Online giant Amazon has stopped selling Tommy Robinson’s anti-Islam book but the far-right activist’s videos are still available on YouTube, which today defended its decision to keep the content.

Robinson’s book, Mohammed’s Koran: Why Muslims Kill For Islam, was removed from Amazon last week following his permanent ban from Facebook and Twitter.

Supporters of the former EDL leader – real-name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – slammed the move as ‘censorship’ with Amazon arguing it was ‘inappropriate content’.

YouTube defends its decision to not ban Tommy Robinson (Picture: PA)

An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the decision to Metro.co.uk and said: ‘As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable.




‘That said, we reserve the right not to sell certain inappropriate content.’

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It came after Robinson, 36, was recently removed from Facebook and Twitter after breaking the sites’ rules on hate speech in posts that called for violence targeted at Muslims.

YouTube has since come under fire for continuing to allow him to post his content on its site.

The site has demonetised Robinson’s channel – as it breaches the company’s advertising policies – meaning the EDL founder cannot earn money from videos.

Tommy Robinson\’s controversial new book

Amazon is no longer selling the book (Screengrab from website)

The platform said its hate speech policies ban content ‘inciting violence or hatred against members’ of a religion and removes videos which violate this.

But Robinson’s videos do not break the rules, according to YouTube, which says his content on the platform differs to that on Facebook or Twitter.

Co-author of the controversial book, Peter McLoughlin, claimed Amazon was ‘siding with Jihadis’ by banning the sale and claimed Hitler’s Mein Kampf and other ‘terrorist manuals’ were still being sold online.

Author McLoughlin wrote on far-right social media site Gab that the ban was equivalent to the ‘Nazis burning books’.

The EDL leader recently was banned on Facebook and Twitter (Picture: PA)

In a separate statement, he said he ‘can’t get my head around it’ and claimed that Amazon had emailed ‘asking to put it into special sales programmes as it was doing so well’.

It comes as the family of a 15-year-old Syrian refugee who was allegedly waterboarded by a school bully sent a letter notifying the former EDL leader of their intention to sue him for defamation.

He posted a series of videos and Facebook posts about the incident claiming the boy, named Jamal, had previously attacked three schoolgirls and a boy.

Robinson is being threatened with libel action by lawyers of the family.

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