hmm....the arabs, again. 
Posted on 08/18/2008 7:39:50 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A US publisher has cancelled the publication of a novel about the youngest wife of the Muslim prophet Mohammed amid a growing controversy over the book.
The Jewel of Medina, a debut novel by journalist Sherry Jones about Mohammed's child bride A'isha had been due for release in the US last week.
But publisher Random House released her from the contract amid the controversy and her agent said Jones was now looking for a publisher in another country to pick up the rights.
"Random House made the decision to cancel its US publication of the novel The Jewel of Medina after much deliberation and with great reluctance,'' the publisher said.
"The decision was based on advice from scholars of Islam, among several creditable sources, that publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community and could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment.''
Reports yesterday said a Serbian distributor, BeoBooks, had ordered bookshops to remove from bookshelves some 1000 printed copies of a local edition of the novel under pressure from Islamic leaders.
Mufti Muamer Zukorlic, one of Serbia's main Islamic leaders, had compared the book with the controversial Danish cartoons that sparked Muslim outrage and violent protests when published in 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Just because she got married at 6 and consummated at 9?
Sheesh. People need to be more accepting of pedophilia.
< / moral relativism>
that's yer big clue.
What are the chances of getting the search function back???
Islam gets another notch in the stock of their AK-47.
Added to the pulping of “Alms For Jihad”...a well-researched and
scholarly work I got to read before the destruction order was issued.
I did NOT hear a SINGLE report about this in the MSM of the USA.
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3896
They could not decide to classify it as fiction or nonfiction?
Three cheers for Random house! They just ensured to best pre-publishing promotion campaign ever seen since the Ayatollah’s threats to Salmon Rushdie. This book will be a runaway best seller... guaranteed.
hmm....the arabs, again.
Random House did not want to get busted for publishing child porn.
Just as well, I’d like Kitty Kelly to write that book.
The function works.
Random, as in....Random House.
Search for “Random” in titles.
Would the publisher hesitate for a single second to do a similar book on Mary? Or on Christ? No.
Proof positive that our cultural elites are cowards that not only hate their own culture, they kowtow to other cultures.
So, it’s a stock story?
btt
What??? We can't read a book about Meeechelle Oblahma? Why that's censorship I tells ya and I'm NOT proud of my country either.....ehehehehe!
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