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Article: A Book Too Hot Off The Presses; Random House Feared Radical Muslim Backlash
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- The Washington Post
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- August 21, 2008
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Once upon a time, Sherry Jones was a Montana newspaper reporter
who dreamed she could contribute to world peace with a novel about
the prophet Muhammad and his feminist leanings. Then she wrote it.
Today? She's the target of a Serbian mufti and a Middle Eastern
studies professor with a lawyer.
Life has been a roller coaster lately for Jones, 46, who went
from being a Book-of-the-Month Club pick to seeing her novel dropped
by Random House, which said in a statement it had received
"cautionary advice" that the fictionalized story of one of
Muhammad's wives might "incite acts of violence by a small, radical
segment."
A Random House spokeswoman said she could not think of any other
time the ...