[the invisib1e hand]

fools. it was a guaranteed gazillion seller.

[QBFimi]

If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security. Ezra Taft Benson - An Enemy Hath Done This

[Charlespg]

The “credible” source was one Denise Spellberg, a University of Texas academic who, on receipt of Jones’ galleys, started tattling like a six-year old to Muslims

Sounds like this was done to deliberately sabatoge the book

[Cicero]

From her website in the Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, in case it gets lost:

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Spellberg, Denise
Associate Professor
Office: GAR 0.138
Office Hours: Spring 2008: TBA
Phone:512-475-7202
dams@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, 1989, Columbia University

Research interests:
Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.

Courses taught:
History of the Middle East from 570 to 1453, Gender in Islamic History, Islamic Spain and North Africa, Islam in Europe and America, Islamic Historiography.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: Middle East

Thematic Field(s): Gender, Sexuality and Family, Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, Race, Ethnicity and Nation, Religion and Culture

Recent Publications:
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of `A’isha bint Abi Bakr (Columbia University Press, 1994); “Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve: Menstruation and the Demonization of Motherhood,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (1996): 305-324; “Inventing Matamoras: Gender and the Forgotten Islamic Past in the United States of America,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25 (2004): 148-164; “Could a Muslim Be President? An Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Debate,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006): 485-506.

[Revolting cat!]

Denise Spellberg (There is plenty more if you google her name.)

[Revolting cat!]

She's... somewhere in there.

[Southern Partisan]

Random House is a business, not a government, therefore not censorship.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

A simple solution for the author would be to change the setting slightly and give the characters new names. If she was witty, she could even make them improbably Jewish.

Then, if criticized, she could say to her critics: “The characters are Jews! How dare you call Mohammed a Jew! Muslims should make a death fatwa against you for calling Mohammed a Jew!”

[weegee]

Bet the commie librarians in the ALA won’t include this title among those of this year’s “banned book week”.

[Cacique]

btt

[redpoll]

So another inch of ground is gained in the war between Islam and the West. All they had to do this time was threaten violence instead of actually going out and committing violence.

Slowly, at a glacial pace, we are accepting the position of dhimmi to our Islamic rulers. Here a publishing house has decided to reject centuries of free and open expression and speech from the mere hint of violence.

Islam is in the struggle for world domination to win; we are a tired civilization willing to give up our treasured traditions for the hope of a few quiet moments. Fortunately, the Chinese and Indians might be willing to stand up for their own traditions better than we are, and they’ll have no problems dealing with these thugs in a straightforward, even brutal, manner. It’s either that or a long, long dark age for humanity. However, it seems clear that the West isn’t up to the fight.

[SunkenCiv]

[self-ping]

[americanophile]

cowards