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Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial Satanic Verses, said that he was disappointed in his publisher Random House for pulling an upcoming novel about the Prophet Mohammed. “This is censorship by fear and it sets a very bad precedent indeed," said Rushdie. The Jewel of Medina is the debut novel from Spokane, Washington's Sherry Jones. It's a first-person narrative of Aisha, one of Mohammed's wives, and includes a mild account of the first time the two have sex. Random House pulled the book when an early release of the novel began to elicit fears that their could be a similar violent response as the ones after the publication of Danish cartoons of Muhammad in 2005.
Salman Rushdie Calls Out Random House for Censorship
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not exactly NY news, but it's one more reason to hate hamas terrorists and the fascists in their mid
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I am so glad he has spoken up for her, a boycott of RH is in order. This is disgusting, and let us not forget that Borders Books engaged in the same nonsense when the cartoonists were being slaughtered in Denmark.
Let's hope a publisher with guts gets the book. If Rushdie is right and Random House turned it down because of their Islamaphobia, then the parent company Bertelsmann, AG, has a policy that needs to be explored and explained to their American readers.
This yellow streak is a European thing and they constantly cave to their Muslim minorities.
Yeah, #2, the europeans should stop "caving to their Muslim minorities": on top of denying them citizenship, refusing to hire them for any but the most menial jobs, ghettoizing them in public housing blocks, mocking them in the popular culture, and marginalizing their numbers politically, the euros should also publish more books about Muhammed's sex life. By the way, the Germans tend to be skittish about 'third rail' topics ever since they saw many of their cities firebombed to the ground.
Shouldnt this guy be dead by now? I thought he had a price on his head? Hello, Iran?
The Iranians really don't know how to put a contract on a guy. Really, if they can't take out one old guy for the last what?....20 yrs how can they even build a nuclear warhead? No wonder the Greeks trounced their ass with only a 300 men.
Gee Nanny you touched all the bases in your diatribe, however, the inmates shouldn't run the asylum.
Ok, here's a thought: Rushdie should have this book published in China. Let the fanatical Islamists triangulate on that.
Yeah, #Nanny, the europeans should definitely:
stop sucking up to their Muslim minorities which will be majorities soon:
stop giving them citizenship;
refuse to hire them for any jobs;
offer them free tickets back to koranustan, instead of allowing them to take over subsidized public housing blocks where they protect terrorists;
keep mocking them in the popular culture;
start marginalizing their numbers politically.
The euros should also publish more books about Muhammed's sex life and the terrorism endorsed in the koran.
By the way, the Germans tend to be skittish about 'third rail' topics ever since they saw many of their cities firebombed to the ground, after they wiped out, what 8-12 million people...
There, we fixed it for you.