The Jewel of Medina and the Cowardly Surrender of Random House
If the passage cited is any indication, the book sounds like cheap, lurid trash. That alone is reason not to publish it.
But that’s not the point: Random House publicly and specifically acknowledged that they decided not to publish it because they were afraid of Muslim violence. That alone is precisely the reason the book should, no, must, be published.
It is beyond pathetic that the author of the book should seek to defend herself by bleating that she was trying to be respectful. Don’t you get it? You’re a kuffar. You don’t have a right to say anything about Islam or its “prophet”. Even Muslims who are judged to have committed blasphemy against Islam are killed out of hand. Why should you, an infidel and a woman, no less, expect any kind of special treatment?
And that academic who tattled about how the book “might be” offensive to Muslims is an absolute disgrace. She should be shamed and pilloried until she begs for mercy and publicly apologizes. She’s nothing but a kapo, selling out her compatriots in order to curry favor with her masters. Disgusting.
Free speech means just that, free speech. If we no longer have the right to say offensive things, we do not have free speech. People need to grow a thicker skin. And anyone who threatens or commits violence because they are “offended” over something that has been said or written should be thrown in jail where they can’t cause trouble for civilized people.
