The Jewel of Medina and the Cowardly Surrender of Random House
I’ve been horrified at the “success” Islamist repressive tactics have had on western writing of anything to do with Islam.
British Muslims obtained a court ruling against Rachel Ehrenfeld’s book (Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It). Too much truth for those old boys.
Luckily, efforts to enforce the British judgment in the US were rejected by the state of New York.
Then there are the well known cases of the cartoons and the outright persecution of Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn.
(The big Islamic objection to The Satanic Verses, when Khomeini put out the stupid fatwa, had something to do with giving credence to female spirits or angels in the book. I agree it was, largely, unreadable.)
Bottom line, Islamism and freedom of speech are mutually exclusive.
Even the infamous Mohammed, I’m sure, wouldn’t be quite so narrow minded as the cadre of marginally intelligent fascists that purport to speak for him today.
