One of the largest publishing houses in America is has called off
the publication of a romanticized book about the prophet Mohammad's favorite wife, six year old Aisha, for fear it would offend Muslims.
Random House can't publish a book - a stupid book - but that's not the point. This is the end of free speech as we know it. This is our core freedom. It should be frontpage news.
It pains me, but does not surprise me, that a dhimmi Jew led the charge to ban the book.
Read
the article (check out how the Asra Nomani who penned the WSJ,
describes Mohammad's favorite wife as "young" and she's on our side (in this).
Sahih Muslim, Book 031, Number 5981:
'A'isha
reported that she used to play with dolls in the presence of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and when her playmates came to her
they left (the house) because they felt shy of Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him), whereas Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
sent them to he.
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 73, Number 151:
Narrated 'Aisha:
I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah's Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for 'Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, wo had not yet reached the age of puberty.) (Fateh-al-Bari page 143, Vol.13)
At least Random House was honest about why they would not be
publishing it, fear of Islamic violence as opposed to the mainstream
media's spineless excuses for not publishing the Danish cartoons. They
claimed those harmless, innocuous cartoons were "offensive", when in
fact the media feared for their lives.
You Still Can't Write
About Muhammad
By ASRA Q. NOMANI, WSJ
Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a
racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife of the prophet Muhammad. Ms.
Jones learned Arabic, studied scholarly works about Aisha's life, and came to
admire her protagonist as a woman of courage. When Random House bought her novel
last year in a $100,000, two-book deal, she was ecstatic. This past spring, she
began plans for an eight-city book tour after the Aug. 12 publication date of
"The Jewel of Medina" -- a tale of lust, love and intrigue in the prophet's
harem.
It's not going to happen: In May, Random House abruptly called
off publication of the book. The series of events that torpedoed this novel are
a window into how quickly fear stunts intelligent discourse about the Muslim
world.
Random House feared the book would become a new "Satanic Verses,"
the Salman Rushdie novel of 1988 that led to death threats, riots and the murder
of the book's Japanese translator, among other horrors.
In an interview about
Ms. Jones's novel, Thomas Perry, deputy publisher at Random House Publishing
Group, said that it "disturbs us that we feel we cannot publish it right now."
He said that after sending out advance copies of the novel, the company received
"from credible and unrelated sources, cautionary advice not only that the
publication of this book might be offensive to some in the Muslim community, but
also that it could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment."
"small, radical segment" -- I guess that's a matter of perspective. How many millions is considered small?
This saga upsets me as a Muslim -- and as a writer who believes
that fiction can bring Islamic history to life in a uniquely captivating and
humanizing way. "I'm devastated," Ms. Jones told me after the book got spiked,
adding, "I wanted to honor Aisha and all the wives of Muhammad by giving voice
to them, remarkable women whose crucial roles in the shaping of Islam have so
often been ignored -- silenced -- by historians." Last month, Ms. Jones signed a
termination agreement with Random House, so her literary agent could shop the
book to other publishers.
Like I said a very stupid book. She wanted to honor "all the wives of Muhammad" - yeah, the whole nursery school. Sheesh.
This time, the instigator of the trouble wasn't a radical Muslim
cleric, but an American academic. In April, looking for endorsements, Random
House sent galleys to writers and scholars, including Denise Spellberg, an
associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas in Austin. Ms.
Jones put her on the list because she read Ms. Spellberg's book, "Politics,
Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr."
dhimmi Jew.
But Ms. Spellberg wasn't a fan of Ms. Jones's book. On April 30,
Shahed Amanullah, a guest lecturer in Ms. Spellberg's classes and the editor of
a popular Muslim Web site, got a frantic call from her. "She was upset," Mr.
Amanullah recalls. He says Ms. Spellberg told him the novel "made fun of Muslims
and their history," and asked him to warn Muslims.
In an interview, Ms. Spellberg told me the novel is a "very ugly,
stupid piece of work." The novel, for example, includes a scene on the night
when Muhammad consummated his marriage with Aisha: "the pain of consummation
soon melted away. Muhammad was so gentle. I hardly felt the scorpion's sting. To
be in his arms, skin to skin, was the bliss I had longed for all my life."
Raping a 9 year old described as "the pain of a scorpion's sting"? I am going to vomit.
Says
Ms. Spellberg: [...] "I don't have a problem with
historical fiction. I do have a problem with the deliberate misinterpretation of
history. You can't play with a sacred history and turn it into soft core
pornography."
Rape - sacred history.
After he got the call from Ms. Spellberg, Mr. Amanullah dashed
off an email to a listserv of Middle East and Islamic studies graduate students,
acknowledging he didn't "know anything about it [the book]," but telling them,
"Just got a frantic call from a professor who got an advance copy of the
forthcoming novel, 'Jewel of Medina' -- she said she found it incredibly
offensive." He added a write-up about the book from the Publishers Marketplace,
an industry publication.
Frantic dhimmi Jew panicing in service to her master. I am going to vomit.
The next day, a blogger known as Shahid Pradhan posted Mr.
Amanullah's email on a Web site for Shiite Muslims -- "Hussaini Youth" -- under
a headline, "upcoming book, 'Jewel of Medina': A new attempt to slander the
Prophet of Islam." Two hours and 28 minutes after that, another person by the
name of Ali Hemani proposed a seven-point strategy to ensure "the writer
withdraws this book from the stores and apologise all the muslims across the
world."
Meanwhile back in New York City, Jane Garrett, an editor at
Random House's Knopf imprint, dispatched an email on May 1 to Knopf executives,
telling them she got a phone call the evening before from Ms. Spellberg (who
happens to be under contract with Knopf to write "Thomas Jefferson's
Qur'an.")
Uh, a dhimmi Jew peddling a soft of the Barbary wars. Can hardly wait for that historical revisionist text.
"She thinks there is a very real possibility of major danger for
the building and staff and widespread violence," Ms. Garrett wrote. "Denise says
it is 'a declaration of war . . . explosive stuff . . . a national security
issue.'
A harlequin novel becomes a "a national security issue". We're screwed.
UPDATE: Debbie Schlussel has the dirt on that dhimmi Jew Spellberg:
And there is more we must consider about this disturbing case. Denise
Spellberg is Exhibit A of why I tell Americans not to rely on the Jews for
their terrorism analysis. Far too many of my fellow co-religionists-in-name-only
bend over backward for our enemies in the "Religion of Peace." They lend them
legitimacy, a legitimacy we cannot afford to let stand.
Spellberg is a far-left Jewish woman, who has devoted her life to spreading
the BS propaganda that Islam is peace, that America has a "forgotten" Muslim
history (no, we don't), etc.
She is the one who started these terrorist threats on their path. She is the
one who warned Random House that they'd all be blown to Kingdom Come if the book
was published. Why is she not being prosecuted? If I contacted Random House and
said that if they published her sleazy "Thomas Jefferson's Koran" lie, that the
building would be blown up and its employees murdered, do you think I'd be free
today? No, I'd be behind bars.
Instead, Ms. Spellberg delivered
a paid lecture sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the
University of Texas, and she is identified
as a faculty member of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies.
Read it all.