Disinfo: Random House pulls novel on Islam, fears violence

Sherry Jones' upcoming The Jewel of Medina has been "postponed indefinitely."

The nature and process of marriage at the time of the Prophet of Islam is not well-understood in the West, but we do understand how dangerous it is to scrutinize Islam in the same way we're used to scrutinizing our own religious traditions.


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