Showing posts with label "The Jewel of Medina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "The Jewel of Medina. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Firebombs and The Jewel of Medina

Bloody fanatics.

Bastard terrorists are at it again. Have you ever noticed how free speech ends when terror abounds. Now the bloody fanatics are trying to stop THAT book again - by terror.

Contentious book

Police are questioning three men about the firebombing of a British publishing house after declaring it was prepared to publish, The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones. Unless you've had your head buried in the sand, you'll already know the contentious book is about one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad .... So what? Have they never heard of free speech?

The men, aged 40, 22 and 33, were detained on suspicion "of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism." A spokesperson said the police had acquired authorization to hold them without charge until Oct. 5. They should hold them indefinitely!

Firebomb

The suspected terrorists were found outside the north London home of Martin Rynja, managing director of publishers Gibson Square, after the house, which is also the publisher's offices, was set on fire. Thank goodness no one was hurt.

The firebomb was apparently shoved through the letterbox. It's a pity the terrorist's fingers didn't get stuck and burned instead.

The bastards want locking up and the key throwing away.

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Wednesday, 27 August 2008

"The Jewel of Medina" rises from the ashes.


Just when you thought it was over and the dust was settling, "The Jewel of Medina" hits the headlines once more.
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Wow! Some people are suckers for punishment. Talk about living dangerously!

A publisher in Denmark is in talks over purchasing Sherry Jones' “The Jewel of Medina”, a novel about the child bride of Muhammad. It was abandoned by Random House in America and removed from bookshops in Serbia.

I think it’s terrible that art should be suppressed due to pressure from fanatics, but I also have to admit I’m one for treading a safe path. The problem is, free speech ain’t so free after all, not in the real world – take the case of Salman Rushdie. You have to ask yourself, is a story worth risking a life for?

“The Jewel of Medina” is apparently a about Aisha, one of Muhammad's wives, from the age of six to 18 when Muhammad dies. It was originally purchased by Random House US for an advance of $100,000, but put on hold after the publisher was advised by experts that publication was potentially more risky than Salman Rushdie's “The Satanic Verses”.

I wonder if Sherry Jones realised the hornet’s nest she was poking as she struggled to put words together? One thing’s for certain, the publicity has put her in a world-class position for her next offering. You know what they say about no publicity being bad!
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Whether "The Jewel of Medina" is ever available on the market or not, I think I hear best-seller clinking on the horizon. Well done, Sherry, you've achieved what most of us would give our eye-teeth for. Notoriety!