The American left long ago embraced authoritarianism and fascism, and is increasingly intolerant of any point of view other than its own. The term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: crimes against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. It is inconceivable that anyone would want to publish a book calling for attacks on innocent Muslims or any innocent people, but there are many books discussing the motivating ideology of jihad terrorism. Islamic advocacy groups and their leftist allies have been insisting for years that they, too, constituted “Islamophobia.” Such analyses are what these fascists at Simon & Schuster want to stamp out. If the left succeeds in consolidating power, it will be impossible to publish, and likely illegal to enunciate publicly, any opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others, for there is no example of any such opposition not being considered “Islamophobic.”
The petition is here. The fascist employees also demand that Simon & Schuster cut ties with my publisher, Post Hill Press (my last six books have been or are in the process of being published under Post Hill’s imprint, Bombardier Books), with which Simon & Schuster has a distribution arrangement. The petition libelously asserts that Post Hill “openly supports and normalizes violence against minors, Black women, and all Black people by individuals and the state.” This is, of course, not remotely true. It is how left-fascists lie in order to demonize and destroy their opponents. Although Simon & Schuster’s chief has rejected this petition, expect to see much more of this.
“The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same,” by Ron Charles, Washington Post, April 28, 2021 (thanks to Darcy):
Judge the book, not the author.
That old saying was always more pretense than rule, but this week, it’s in the trash bin.
Tuesday afternoon, W.W. Norton announced that it was permanently canceling Blake Bailey’s celebrated new book, “Philip Roth: The Biography” and Bailey’s 2014 memoir, “The Splendid Things We Planned.”…
As the signers of the Simon & Schuster petition proclaim, they don’t want to acquire, edit or promote books by authors who advocate for “racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, and violence.
The petition accuses Simon & Schuster of “complicity in perpetuating white supremacy by publishing Mike Pence.” The statement goes on to say, “This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry. . . . Mike Pence has literal and figurative blood on his hands.”…
gravenimage says
Simon & Schuster employees declare they don’t want to publish, edit or promote books advocating ‘Islamophobia’
……………..
So they are against saying anything critical about raping children, using sex slaves, and mass slaughtering non-Muslims?
RichardL says
when scholars submit book proposals to any top five publishers, guess who they choose as reviewers? Correct: jihadis. They are afraid to death from the religion of peace
gravenimage says
Richard–with all respect–I have some links with publishing and I have never heard that publishers give Jihadists books to review.
Moreover, most Muslims rioting against books–as with Salman Rushdie–have never ever read the works.
This doesn’t mean that publishers are not scared of violent Muslims, of course. Most remember Rushdie, and perhaps know about Charlie Hebdoe, as well.
mortimer says
To GI, with respect, JIHAD includes the JIHAD OF THE PEN. Verbal jihadists (namely writers who defend and whitewash jihad) are also jihadists.
They are propaganda-jihadists. They are not ‘kinetic’ jihadists.
Mohammed gave his support to scholars, ‘poets’ and writers who defended him with words. They were exempted from the duty of KINETIC jihad (jihad of the sword).
gravenimage says
Mortimer, do you have proof that Simon & Schuster or any other publishers are seeking out Jihadists of the pen to review their books? I agree that many publishers are dhimmis–just see the story above–but I have not heard of publishers having their proposals vetted by Muslim apologists.
RichardL says
I guess if you are against “ableism” you cannot be at the same time for islam. I mean, it doesn’t get dumber than islam. To publish at S&S you have to be dumb – probably the ability to write is too “able”.
mortimer says
Marxists have made their move to seize control of the publishing industry.
gravenimage says
True, Mortimer.
Brando says
That is what I call Leftist fanaticism, in IRAN, during the rule of the 2 shahs in the 20th century: in some 50 years, only 50 political dissidents were executed by them.
1.The Leftists helped KHOMEINI get to power,and he later killed 20,000 of them.They deserved it,for being so stupid.
2.At other times,Leftists were anti-Islam: in the SOVIET UNION they suppressed Islam. Yet,being stupid as usual, they Never gave Muslims Intellectual Reasons for why Islam is False. When the Soviet Union broke apart, the new generation returned to Islam.
THE BATTLE OF IDEAS
Against Islam is being done by Robert Spencer,David Wood and Jay Smith. Yet they also associate with a crazy guy called Sam Shamoun ( who has debated Muslims),who:
1.Claims the INQUISITION killed 50-68 MILLION people.
2.Is guilty of Wife Beating and Not giving Child Support.
3.Always insults All who Disagree with him(Muslims and non-Muslims),they are: dogs,cowards, whores, stupid, etc.
