Don't be rude to rude people.

What did you expect? Courage?

RopMA

Look on the brights side.

Said alway complained that the West looked at the Levant as "exotic," etc. Sexualizing and the like.

Now we won't.

They shouldn't print 1001 Arabian Nights then either, I suppose.

Pocket change to a Saudi Prince...

House of War.

House of Islam.

House of Random obviously does not want to be in House of War.

As we learned in the Wall Street Journal today, the company has decided not to publish Sherry Jones’ historical novel “The Jewel of Medina” about Mohammed’s child bride Aisha.

Embarrassment Will Bring Victory.

What? She's going to give new meaning to the term Pedophile?

She should have written a book about Safiya, the Jewish woman he "married" while still soaked in the gore of her husband, brothers, and father.

It is this kind of PC cowardice that is doing the most damage to the United States. We have been in a frightening decline freedom wise ever since speaking the truth became "mean" or "insulting". I will never purchase a Random House publication again, unless they find their balls.

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 Spellberg felt would be angry with the work.

UGH!

Like I said a few days ago, it's NEVER THE ONES WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE OFFENDED ACTUALLY BEING OFFENDED.

Enough of this "being offended for other people" BS!

Do you actually think Joos gave a shit that there wasn't a Menorah next to the Christmas tree in effen KENTUCKY?!?!?!?

re: #9 Mardukhai

The Devil made him do it.

"one Denise Spellberg"

IN a story i read, this academic was saying that the author should not mock a religious tradition, or some such nonsense. It's amazing to watch the university establishment suddently discover religious sensitivity. Ms. Spellberg thinks she can buy fatwah insurance; she can't.

I'm buying stock in the bus-manufacturing company.

Books which Random House did choose to publish:

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

The Audacity of Hope, Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

This is what happens when formally American Companies are now owned by overseas conglomerates. I guess this Bud ain't gonna be for you much longer!

The question I would have now is will they allow her to take the book to another publisher, or will they retain the contract and just not publish?

I've worked at Random House over the years. I even got a glimpse of Salman Rushdie's top secret tour schedule for the book that followed The Satanic Verses. The security and cost involved was something out of a 007 film. In back doors, private jets, in through kitchens out through dry cleaners.

They are caving in to thuggish threats and I'm pretty disgusted by this lastest BS. REALLY DISGUSTED!

Denise Spellberg is a rabble-rousing busybody.

CHicks tend to over-react.

Doubleday who published Nancy Pelosi's latest literay bomb, like Random House is owned by Bertlesman.

Well it looks like the religion of pieces still hates the truth, and the truth has a price.

Sigh....

re: #16 Nevergiveup

This is what happens when formally American Companies are now owned by overseas conglomerates. I guess this Bud ain't gonna be for you much longer!

This Stella's For You!

They released the following statement:

"It is out of respect and tolerance that we freely choose not to publish... OMG, is that a knife?! We said we'd obey! Please don't hurt me! Oh, my mistake. Just some light reflecting off the mic. Heh. Now where was I?"

PIMF
Literary!

oy!

re: #24 jpkoch

This Stella's For You!

Give me a Sam Adams or Coors!

re: #11 Ben Hur

All the Mexicans I know absolutely love Speedy Gonzalez. But others were offended for them and he is all but gone now.

re: #21 Ben Hur

CHicks tend to over-react.

LOL, what an idiot. If I did that ever ytime I hit a bird, I would be locked in a padded room.

re: #18 NoSubmission

I was on vacation last week so I missed your recent posting: Stop the War On Iran Protest Times Square

Great job, as usual.

re: #16 Nevergiveup

This is what happens when formally American Companies are now owned by overseas conglomerates. I guess this Bud ain't gonna be for you much longer!

Bad example. Overseas influence (Belgian, IIRC) could do nothing but help Anheuser Busch.

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Perhaps we should, I don't know, write them a strongly worded letter. Or decapitate some of their board members. Whichever will get the most results.

re: #29 CapeCoddah

LOL, what an idiot. If I did that ever ytime I hit a bird, I would be locked in a padded room.

Personally. I think padded rooms have gotten a bum rap!

Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr

This is the name of Spellberg's book.

SHE OBVIOUSLY DID IT TO CUT OFF ANY COMPETITION.

re: #28 Silhouette

You can no longer find all of the great old WB Bugs Bunny cartoons, they are considered politically incorrect, violent and racist. Such a shame. I let the granddaughter watch the ones I can find on youtube.

re: #29 CapeCoddah

LOL, what an idiot. If I did that ever ytime I hit a bird, I would be locked in a padded room.

