Update: Islamic Students reasonable. Islamic Scholar, not so much.
August 7, 2008
According to Gallycat, the students riled up by the threat of Random House’s publication of the Jewel of Medina were planning little more than a publicity campaign to e-mail the publisher and news outlets and so on. Perfectly innocuous stuff in a pluralistic society. Which makes Random House look like a bunch of wusses, and makes Professor Denise Spellberg’s frantic warnings about threats to Random House’s staff and property look even more like disingenuous bigotry, to put it kindly.
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must beat stupid out of skull before it takes hold.
Ah, that’s better. Say, anybody at Random House ever hear of a book called “The Satanic Verses” by this wanker Salman Rushdie. Yeah, it was a real non-seller. Caused Viking to become a smoking hole in the ground. Just never went anywhere. Whole civilizations were overthrown because of it’s publication.
I guess I shouldn’t criticize as I removed some pejoratives (used by characters in dialog, dialog I researched to get the terms right) from a short story before submitting it recently. But that was because of the whole Helix kurfuffle.
The real stupidity is watching the whole internet game of telephone. This story is propagating like wildfire, and of course Spellberg’s alarmism is being taken at face value and most of the stories are assuming that there was some actual terrorist threat against Random House. Fact checking anyone? *headdesk*
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