Community | October 04, 2009 | 5 comments

German publisher drops novel over fears of Muslim backlash

source: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/288501,german-publisher-drops-novel-over-fears-of-mu...

Dusseldorf - A German publisher has cancelled plans to publish a mass-market novel out of fears that it might face violent protests due to a rude reference to the Koran, Der Spiegel magazine reported Saturday. The crime novel - about the "honour killing" of a Muslim woman - had been scheduled for September publication, but the Droste publishing company of Dusseldorf decided not to print it after all, the magazine said in a story to appear in its Monday issue.

It said the publisher had first asked the author, Gabriele Brinkmann, writing under the pen name WW Domsky, to tone down dialogue in "To Those Worthy of Honour" which might be construed as offensive, but she had refused.

Spiegel reported that the offensive phrase in question was a character saying: "You can shove your Koran up ..."

Publisher Felix Droste had asked an expert on Islamic society to study whether the crime story's text could compromise the safety of his firm or his family, and the expert suggested the phrase be modified.

But the author refused to alter it to "You can shove your honour up ..."

Droste wrote back that riots over Danish cartoons that poked fun at the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 showed that anyone publishing insults to Islam was putting their safety at risk, Spiegel said.
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5 comments // German publisher drops novel over fears of Muslim backlash

  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • The terrorists win another round! Intimidation and violence are a good tactic to silence opponents. Sometimes, you need to speak out aginst injustice, rather than roll over and play dead, as this wimp of a publisher has done.

    • 2 years ago
  • maof4brats
  • Abraham99
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      Abraham99  

    • Once again they force truth to run and hide by intimidation.
      Interesting????!!!!!! No. This is reality. they are not ashamed that their brothers are murdering people all over the world. They are not upset that the Muslim terrorists are a huge embarrassment to god. No, they get upset instead, when someone wants to publish the truth. Guarantee....Some other publisher with serious cojones will publish the truth instead, and let these cowards from the sixth century do their typical, expected, staged, dramatic, screaming, rioting, chopping, burning and camera posing.

    • 2 years ago
  • 2helenahandbasket
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      2helenahandbasket  

    • What a damn shame. Just goes to show you that the "religion of peace" has a reputation of being not so peaceful if someone, anyone, says anything they don't like. And this article just serves to demonstrate that the world takes their threats very seriously. Too bad for us all. We're at their mercy, just as they want us to be......

      There would be no problem at all if the author had simply said "You can shove your Bible up your ass".....

      Kudos to Ms. Brinkmann for not backing up. It seems she's the only one with balls. It's imperative that at some point regular people have to stand up for freedom of speech or else we'll all be stifled by the religion of peace.....

    • 2 years ago
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