Massachusetts should pay you to hit those rats-with-wings called seagulls.

re: #31 CyanSnowHawk

Bad example. Overseas influence (Belgian, IIRC) could do nothing but help Anheuser Busch.

Now batting 4th for The St. Louis Belgian waffles?

You would think all these publishers were based in Canada or the UK. Sigh.

Or she could be like this lady:

RAINBOWS ARE A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!

What do they put in our water that you see RAINBOWS!?!?!?!

OT

Wafa Sultan is on video at the top of jihadwatch.org
and the video is good. Maybe you want to display it
here.

re: #30 Ringo the Gringo

I was on vacation last week so I missed your recent posting: Stop the War On Iran Protest Times Square

Great job, as usual.

Hey Ringo! Hope you had a nice Obama-free vacation.
Thanks a lot! some good shots there if I don't say so myself.

re: #37 Nevergiveup

Now batting 4th for The St. Louis Belgian waffles?

Mmmm! Belgian waffles.

re: #36 Ford_Prefect
Those bastards take out windshields. I have a younger sister who has never been too bright, in fact she is as dumb as a stump. She used to call them "Eagles from the dump".

“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”

~ Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

;

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

~ George Orwell

re: #37 Nevergiveup

Now batting 4th for The St. Louis Belgian waffles?

What was your point? I got distracted by the food reference.

re: #34 Ben Hur

Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint Abi Bakr

This is the name of Spellberg's book.

SHE OBVIOUSLY DID IT TO CUT OFF ANY COMPETITION.

I thought this what quite the revelation.

While I'm not in agreement with Random House's reasons for not publishing, having read the WSJ article yesterday (I get it at the office), I'm rather glad this piece of pedophilia soft porn isn't hitting the market. As a woman, I can't imagine any nine year old girl considering having the experience of her hymen (at least) broken by a 50+ year old man as "bliss." *shudder*

(Sorry for the horrible visual)

mac :]

re: #45 CyanSnowHawk

What was your point? I got distracted by the food reference.

I never really have a point. Who's on first?

re: #18 NoSubmission

I've worked at Random House over the years. I even got a glimpse of Salman Rushdie's top secret tour schedule for the book that followed The Satanic Verses. The security and cost involved was something out of a 007 film. In back doors, private jets, in through kitchens out through dry cleaners.

They are caving in to thuggish threats and I'm pretty disgusted by this lastest BS. REALLY DISGUSTED!

i'm disgusted too.
this is how it starts. the intimidation and fear so that we slowly begin to give up our own rights, privileges and traditions. it is easier to stop them now before we lose ground and the ropma grows stronger.
they have no intention of ending their demands until they dominate completely.

re: #39 Ben Hur

Or she could be like this lady:

RAINBOWS ARE A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!

What do they put in our water that you see RAINBOWS!?!?!?!

Whatever it is, she's had too much of it.

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

Aishas to Aishas
Dust to dust
If the liberals don't get you
The Mohammedans must lust.

What we need is an effective response. A way to get the product out and allow the lady to make her money that cuts the dinosaur toadies out.

re: #48 Nevergiveup

I never really have a point. Who's on first?

I don't know.

To put it simply, 9/11 WORKED.

re: #47 macbrooks

I've not read the book, so I can't really comment on it, but that is quite clearly what Mohammedanism teaches about Aisha and Mohammed. Thus, we refer to him as the Pedophile Prophet

re: #53 CyanSnowHawk

I don't know.

3rd base?

Let me get this straight...there have been no threats, just "warnings" that threats might be coming?

Sounds like the sick professor, Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas in Austin is the real villain here.

The Religion of Perpetual Threats.

re: #47 macbrooks

I agree with you -- seems like a really odd and disgusting topic.

Weird that RH would cave like this when they signed Salman Rushie again for another book.

And reprinted the paperback of The Satanic Verses too.

re: #54 Ben Hur

It has so far. I wouldn't exactly want to bet on it as a long term policy, though. We'll get tired of it sooner or later.

re: #41 NoSubmission

Hey Ringo! Hope you had a nice Obama-free vacation.
Thanks a lot! some good shots there if I don't say so myself.

Had a very nice 8 days in Kauai.

No TV. No Internet. Just peace and quiet with the wife and kid, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

re: #47 macbrooks

Point noted. Hate to sound like the ACLU but if we let them set the agenda with the unworthy cases then what happens once the precedents are set?

re: #62 Iron Fist

It has so far. I wouldn't exactly want to bet on it as a long term policy, though. We'll get tired of it sooner or later.