He is little known to most,but VERY known to Muslims,the bad part is he claims to be a Christian. Since his history of wife beating is well-known(she left him for another man),
Muslims call him “wife beater” and he answers by saying “Your mother is a whore”. Here are 2 videos:
https://youtu.be/NKnveuD5O0c
https://youtu.be/_RiNwjGxDms
https://youtu.be/mUE-C396WNU
gravenimage says
Brando, I’m not sure I’d say that leftists deserved their savage liquidation at the hands of the Mullahs, but they were certainly in denial over Islam. A good–but very harrowing–book on the subject is “Letters to My Torturer” by Houshang Asadi.
The Soviets didn’t really have rational arguments at hand–Communism is not itself rational. But even if they had, I doubt that Muslims would have listened to them–Islam is even more irrational than Communism, if that is possible.
It is odd that Muslims would accuse Shamoun of wife-beating (guilty or not) since Islam proudly features wife beating in its own “holy book”.
Brando says
Hi, yes, that is what I noticed also,wife-beating is approved in the Koran. The whole Evangelical-Muslim debates began with a Muslim who is a legend among them,maybe you have heard of him:
AHMED DEEDAT
1.His main affirmation was Nowhere in the Gospels does Jesus say he is God…..not even in JOHN ( even others do not go so far )
2.For a long time I thought it was true ,that in the Synoptics(Mark,Luke and Matthew),Jesus never says he is God.
3.But later when you learn more about Judaism,it is true ( contrary to what BART EHRMAN says). For example: Jesus said the Son of Man ( Jesus) is LORD of the Sabbath.
The only one in Judaism who can claim that would be God.
Regarding Deedat, he used very strong language,but Always in Reference to parts of the Bible. But he NEVER, as far as I can remember,contrary to Shamoun,would use vulgar language to
a Person (whether in a debate or article),saying: “You are slime, trash, filth, disgusting, creepy, etc”. In that sense Shamoun has the Emotional Reaction of Leftists, to who you say you disagree and the insults arrive ( racist,woman-hater,Nazi,etc).
DEEDAT AGAIN
I don’t know if he was sincere about it but he is also famous for promoting the SWOON THEORY in his book:
” Crucifixion or Cruci-fiction”,
where he affirms Jesus did NOT die on the cross, but became unconscious,and later recovered in the tomb.
mortimer says
Simon & Schuster has submitted as dhimmis to Islamic censorship and supremacism, rather than insisting that Muslims submit to critical thought.
Peter Wagner says
Of course not . . .
“Islamophobia” means a FEAR of Islam. I don’t buy “Islamophobia” either; I’ve educated myself and read the Koran and have no fear of the evils that this so called religion has on people gullible enough to believe the tripe written in nonsensical and oft contradictory passages.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“Mike Pence has literal and figurative blood on his hands.”
How did Mike Pence acquire the literal blood on his hands, and why has he never washed it off?
Jedothek says
+1
A Gnostic Agnostic says
The Muhammadans are themselves the real “Islamophobes” – they have an irrational fear of anything/anyone critical of Islam & Muhammad’s pig nature. Because they can not account for the “Islamophobia” within themselves, they accuse whosoever triggers it. The fascists’ psychopathy is this: they project/scapegoat their own crimes against humanity onto humanity because they can not account for their own actions / internal state of being.
Ps. Islam is the real root of Nazism/fascism – Muhammad pathologically accused “Jews” of everything he was himself guilty of, making Muhammad the real “Jew” & Muhammadans the real book-worshiping blood-spilling divisive “Jews” who divide & mass-murder. That is the underlying reality – the Muhammadans project their own “Jew” nature onto the rest of humanity.
gravenimage says
Islam was not the only inspiration for Fascism.
But Hitler infamously *did* admire Islam–and while Muslims genrally hae all Infidels, they make an exception for Hitler.
Wellington says
For people like the intolerant nothings at Simon & Schuster who don’t want this or that book published because, quite stupidly and indefensibly, they assign it the status of a “hate book,” I say to all of them that you are unwittingly revealing your own totalitarianism.
Yes, agree with you pathetic lemmings or else. The “other” must be canceled. Shut up entirely all those who disagree with us. Surely.
And I would put to these rubes these queries, to wit, what criticism of Islam would you not deem “Islamophobia?” What examples could you provide here? What defense of Donald Trump would you not maintain that it is indicative of “white supremacism?” N.B., As Tucker Carlson has correctly observed, those who keep preaching about “white supremacism” never define what this term means. It’s rather like the term “racist” in that when the Left is out of arguments, which is of course a virtually daily occurrence, they throw out accusational terms that are so broad-based that they are completely meaningless. Fitting, though, in a kind of gruesome way since the Left is meaningless, devoid of true content—and damn mendacious as well.
