[gridlock]

The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee has said Arabs in the book are portrays as ‘‘backward ... cowardly, and barbaric.''

Are the Arab characters in the book backward, cowardly and barbaric? It is permissable to have negative characters in literature, isn't it?

You don't see Britons wanting to ban Dickens because Scrooge and Fagin are vicious and mean, do you?

[Clemenza]

Remember that Fagin was Jewish. I've never heard about the Jews trying to ban Oliver Twist, though.