An update on this story. "Radical Islamic clerics warn of further attacks after publisher is firebombed," by John Bingham for the Telegraph, September 28:
Hardline clerics said that further attacks would be "inevitable" if publication of the novel, The Jewel of Medina, goes ahead as planned next month.
Police moved in to arrest three men moments after a fire broke out at the London home and office of Martin Rynja in the early hours of Saturday.
The attack came days after Mr Rynja's company, Gibson Square, bought the rights to the book by the American writer Sherry Jones, which has already been likened to Sir Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
The novel, which focuses on the relationship between Mohammed and his child bride Aisha, was recently dropped from publication in the United States by the publishers Random House amid fears that it would anger Muslims.
Mr Rynja, who is described by friends as "taking on projects where others fear to tread" has published several books by controversial authors including Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy who was poisoned in London after becoming an outspoken critic of the country's prime minister and former president Vladimir Putin.
Buying the British and Commonwealth rights to the Sherry Jones novel last week, Mr Rynja described it as a "moving love story".
But the radical cleric Anjem Choudhary said the book was an insult to the Prophet Mohammed's honour, something he said would warrant a "death penalty" under Sharia law.
The attack on Mr Rynja's home in Lonsdale Square, Islington, north London, came in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Armed police accompanied by firemen broke down the door of the house after flames and smoke were seen.
It is believed officers had been expecting the attack and quickly moved in to arrest two men at the scene while a third was stopped at a nearby London Underground station.
The three men, aged 40, 30 and 22, were being questioned on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism last night.
The EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella whose 16-year-old brother Ben was stabbed to death earlier this year, lives in the square and was among those evacuated by police as part of the operation.
Other neighbours spoke of their terror at being awoken to see armed police in the square but praised the operation as professional.
But the radical cleric Anjem Choudhary, who lives in Ilford, east London, said he was "not surprised at all" by the attack and warned of possible further reprisals over the book.
"It is clearly stipulated in Muslim law that any kind of attack on his honour carries the death penalty," he said.
"People should be aware of the consequences they might face when producing material like this. They should know the depth of feeling it might provoke."
He denied any involvement in the attack but said he "understood" the feelings of the perpetrators.
"If the publication goes ahead then I think, inevitably, there will be more attacks like this - this is the thin of the wedge," he said.
Speaking from Lebanon, the radical cleric Omar Bakri, added: "If anybody attacks that man I cannot myself condemn it."
Sir Salman, who was made the subject of a fatwa by the Iranian leader Ayatolla Khomeini ordering his death in 1989 for publishing a "blasphemous" book, has spoken out in defence of The Jewel of Medina and suggested Random House had allowed itself to be intimidated.
Police were granted a warrant to continue holding the three men until Saturday at a brief hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Sunday.
That Anjem creep should be deported for expressing sympathy for the terrorists, or is it The Islamic Republic of Britain that we are dealing with here?
I think what really bothers these Muhammad maniacs is not so much the fairly harmless story of the novel (as I understand it) but the fact that it is reminding the world that this 50+ year old man had sex (rape by modern standards) with a defenseless 9 year old girl. Now this would not be so bad, as Robert Spencer has pointed out, if it were only an example of the mores of the time & place but because the ridiculous Koran keeps referring to Mo as a perfect model of manhood, this kind of pedophilia is then sanctioned - really an embarrassment.
Of course these moronic Islamists are only making matters worse by giving the book so much publicity. I only hope that their dumb actions stimulate widespread discussions of the pedophilia of Muhammad.
I think many of you would be very interested in reading what Anjem Choudhary has said in the past. If you Google his name you will find quite a few links to what he has stated. Here is one for example, where with a live link to exile Omar Bakhri Anjem stated :
“Islam is superior and will never be surpassed. The flag of Islam will rise over Downing Street.” He roared: “We do not integrate into Christianity. We will ensure that one day you will integrate into the Sharia Islamic law. Our eyes are on Downing Street.” “That is why the British are so afraid. It would be easy for us to declare Jihad in Britain and each one of us could become a time-bomb waiting to go off. But we are not people who betray.” ‘The mob bayed and cheered as he said: “About 500 people in Britain become Muslim every day. “The Home Office say there are 1.5million Muslims but there were 1.5million ten years ago. Since then our brothers in Bethnal Green, Whitechapel and other places..."
Listen to what this man has stated. This is nothing less than outright treason.
Are British people going to sit back and do nothing while not only does our Government sell us off to Europe, but this, blatantly doing nothing while Muslims preach hatred about British people, whom they live in the same country with?
