Because the banning of books at a literary festival is not very literary or festival like.
A bit like the Nazi and Soviet 'realist' styles of Art and the separating out of 'degenerate' art.
I criticize it from an Artistic standpoint not a geographical one.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."