A Modest Proposal. Let The Brave Danes Speak at Both Conventions

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
August 22, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/333/a-modest-proposal-let-the-brave-danes-speak

Excerpt:

Denmark’s Free Speech Library has offered to publish Sherry Jones’ The Jewel of Medina–the very book that Random House just canceled.The Free Speech Library is an independent company under its own management but with close ties to Denmark’s Free Press Society.

Both Salman Rushdie and Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who penned the drawing of a prophet with a bomb in his turban, criticized Random House for their decision.

Westergaard expressed his dismay that “one of the large publishers is now bowing to intimidation. That is not a good omen for free speech. If the major publishers lose their nerve then I’m afraid that others will follow suit. The big publishers ought to set a good example. The fanatics have won.”

Although every major publisher (including Random House) supports Rachel Ehrenfeld in her battle to protect free speech in America,  they are not funding that battle. They have only submitted amicus briefs.

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