What's the sound of one nut blogging (title change)

[quick edit to remove some craziness]

You know what I dislike quite a bit? Lack of freedom of speech.

I heard about the story the other day about a book publisher refusing to publish a book because it might be offensive to Muslims. Random House has reportedly refused to publish Sherry Jones’ new book called ‘The Jewel of Medina’, about the life of one of Mohammed’s wives Aisha.

From the story I heard on AM the publisher took counsel from an Islamic expert at some university who said that the book would be offensive to Muslims. That may be, but anyone with any guts shouldn’t give a fuck about that.

Anyone should be able to publish anything they want. Well, actually, Australian law prevents people publishing material that promotes violence towards a certain group of people (which is why my masterwork “Let's bash Jack Peterson because he is gay” never got past the censors) and, although it cost me a three book deal, I’m inclined to agree with that particular law.

But I see absolutely nothing wrong with talking shit about religion. By that I don’t mean that we should all talk shit about religion, but we should all be able to talk shit about religion if we want to. It’s free fucking speech for fuck’s sake.

It’s the same with those stupid cartoons of Mohammed that nutballs burned effigies and rioted over. These nutballs basically threatened the entire world into not publishing them again. Not everyone exactly, but enough to make the international media look like cowards.

Besides the pussying out of the Aussie media over the Mohammed cartoons, I think Australia has it pretty right. You can write whatever you want, unless it incites violence or defames someone, in which case you can be sued... unless they are dead. This gives perfect immunity to Jesus or Mohammed hating folk out there, barring the second coming of course.

I also heard that this new book, The Jewel of Medina, is a piece of historically inaccurate drivel wrapped up as historical fiction. Once again, who cares? As far as crap works of fiction that go against the teachings of major religions go it can’t be worse than the Divinci Code, and that sold sixty million copies! If you don’t like it then write a fucking book showing how stupid and wrong you think it is.

So let me just get this argument out in the open. If you love your God or Prophet and believe he is all that and a bag of potato chips then what do you care what anyone else says about him? For soul emcompassing matters such as these, the only reason to be so mad about it is if you are not really committed to the cause and snide remarks actually cause you to question your faith. The irony is that it’s only seventeen cross wearing Christians or Mohammed Mohammed Mohammeds who get all shitty about this. They should be the ones least affected by the heathen’s taunts.

Defensiveness is a classic sign of uncertainty.