[ May 2, 2024 ]
The book was axed because it might “seize on and amplify anti-Islam sentiments.” This fear masked as respect has overtaken the Western world. Random House would never hesitate to publish a book that might “seize on and amplify” anti-Christian or anti-Jewish sentiments. A book like that would win awards and be lauded by the glitterati. But a book that is a “critical close reading of the Koran” is axed, and the real reason is because Muslims might become violent as a result of it. Submission to violent intimidation is now the order of the day everywhere. It is a massive capitulation, and the consequences will be catastrophic.
“Controversial German author takes Random House to court after it axes his book on Islam,” AFP, July 6, 2018 (thanks to Lukasz):
Publishing giant Random House has declined to release a new book by controversial German politician-turned-author Thilo Sarrazin over fears it could whip up anti-Muslim hatred.
Story continues below advertisementThe dispute, which will be heard before a court in Munich on Monday, revolves around Sarrazin’s new book “Hostile Takeover — How Islam Hampers Progress and Threatens Society”, Bild Zeitung reported on Friday.
In 2010 Sarrazin, a former central banker and Berlin state finance minister, published the incendiary book “Germany Does Away With Itself”, arguing that undereducated Muslim migrants were making the country “more stupid”.
The volume became a runaway bestseller and is now seen as having helped pave the way for the anti-Islam Alternative for Germany party which entered parliament last year with nearly 100 deputies.
The new book was to have hit shelves in late August and is billed as a critical close reading of the Koran.
Sarrazin, 73, told Bild that he had signed a contract with Random House in November 2016 on the basis of a 10-page expose and delivered the manuscript in February this year.
He did not discuss the size of his advance.
“After a lot of back and forth about the publishing date, the publisher said at the end of May that it would not put the book out at all,” he was quoted as saying.
Random House, which is owned by German media behemoth Bertelsmann, confirmed the dispute would be heard in court Monday but declined to comment on the specifics.
However Bild cited sources at the publisher as saying that the new book could “seize on and amplify anti-Islam sentiments”….
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22 Comments
5 years ago
Well…now I want a few copies for me and for gifts to my friends. Hopefully Random House publishes it, or other publisher does it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Bela Pelosi
Germany , UK, Sweden all are sailing in the same sharia laden jihadi boat and are going down the jihadi hellhole.
And After facebook, twitter , even Google joins lslamofascist gang to support illegals and jihadis
suppress conservative free speech http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
saudi/qatar/OIC own part of twitter, Fox Network, fund CNN, MSNBC , buy out politicians , bureaucrats in education dept to push islam in schools/ colleges. Easiest way to brainwash and takeover country and shutdown free speech !
5 years ago
Random House is owned primarily by Germany’s Mohm family. If there was a valid contract for the book, this case is open and shut.
5 years ago
Nazis allied with moslems once to enslave the world. History is repeating itself.
5 years ago
Reply to
Donna E Turner
Donna, Only this time the UK has joined forces with the moHAMmedans and german politicans to conquer the world.
5 years ago
You mean Bennett Cerf on What’s My Line doesn’t run Random House anymore? If our major publishers are owned by Islamized countries that is an evil situation to be in.
5 years ago
Wouldn’t want any facts to get out about the vile pestilence that is islam now would we chancellor Murk-hell?
5 years ago
Islamic headscarf is a shroud of death for a free society, says former radical Feminist Zana Ramadani.
Being born a Muslim herself, Ramadani is fearful of her life after receiving countless death threats from Muslims in Germany.. after telling the truth about Islam..
5 years ago
No “might” about anything in germany, it is run by a fearful coward cult who tremble at the thought that they display any courage at all. Being cowed by islam, germany has become a nation of poultry, competing with the french for submission to islam and humiliation by it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
“The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish
Sharia law over the entire world.”
~ Source: CIA World Fact Book, 2007
“To find out who rules over you, find out who you cannot criticize.”
~ Voltaire
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“The interests of Muslims and the interests of the Socialists coincide in
the war against the Crusaders.” [Western civilization]
~ Osama bin Laden, February 12th, 2003, Al Jazeera Television
5 years ago
A Democracy does not uphold censorship; evidently, Germany is not a Democracy. The EU nations, the UK, Canada, and other so-called Democracies are of the same undemocratic bent. Judaism, Christianity, and other faiths are open to hatred, disparagement, and crass criticisms by the faux-comedians of the toxic left; Islam, however, is a No-Go Zone for censuring, protestation or opposing views.
The New World Order is an autocracy feigning Democracy; sooner than later, a Theocracy subjugated to Islam and its apocalyptic edicts. I wish this author well; in a Democracy he would win but not in this NWO.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
The left loves censorship, that’s what the “forward-looking” Communist regimes did over and over again.
5 years ago
Germany will soon become a police state, its democracy is already badly compromised.
5 years ago
Why burn books — when you can just ban them?
Nazis, muslums, what’s the difference?
Better propaganda…
5 years ago
If we put the POISON symbol on poison then people might get the idea that poison is poison.
5 years ago
The left loves censorship, especially of those disagreeing with their Marxist Manifesto. When the Democrats regain power, they will do the utmost to shred the Constitution, specifically the First and Second Amendments.
5 years ago
So POSSIBLE offence is enough to stop a publication?
SHARIA COMPLIANCE getting more & more invasive in the West.
There has to be a backlash soon as this is utter nonsense!
The followers of this TOXIC Ideology attack again & again ( over 35000 times since 9/11 in one way or another) & yet we are warned of RIGHT WING EXTREMISM & HATE SPEECH & BIGOTRY & ISLAMOPHOBIA.
5 years ago
“…fears it could whip up anti-Muslim hatred.”
Shouldn’t the koran be forbidden on “…fears it will whip up anti-infidel hatred” ???
5 years ago
I’m looking forward to reading that book. I hope he gets a fortune in damages and finds a publisher with integrity.
5 years ago
“The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish
Sharia law over the entire world.”
~ Source: CIA World Fact Book, 2007
“To find out who rules over you, find out who you cannot criticize.”
~ Voltaire
5 years ago
The German government is disgusting to say the least. They seem to have found a way to attack the free world by aliegning itself with Islamism ! This is making the former Nazi state to again dream of world power !