I'd say we're already used to it.

And caving.

re: #62 Iron Fist

It has so far. I wouldn't exactly want to bet on it as a long term policy, though. We'll get tired of it sooner or later.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Come on now. Let's get this tempest in a teapot over with so American publishers can get back to bashing the Catholic Church. We all know that takes real courage. And besides it is so cutting edge.

Surely Regnery or whoever published "Unifit For Command" can take up this "controversial" subject.

* * *

On a related note, German publishers run scared and German bakeries are giving way to Turkish bakeries--in Germany!

500,000 tons of Turkish bread are consumed (weekly? daily? saw this yesterday and forgot already)....need to fact check, but this ain't your Disneyworld Olde Europe, Toto!

No Conquistadores left to fight the Reconquista.

Smart Bitches Trashy Books quote: Random House paid a $100k advance for the work but when UT Professor Denise Spellberg read an ARC, she denounced the book as a “very ugly, stupid piece of work” (note to authors: Don’t ask her for a cover quote. Ever.) and said, “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.”

Wait, wait, before you pound your head on your desk, there’s more. Ms. Spellberg alerted Shahed Amunullah, a guest lecturer and editor of altmuslim.com, who spread the word to a listserv of Muslim graduate students. From there that email appeared the website “Hussaini Youth,” and within three hours, a person published “a seven-point strategy to ensure ‘the writer withdraws this book from the stores and apologise all the muslims across the world.’”

Pre-emptive surrender, I see.

Rage Boy has issued a statement:

"Damn, oh, and death to America anyway"

Ah, now the fun starts -The Battle of the Post-Modern Feminists vs The ROP. I wonder how many of the ladies are being fitted for burkas?

re: #61 buzzsawmonkey

Hey Buzz, any idea where to find those cartoons for sale? And thanks for the info, I did not realize those things.

re: #58 Opinionated

The Religion of Perpetual Threats.

The religion that IS a perpetual threat.

Random House and Denise Spellberg: fucking Whores of the Caliphate.

re: #61 buzzsawmonkey

And Disney allows one of their greatest to rot.

re: #72 jpkoch
It's about time too! All feminists should be horrified by Islam, not make excuses for it.

re: #66 Ben Hur

That's not the way the US has ever done things, though. we let slavery fester for over 70 years. We didn't get into WWI until it was almost over, we would have stayed out of WWII longer if the Japanese hadn't gotten impatient.

The American people take a lot to get them angry enough to do something. Right now Mohammedans go about their business, calling for the Death of the Great Satan, as though we will actually permit this to happen. And they have some reason to think we will, given that the Democratic Party does want to let it happen.

The Democrats also wanted the South to secceede. That worked out for them.

You and I see the existiential threat of Islam, but the average American doesn't. Yet. I think that will change, probably violently, over the next ten to twenty years. It could happen sooner if the Mohammedans get impatient. Another big terrorist attack like 9-11 could do it.

re: #72 jpkoch

Ah, now the fun starts -The Battle of the Post-Modern Feminists vs The ROP. I wonder how many of the ladies are being fitted for burkas?

Hey, as long as they don't have to wear a bra under them, they're down with that.

re: #76 Mars Needs Neocons

And Disney allows one of their greatest to rot.

But you can see a Chevy Chase paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="[Link: www.youtube.com...] type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object" target="_blank">version of it here.

Only $100k, for two books? They were already stiffing her.

re: #80 jpkoch

But you can see a Chevy Chase paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramembed src="[Link: www.youtube.com...] type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/object" target="_blank">version of it here.

Oh, I have a copy of the original on DVD, but it was never officially released.

Chevy Chase, used to like him, now he's just a deranged, mindless clown who fancies himself a political expert.

Ball-less wonders.

re: #47 macbrooks

While I'm not in agreement with Random House's reasons for not publishing, having read the WSJ article yesterday (I get it at the office), I'm rather glad this piece of pedophilia soft porn isn't hitting the market. As a woman, I can't imagine any nine year old girl considering having the experience of her hymen (at least) broken by a 50+ year old man as "bliss." *shudder*

Since the WSJ doesn't say anything about Aisha having been 9 years old when her marriage to Moho was "consummated," I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the book didn't mention this, either -- but rather added a few years to Aisha's age in order to make the whole thing seem less gross. (It would be quite ironic if this is indeed the case -- since the Islamic history professor would thus have succeeded in obstructing the publication of a book that whitewashes an ugly detail of Islamic tradition... in order to avoid offending Muslims!)

re: #57 Maximu§

Let me get this straight...there have been no threats, just "warnings" that threats might be coming?

