gothamist.com - 8/16/2008
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Salman Rushdie, author of the controversial Satanic Verses , said that he was disappointed in his publisher Random House for pulling an upcoming novel about the Prophet Mohammed. “This is censorship by fear and it sets a very bad precedent indeed," said Rushdie. The Jewel of Medina is the debut novel from Spokane, Washington's Sherry Jones. It's a first-person narrative of Aisha, one of ...
Salman Rushdie Speaks Out on Random House's "Censorship by Fear" [Books] —
Gawker
Jewel of Medina , Sherry Jone's historical novel about Aisha, wife of Muhammad, was killed by its publisher because of a warning from a crackpot professor who though "widespread violence" could break out, Salman Rushdie-style. Satanic Verses author Rushdie told the AP yesterday that this was basically bullshit: ""I am very disappointed to hear that my publishers, Random House, have canceled ...
Johann Hari: We Should Never Scrap Books Out of Fear of Fanatics —
Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
This is a column condemning cowardice -- including my own. It begins with the story of a novel you cannot read. The Jewel of Medina was written by a journalist called Sherry Jones. It recounts the life of Aisha, a girl who really was married off at the age of six to a 50 year old man called Mohammed ibn Abdallah. On her wedding day, Ayesha was playing on a see-saw outside her home. Inside, ...
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