"feared outbursts of violence"
Posted on 10/09/2009 8:23:19 AM PDT by LSUfan
A German publishing house has decided not to print a novel about an honor killing out of fear it could be read as an insult to Muslims.
Duesseldorf-based publishing house Droste said Tuesday it had canceled the printing of a murder mystery because it contained anti-Islam passages that may have caused a backlash. Droste took the decision after Gabriele Brinkmann, the author of the book "To Whom Honor is Due," refused to change several passages that defamed the Koran.
"We are a publishing house that for the past three generations has issued critical and educational books," Felix Droste, the head of the company, said in an interview with Berlin-based daily taz. "A crime novel that defames Islam and contains xenophobic passages doesn't fit our profile. I don't publish books that hurt the feelings of our fellow citizens. And much less would I do it for the mere provocation."
Critics have accused the publisher of undermining free speech by backing down because of Islamist intimidation; Droste said his company has received threats from far-right groups accusing it of bowing to Islamists.
Brinkmann told German weekly Bild am Sonntag that she deemed it "a scandal, that a publishing house is showing the white feather."
"What on earth is this all about, where are we here? We are in a free country," she said.
Droste has linked the decision to the Prophet Mohammed cartoon row, which was prompted by a Danish newspaper's decision to print a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.
Reprints of the cartoons in 2006 triggered violent protests all over the world that killed more than 50 people. They also sparked a boycott of Danish products and attacks on Danish institutions in Muslim countries.
In Germany, a Berlin opera house in 2006 decided to cancel the Mozart show "Idomeneo," which depicts the severed heads of mythical and religious figures, including Poseidon, Jesus, Buddha and the Prophet Mohammed.
Officials from the opera house feared outbursts of violence similar to those sparked by the Danish cartoon row. The cancellation caused uproar: German Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, who hosted the Islam Conference, harshly criticized the move.
This time, politicians have not yet commented on the decision to cancel the printing of the book.
"feared outbursts of violence"
And the more Muslims who are allowed to immigrate to Western nations, the more common this will become. As Daniel Pipes wrote a few years back: They (the presence of Muslims) "are beginning to change the way we live."
It will only get worse unless we change our policies and the 'leaders' in Western nations begin to address this. Several books have now been deep sixed due to fear of Muslim violence, Harvard (or Yale's) university press published a book about the Scandinavian cartoons without pictures of the cartoons, real life Muslims terrorists become skinheads in Hollywood movies, Madonna canceled a concert in Israel because of threats to her and her children, and on and on.
And how many countless decisions to not write a particular story, or column, or to not say something in public, or produce a particular movie, have been that we never hear about.
It'll only become worse.
They are telling us who they are. We should believe them!
You seem to have a nice collection of appropriate photos, lol. Laugh when you can.
Who’s laughing?
I am, at how plentiful the evidence is for those who only look around a little bit. Morbid humor.
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