Sounds like the sick professor, Denise Spellberg, an associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Texas in Austin is the real villain here.

Ah, more crap from the liberal looneyland of Austin.

re: #84 buzzsawmonkey

Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
If there's a whisper of racism, we'll lock it away
Never again will it see light of day
Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay

We'll sock it away to moulder
It's the truth--it's actual
The culture ne'er will get it back-tual
Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Gutting history to get a PC Okay!

I think the greatest shame of this is the fact that the show isn't racist. I guess they're offended at the idea that it shows a slave relationship in a non-violent horrifying light. Slavery was horrifying, but as far as I've read in history, not every slave owner was a monster. In fact many of them paid slaves a certain amount in order to help them pay their freedom.

I think that the people in Song of the South were portrayed with a dignity and style that we could really use in todays film. The slaves in the movie had more dignity that any character in any film right now.

Plus the music and stories of the slave era shouldn't be allowed to just vanish because of some PC bullshit.

re: #36 Ford_Prefect
Hey!
The seagull or flying rat is Utah's State Bird!
I shit you not!
No pun intended!

re: #47 macbrooks

While I'm not in agreement with Random House's reasons for not publishing, having read the WSJ article yesterday (I get it at the office), I'm rather glad this piece of pedophilia soft porn isn't hitting the market. As a woman, I can't imagine any nine year old girl considering having the experience of her hymen (at least) broken by a 50+ year old man as "bliss." *shudder*

(Sorry for the horrible visual)

mac :]

Yeah, I seriously doubt she was happy about it, but then she had no say in the matter.

re: #90 Ward Cleaver

Yeah, I seriously doubt she was happy about it, but then she had no say in the matter.

Suffering in powerless silence is the lot of all Muslim females, of any age.

re: #84 buzzsawmonkey

Buzz,
The Scientists are going to be scratchin they're head a long time once you donate your mind to them!
LOL
Your killin me!

re: #89 reloadingisnotahobby

Hey!
The seagull or flying rat is Utah's State Bird!
I shit you not!
No pun intended!

There's a SpongeBob Squarepants episode where the squirrel, Sandy, calls two seagulls "rats with wings" (there's irony for ya), then proceeds to beat them up.

There is nothing that shows us more clearly the alternate universe that Muslims inhabit, than the veneration that Muhammed elicits in Muslims.

To us in the West, this man was a huckster, pedophile, savage murderer of Jews and others, unashamed plagiarist of Jewish and Christian concepts, and possible psychotic.

To Muslims, Muhammed was the "perfect man"

[Link: www.ummah.net...]

re: #93 Ward Cleaver
You watch Spongebob?
My wife won't let me!
Grand son lives with us!
Drat!

.......Or South Park!

re: #89 reloadingisnotahobby

Hey!
The seagull or flying rat is Utah's State Bird!
I shit you not!
No pun intended!

Isn't the mosquito Alaska's state bird? I once knew an older gentleman that had an embroidered patch that said that, on a pair of coveralls he owned.

............Or Girls Gone Wild................

re: #95 reloadingisnotahobby

You watch Spongebob?
My wife won't let me!
Grand son lives with us!
Drat!

Yeah, I really like it. Plenty of humor in it that's way over kids' heads. Plus the fact that Sandy is from Texas, and she doesn't put up with any crap.

re: #95 reloadingisnotahobby

You watch Spongebob?
My wife won't let me!
Grand son lives with us!
Drat!

My kids love it. I think it gets really stupid sometimes. Only current cartoons I like are Danny Phantom, Fairly Oddparents, Phineas and Ferb, and Jimmy Neutron.

re: #97 Ward Cleaver

If they were just a bit bigger the FFA would require
tail numbers!

re: #101 reloadingisnotahobby

OOPS!
I meant FAA.............

re: #102 reloadingisnotahobby

OOPS!
I meant FAA.............

I knew that.

re: #103 Ward Cleaver

I knew that.

The Future Farmers don't regulate aircraft?

/

re: #100 Mars Needs Neocons

My kids love it. I think it gets really stupid sometimes. Only current cartoons I like are Danny Phantom, Fairly Oddparents, Phineas and Ferb, and Jimmy Neutron.

