Well, the truth is that many Moslems will murder you over this.

Submitted by Ken Besig (Israel), Aug 21, 2008 at 06:35

While I am hardly justifying the behavior of Random House, I will be the first to admit that many Moslems, if they find you or your behavior offensive, will in fact stab, shoot, strangle, stone, or otherwise put you to death. Indeed, in the Moslem community itself, even in the civilized West, many Moslems willingly and even happily murder their own Moslem daughters, female cousins, wives, and even their mothers, if they find their behavior offensive.

Thus the threat of Moslem violence, mayhem, and murder apparently felt at Random House Book Publishers are not just empty words. We all know that Jihad is the Moslem call to war and bloodshed against non Moslems, but since you know that many Moslems are perfectly willing to murder other Moslems and even Moslem women family members, and in the name of Islam no less, then one may safely assume, as any Moslem will tell you, that non Moslem blood is of even less concern to Moslems.

What Random House did was despicable and cowardly in the ideal sense of freedom or speech and expression of thought, but in the real world of practicality, well the truth is many Moslems will murder a non Moslem, or even a full blooded Moslem, for less than this.

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