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I agree with you inasmuch as I'm not suggesting the DaVinci Code should be shut down. I also agree with you about not wanting to help create buzz for it, I am merely seeking to respond to untruths, whether they are conveyed via fiction or some by other means.

Advertisers spend billions of dollars every year using fictional characters to successfully influence the habits of almost all of us worldwide, unless there is an appropriate response, leaving untruths alone have a way of becoming accepted truths. History is replete with such instances.

I think the main problem is that we live in a self-censoring PC society where the left has a heckler's veto over many things they find offensive. In contrast, those of us on the right can't even engage in debate over attacks on us or our faith without being accused of "censorship".

So Islam is depicted positively in novels and films. On the rare occasion that it isn't, it gets corrected, as in THE SUM OF ALL FEARS, where the movie version changed the novel's bad guys from Middle Eastern terrorists to more politically correct white neo-Nazis. Why is this the case?

It's because unlike passive Christians, Muslims will react violently and even in a murderous manner if anything offends their faith. So Islam has a heckler's veto. Everyone is afraid to offend Muslims, so writers pick on a religion that isn't violent. That's the irony. Christians are constantly depicted in films as being intolerant, conspiratorial, oppressive, and violent, precisely because they aren't any of those things. Thus, Ron Howard & Dan Brown & Co. feel free to smear Christians with the knowledge that no one will murder or beat them up for doing so. In fact, if Christians even mildly protest (which is all they will do), that will be cited as "proof" of Christian intolerance.

Combine that with the fact that it's actually fashionable among the fine wine & limousine crowd to smear Christians, and it becomes pretty tiring for us Christians after a while. We get accused of all sorts of imaginary wrongdoings, precisely because we aren't guilty of them. Meanwhile, those guilty of such wrongdoings get favorable treatment because everyone's afraid of them.

Muslims are thus in a position to veto any criticism of their faith by threatening violence and invoking the protections political correctness provides to every faith except Christianity. Christians, unprotected by PC and almost universally non-violent, are the daily target of accusations of wrongdoing. Then, if we so much as protest these attacks on us, and try to answer them in formal debate, we're accused of not understanding that the attack on us is a work of fiction, or "only a movie", or whatever.

But it gets tiring after a while to be the daily target of the schoolyard bullies who wouldn't dare pick on a faith that's protected by PC ideology, or, even more significantly, which would physically respond.