Book by Milo Yiannopoulos will not be published in Australia,by Jason Steger.

A forthcoming memoir by the arch conservative Trump supporter, Milo Yiannopoulos will not be published in Australia.

The Australian division of Simon & Schuster has announced it will not be stocking or distributing physical copies of Yiannopolouos’s Dangerous, described as “a substantive examination” of the issues surrounding political correctness and free speech. …

Dangerous is due to be published in the United States on June 13. The decision by the local division means books can only be purchased by customers or booksellers via the United States through Amazon or a local supplier. …

Jon Page, owner of Pages & Pages, Mosman, and the online retailer Boomerang Books, became the first Australian bookseller to publicly declare he would not stock or promote the book by Yiannopoulos, a mouthpiece of the hard right and a figure of controversy for his anti-immigration, anti-Islam stand.

“The election and inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States has seen a resurgence of fascism and right wing rhetoric the likes of which I didn’t think we would ever see again,” Page told Fairfax Media on Thursday.

“I do not agree with Milo Yiannopoulos’ far right views and don’t believe there is any benefit in helping share his views in our society.

“While I am a passionate believer in free speech and would never ban a book, views such as Milo Yiannopoulos should not be allowed to take root in our society.

Pathetic: Sydney bookseller bans Milo Yiannopoulos, by Andrew Bolt.

Pathetic because no bookseller should fear free speech, and because Page totally mischaracterises Milo.

If Page actually read or listened to Milo, rather than reflexively ban his new book (Dangerous) even before it’s published, he might learn that Milo is the antithesis of the hard right, to which the militant Islam he opposes actually belongs.

Indeed, as a gay of Jewish background Milo actually fits the stereotype – and too often the reality – of the victim of hard right forces, which alone should alert Page to the truth.

Milo is actually more a libertarian. He fears Islam because of its preaching against gays and Jews, and because of what we see now being done in its name: gays thrown off buildings by Islamists and Jews persecuted. Or is Page indifferent to that?