If our government was worth its salt then these men would be removed from the UK to their parents' homes in Pakistan and Bangladesh. This man is not British. Muslims will never be British regardless for the simple reason that Islam is their Nation first over any other.
Anjem Choudary is responsible for the incitement of most Muslim-on-Kuffar. There is ample evidence.
No one ever acts on it.
Anjem Choudary is responsible for the incitement of most Muslim-on-Kuffar violence and terrorism in Britain. There is ample evidence.
No one ever acts on it.
Anjem Choudhary:
"It is clearly stipulated in Muslim law that any kind of attack on his honour carries the death penalty"
"People should be aware of the consequences they might face when producing material like this. They should know the depth of feeling it might provoke."
Reply to Muslim community:
"Muslims should realize it is clearly stipulated in western society that any kind of attack on free speech carries serious penalties."
"People should be aware of the consequences they might face when attacking free speech like this. They should know the depth of feeling it might provoke."
Right, ethoman, which exactly why Islam and democracy don't mix.
What will be the reaction of the British public? Will the publisher be blamed for "inciting" Muslims to commit this act?
Strange.
Londoners had no problem with a play that portrayed a gay Jesus. The show went on, despite Christian protests.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990811/ai_n14250165
'The last task of the oppressed is to enlighten the oppressors'
The above headline was used in relation to a story on the Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons and the reaction of Desmond Tutu.
"Tutu, of course, did not go so far as to suggest that the cartoons were perhaps as offensive to Muslims as those depicting Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary as pilots dropping napalm on colonised peoples or leading the torturers at Guantanamo Bay would be to Christians. He just alluded to "the abiding pain that oppressed peoples feel upon seeing their traditions and beliefs consistently scorned and ridiculed" by what they consider to be the oppressor nations."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5391/is_200604/ai_n21388953?tag=col1;fa_related_widget
From here, it seems the Muslim nations are the oppressors (and have been for fourteen centuries) who need to be enlightened.
All they care about is their traditions, with no thought to those of others, which happen to predate Islam by many centuries. Islam is the baby in the family, and it acts that way - screaming and crying and banging its spoon on the table unless it gets its way.
Comedy Central wouldn't let South Park run an image of Mohammed after the Danish cartoons, so what did they do to "comment on the controversy"?
They showed Jesus defecating on an American flag - during Holy Week. Only in America.
So let's see what the British people decide to do.
When will the authorities finally thump this windbag into realizing British law supercedes 'muslim law' in England. . . and 'incitement to violence' is violating criminal British code.
Charge him, try him, convict him and deport him.
******************Tory's respond
Conservatives would ban sharia courts, says shadow minister
This is over a novel but the history of Islamic censorship threatens the West. Below is the conclusion of an article written sometime in 2003 about Islamic censorship of our freedoms here in the West. Anyone who thinks the West is such a tyranny doesn't realize the people who "colonized" the Middle East and who fought the crusades have nothing on Islam. We cannot hold a candle to them in the area of suppression.
But a publisher told one of his authors as he canceled the man's book:
"We've got to play the game according to Muslim rules."
http://www.referendum.1hwy.com/custom4.html
By now, the number of Islamic facts you haven't been allowed to read is somewhere in the tens of thousands. If the secret pre-censors have their way, you may never understand why Osama bin Laden repeatedly vows to end 80 years of "humiliation and disgrace" — the 80 years since the global Islamic Empire of the Turks was carved up and its sinews slit, the 80 years in which the Holy Lands of Allah were divided into Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and numerous others — all false Western creations designed to strip Islam of its military unity and of its worldwide might.
You may never understand why one of Sunni Islam's top clerics, sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, declares on his television programs that "Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor." You may never understand why one of Sunni Islam's top clerics, Sheikh Youself Al-Qaradhawi, declares on his television programs that "Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor." You may never hear about Khartoum, Sudan's imam Sheikh Muhammad Abd Al-Karim, who preaches to the congregation of his mosque that, "The Prophet said that the Muslims would take India..." And you may never be forewarned that an imam who presides over Saudi Arabia's mosque of King Fahd Defense Academy, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-'Arifi, preaches and posts Website articles insisting, "We will control the land of the Vatican; we will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. Yes, the Christians, who carve crosses on the breasts of the Muslims in Kosovo — and before then in Bosnia, and before then in many places in the world — will yet pay us the Jiziya [the tax Muslim rulers exact from unbelievers], in humiliation, or they will convert to Islam."
