The French version of Robert Spencer's book Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith has been canceleld, after the publisher and translator Guy Milliere received death threats: Here is an excerpt of the story:
Soon after the book’s publication was approved in France last April, its translator, French writer Guy Milliere, began to receive death threats.“I sent him (the publisher) the translation of the first thirty pages,” said Milliere in a written interview. “A couple of weeks later I started to receive death threats by e-mail: ‘You must be an enemy of Islam; you will die for what you do’; ‘You must be a Jew; I hope somebody will slit your throat, you dirty Jew pig’, etc...I asked the police to act; I have received no answer.”
Milliere adds that the intended publisher, Yves Michalon, also received death threats. Moreover, opposition to the book’s publication in France came not only from outside, but also from within the publishing house, which bears the publisher’s name. According to Milliere, one of Michalon’s assistants told him that if he published the book, he would resign, because it was “racist.” He also said he would go to the media with this charge.
“My publisher preferred to give it up,” said Milliere. “But he is a nice man, and a bold one; he asked me to write a book about what happened.”
For his part, Spencer calls the cancellation of his book’s publication “...a symptom of the Islamic agenda in France and the silencing of non-Muslims as ‘dhimmis’.”
“What you have here is a subjugation of public opinion in France,” he said. “It’s ironic. If you don’t say Islam is a religion of peace, they will kill you. My book doesn’t advocate murdering anyone. It only investigates questions about Islam, but it is so threatening that they’ll kill to silence it.”
What does publishing this book have to do with the publisher's religion? It's almost as if being a Jew alone makes you an enemy in Islam's eyes, which is of course laughable, because Islam has always been peaceful and tolerant toward "people of the book."
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