We may not being watching them much longer. My girls (four, six, and eight) watch a lot of Disney Channel, and some of the shows are too mature for them. Heck, Hannah Montana (whom they love) is supposed to have a boyfriend in the upcoming season. That's sealed the deal for June, and she wants the cable disconnected.

re: #104 Mars Needs Neocons

The Future Farmers don't regulate aircraft?

/

Not even ag planes.

re: #105 Ward Cleaver

We may not being watching them much longer. My girls (four, six, and eight) watch a lot of Disney Channel, and some of the shows are too mature for them. Heck, Hannah Montana (whom they love) is supposed to have a boyfriend in the upcoming season. That's sealed the deal for June, and she wants the cable disconnected.

Ouch. The boyfriend thing isn't an issue for me, but I can see why it would be with girls those ages. Luckily my 4 and 6 year olds are boys. /

re: #106 Ward Cleaver

Crop dusters!

Contact info for Random House for those who wish to express their dissatisfaction, here.

re: #106 Ward Cleaver

Not even ag planes.

How about mail planes?

re: #108 cookielady

The requirements to fly those is a minimum of three loose screws!

re: #112 reloadingisnotahobby

Bwah!

I'm not sure we should be throwing up such a fuss about this book. I mean it is abhorrent that censorship like this is allowed, but we actually don't know what was in this book. It could have been pornography, it could have been a whitewash.

But, I guess the one thing we should keep in mind is that no organization should act this way in the face of Islamorage.

Yesterday’s Jawa Report mentions and discusses this little tidbit about how Sherry Jones describes Aisha losing her virginity to Muhammad.

Did Sherry Jones really write this?

Roger L. Simon seems to miss this quote entirely.

Perhaps Random House is rethinking their position for the imagination of Sherry Jones.

Perhaps more than just the historical events are pornographic.

re: #47 macbrooks

While I'm not in agreement with Random House's reasons for not publishing, having read the WSJ article yesterday (I get it at the office), I'm rather glad this piece of pedophilia soft porn isn't hitting the market. As a woman, I can't imagine any nine year old girl considering having the experience of her hymen (at least) broken by a 50+ year old man as "bliss." *shudder*

(Sorry for the horrible visual)

mac :]

My thoughts exactly Mac. This is how this dimwit author described Muh's rape of a 9 year old child: ""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."

Given what happened to the "Satanic Verses" translators (they were killed), I can't say I entirely blame this lot for their apparent cravenness.

Still, this is like "high noon". If everyone bands together, nobody will get hurt.

re: #114 Mars Needs Neocons

I'm not sure we should be throwing up such a fuss about this book. I mean it is abhorrent that censorship like this is allowed, but we actually don't know what was in this book. It could have been pornography, it could have been a whitewash.

But, I guess the one thing we should keep in mind is that no organization should act this way in the face of Islamorage.

As far as I am concerned, it doesn't make any difference what's in the book.

Its a book. . .we don't threaten to kill people for writing books, nor should we tolerate such threats.

Further, graphic descriptions of child-sex are not child abuse, they're simply words.

Personally speaking, I have no interest in reading this book. But I do think the book should rise or fall on its own merits, not on external threats.

"Forget this revolution stuff. Liberty isn't worth dying for."
/Patrick Henry

"Boys, we're all out of ammo, and the Rebs are coming again. I was going to tell you to fix bayonets and charge, but the Union and a bunch of black slaves just aren't worth dying for. Let's desert and go home."
/Joshua Chamberlain

"I've been to the mountaintop, and I've seen the promised land. But I won't make it there with you because I've received death threats, so I'm quitting this civil rights business to pastor a small church in Harlem."
/Martin Luther King, Jr.

Three years ago I was pitching a novel to agents and publishers about islam in America and I was told both that one specific agent wouldn't handle it for fear of a fatwa on her (she had grown up in Turkey and knew they are a lovely, lovely people but still knew what fatwa is) and another agent who said my novel only demonstrated the real problem--the fear we "infidels" hold toward islam. Then she trumped me by saying she was in NYC on 9-11. I was only in NY State so that was a losing hand. No one would even consider such a book so actually I'm very surprised Sherry is it got as far as she did. She must have a good agent!