You may never understand the goals of the Middle Eastern military cells now planted in the cities of Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Spain, and North America. You may never realize why Osama views Islamic mini-wars around the globe as part of a single battle for global purity, one that goes back in time to 640 AD. You may never know that Islamic militants are working mightily to gain control over "the Islamic Bomb" (i.e., Pakistan's atomic bombs) and over Pakistan's next-generation submarine-building shipyards... and the three 10,000-mile-range, missile-carrying subs those yards have built to date.
You will continue to read the propaganda about the West's horrible Crusades, and it is true. But you may never know about Islam's crusades against the West, and how much longer and more murderous they have been. Or how much more murderous their revival in an atomic, bio-savvy, wireless era may soon be.
But the radical cleric Anjem Choudhary said the book was an insult to the Prophet Mohammed's honour, something he said would warrant a "death penalty" under Sharia law.
GOOD LETS FLOOD HIS EMAIL INBOX WITH COMMENTS ABOUT THE PERVETS PROPHETS LACK OF HONOR
PH 07956 600 569
AND HIS ORG. WEB SITE
and the link for coments
http://islam4uk.com/component/artforms/?formid=1
"Londoners had no problem with a play that portrayed a gay Jesus. The show went on, despite Christian protests."
Actually PMK, did you know that a Muslim cleric issued a death fatwa in England because of that play depicting a gay Jesus? I guess he felt it was insulting the Muslim "Issa".
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/nov/12/local/me-32740
I made a shirt on Cafepress that I ripped off from t-shirt doctor's "Everyone whose prophet had sex with a 9-year-old raise your Koran." I decided that was way too apologetic and I made one that says 'Everyone whose prophet raped his retarded 6-year-old niece raise your Koran.' I want a Muslim to try to explain how the sexual assault of brain-damaged 6 year-old doesn't constitute rape. It has that pic from Faithfreedom of the chick dressed in a tent and chador, holing a sign that says 'the prophet was a rapist, a pedophile, a mass murderer, a psychopath, a cult leader' on the back. I'm wearing it on Tuesday for Eid al-Fitr.
Seriously, the book doesn't even bring up the fact that she was his niece, her unarguable mental deficiencies, the fact that the sexual assault began when she was 6, not 9, or that he beat her. The Muslim world should be kissing Sherry Jones' ass.
In the US, we have Organized Crime statutes at the Federal level to handle these idiots.
Speech to incite riot or violence against another is not covered under the first amendment. Choudhary would be in jail, waiting for trial without bail were he to try such a stunt in the States. I really do not understand why the law in the UK allows for such idiots to continue spewing hate that amounts to a hit list.
I'll be sure to buy a copy of this book from the UK publisher, just to show solidarity.
I'll be sure to buy a copy of this book from the UK publisher, just to show solidarity.
Posted by: blangwort
Sherry Jones knows f*kcall about Islam and makes Aisha, Muhammads child bride, 14 years old when he consummated his marriage to her. Sherry Jones claims she wrote the book in “admiration for Muhammad”; she might have; in the spirit of appeasement. But in reality she deliberately falsified the hadith, which could be interpreted that she glorifies child-rape. She may, she may not, at the very least she distorts the ugly truth
http://sheikyermami.com/2008/09/28/uk-anjem-choudhary-sez-jewel-of-medina-calls-for-death-penalty-under-sharia-law/
Anjem Choudhary is scum. He is filth that Great Britain should scrape off its shoe.
Actually PMK, did you know that a Muslim cleric issued a death fatwa in England because of that play depicting a gay Jesus? I guess he felt it was insulting the Muslim "Issa".
DenverRodeo,
No I didn't know that. Thank you for the link.
It doesn't change the point, however. There were more Christians than Muslims offended by this play and the opinions of the Christians didn't matter. So why are the hurt feelings of Christians accorded less weight than those of Muslims? It comes down to one word: violence.
Christians protested this play with a prayer vigil outside the theater.
Muslims protested a book by bombing the publisher.
Case closed.
When and where can I buy this book? (or several copies for my family and friends) This book needs to be on the New York Times bestseller list!
I wonder what would happen if someone changed the title of the Qur'an, and marketed it as an entirely new book. I'll bet it would gain some readership, if it had a spicy title.
What would the uproar be, and by whom would it be caused?
Can you imagine the outrage on both sides? It would be denounced as pornography, by some non-Muslims, and denounced as an insult to Mo' Mad, by Muslims.
It would have to be translated into a readable format...Never mind. It's impossible to make the Qur'an readable.
I'm with other posters who say that Jewel of Medina is kiddy porn, judging from the excerpt that was released. It's crap that should never see the light of day, except for the fact that banning it might damage the principle of freedom of expression.