(I told you Buzzsawmonkey, no one in publishing is willing to do what's right re: islam.)

re: #120 jemima

Three years ago I was pitching a novel to agents and publishers about islam in America and I was told both that one specific agent wouldn't handle it for fear of a fatwa on her (she had grown up in Turkey and knew they are a lovely, lovely people but still knew what fatwa is) and another agent who said my novel only demonstrated the real problem--the fear we "infidels" hold toward islam. Then she trumped me by saying she was in NYC on 9-11. I was only in NY State so that was a losing hand. No one would even consider such a book so actually I'm very surprised Sherry is it got as far as she did. She must have a good agent!

(I told you Buzzsawmonkey, no one in publishing is willing to do what's right re: islam.)

I would wonder if Regnery would handle it?

re: #16 Nevergiveup

This is what happens when formally American Companies are now owned by overseas conglomerates. I guess this Bud ain't gonna be for you much longer!

I think you're on to something here -- foreign conglomerates really don't get "free speech" (they don't hold free speech as an ideal to be cherished -- rather it's "we must be politically correct and not upset anyone"), and (possibly) they (the publishing houses) may fear lawsuits (such as what occurs in the UK -- scratch a Muslim and you'll get sued...etc.)

re: #120 jemima

Three years ago I was pitching a novel to agents and publishers about islam in America and I was told both that one specific agent wouldn't handle it for fear of a fatwa on her (she had grown up in Turkey and knew they are a lovely, lovely people but still knew what fatwa is) and another agent who said my novel only demonstrated the real problem--the fear we "infidels" hold toward islam. Then she trumped me by saying she was in NYC on 9-11. I was only in NY State so that was a losing hand. No one would even consider such a book so actually I'm very surprised Sherry is it got as far as she did. She must have a good agent!

(I told you Buzzsawmonkey, no one in publishing is willing to do what's right re: islam.)

Publish it on lulu.com for crying out loud! Come on! I dare you! I double dog dare you!

I sent a message to William Powers, UT President:

Mr. Powers,

Is it normal for members of your faculty to urge private publishing companies not to print things that she (academically or personally) finds offensive? You know by now I'm talking about Denise Spellberg (info below) and the facts that came to light in Asra Nosmani's piece in the WSJ.

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

I do not have any relationship with UT (I'm from Arizona) but I love Austin and enjoyed my visit in 2003 for SXSW. I just want to find out what your feelings are on the subject. Perhaps Ms. Spellberg needs to read Fahrenheit 451 again. Either way, UT and the faculty should be embarassed. These kinds of tactics are not right or left - they are just wrong and you know it.
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

Charles, didn't mean to paste the office info, so please delete it if you have to.

The book is amazing, insofar as at portrays the rape of Aisha by Muhammad as a beautiful thing.

Funny how these publishers never seem to worry about offending a catholic, protestant, christian, mormon, or baptist. I guess they are teaching us that violence IS the way to get what you want.

re: #118 looking closely

Agree with you totally. The book is probably complete trash, but I'm more disturbed by the control and influence the ROPers are exerting on our society. If Random House now has a new policy of "respect and tolerance," can we expect no more books from Fat Ass Michael Moore and Stuart Smalley? No more books on all the Catholic priest pedophiles? No more books demonizing Israel? No more books with titles like "GWB: America's Stupidest President"?

Give me a break. Morons. This is my chief complaint against liberals: they are cowards in addition to being hypocrites. That they think they are "speaking truth to power" when they spout off against non-violent groups is the greatest delusion in the history of the world. Let's see them protest to the ROPers in defense of their various lifestyles (homosexuality, extramarital sexuality, boozing and drugging, abortions, atheism, out of wedlock births, Madonna style couture for the women and girls).

re: #128 jenv

The book is amazing, insofar as at portrays the rape of Aisha by Muhammad as a beautiful thing.

And see, if the Mohamedians could only read, they'd have known it was a book friendly to Islam. Sometimes ignorance prevents you from knowing who your friends are.

It's always nice to see the muslims fumbling over the 6 year-old child bride of Muhammad and his consummation of the marriage when she turns 9 years-old.

Any muslims reading this post: Do you want your 9 year old daughter to be degraded by a 55 year-old dog? Yea, yea, yea.........I've heard all the excuses you've given justifying the rape of Aisha.

Here's another one for our lizoids: The Ayatollah Khomeini's 10 year old wife had a miscarriage in France. Does anyone out there have a link to this story. I can't find it any longer. Please post it if you do.

Another very interesting thing I've read about islam from Winston Churchill. Numerous times in his book "History of the English Speaking Peoples" he refers to the muslims as Infidels. It's the muslims that are the true Infidels.

My god is the God of the Christians and Jews. My God is GOD.