All of which is why I call such insignificant people “LTs,” which stands for “Little Totalitarians.” Such pathetic folk don’t have much power but they still exhibit the same totalitarian inclinations that powerful totalitarians like, let’s see here, Hitler and Stalin did. And it’s a given that I would include one Mohammed, the reputed founder of the worst religion of all time, i.e., Islam, in this infamous, freedom-destroying list of major totalitarians because the character of Mohammed has totalitarianism written all over it.
Doubt me you LTs at Simon & Schuster? Well then, name just one of the over fifty Muslim-majority nations that exist where true freedom is present, for instance where Mo and the Koran can be criticized or mocked without all kinds of legal and other negatives, including death itself, hanging over the head of the criticizer. Can’t be done. After all, begin with a religious founder who stated that he was made victorious with terror (Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220) and who demanded death for any follower of his creed who left it (Bukhari Hadith 9.84.57) and it is deuce easy to conclude that such a person was a control freak, an overall fraud and a killer.
The employees at Simon & Schuster who actually believe the rot about Islamophobia and Mike Pence being an awful man who deserves no platform by this publishing company are utter fools at best, truly malevolent control-freaks at worst.
They are ONLY of importance to the extent that they get their way. They must not be allowed to get their way. The continued existence of liberty, proper knowledge, wisdom, common sense and street smarts depends upon such limited human beings being denied what they demand. Eff ’em.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“And I would put to these rubes these queries, to wit, what criticism of Islam would you not deem “Islamophobia?” What examples could you provide here? What defense of Donald Trump would you not maintain that it is indicative of “white supremacism?”
Excellent questions, and I am 100% certain that these rubes cannot provide logical answers.
Not 99% certain, 100% certain…
Wellington says
Thanks, James. On the same page once more. I wish far more Americans, and in many other Western nations, comprehended Islam as well as you do—and totalitarianism in general.
Alas, we are far from this and demonstrating again that continued ignorance of evil, whatever the lame excuse, is the best damn ally evil has ever had. I’m thinking here, historically speaking, of the difference between Chamberlain and Churchill. It’s Munich all over again—and again and again and again. And even worse, Pope Francis in our era looks so awful that he actually makes Chamberlain look like a wise man. Yeah, this bad.
I have no doubt so many foolish employees at Simon & Schuster, had they been adults alive in September of 1938, would have applauded Chamberlain and dismissed Churchill, the latter asserting at the time what a craven action Chamberlain (and Daladier) agreed to. Yes, indeed, fools aplenty can be found in every generation of mankind (Pope Francis comes to mind again).
What an idiot mankind is as whole. The continued existence of Islam and the continued excuses made for Islam by non-Muslims (e.g., Biden) substantiates, and does not refute, the hypothesis that the aggregate pathetic nature of the species, Homo sapiens, leaves so much to be desired.
Hell, fish and bears have more common sense than do a great number of our own species. On a consistent basis, a small minority of mankind has to bail out mankind over the centuries and millennia over and over.
What a waste that it is only a small minority. And maybe, worst of all scenarios, this tiny minority will disappear forever. If so, then the worst of mankind will prevail across the earth, i.e., adherents of the Islamic faith, authoritarians like Xi and Putin, idiotic Western Leftists, et al.
Verdict still out.
gravenimage says
Fine exchange.
tim gallagher says
As is usually the case, Wellington and James, I agree with what you have written there. This strange protection racket that is being run for such an obviously evil and barbaric ideology as islam is, is strange and extremely annoying. I keep hoping that there will be a turn around and most people will decide that they have had enough of all the bizarre and idiotic woke crap that seems to be so fashionable these days – all this cancel culture and also this treating islam with kid gloves and giving it so much undeserved respect. I’m not sure it will happen but I do hope so – intellectual fads do tend to come and go.. It does all seem reminiscent of the failure to recognise the danger that Hitler and the Nazis represented. We do need some Churchill like political leaders when it comes to Islam..
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Those snowflakes should be fired
mortimer says
Another eloquent argument by Wellington.
To summarize: Simon & Schuster are rephrasing their cowardice as the virtue of tolerance … in this case, it is a MISPLACED tolerance of Islamic totalitarians and their death squads.
Simon & Schuster should be DENOUNCING the death squads, rather than remaining in cowed silence.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
You allude to the concept “The Paradox of Tolerance”.
This was a concept advanced by the philosopher Karl Popper which claims that “unlimited tolerance necessarily results in the destruction of the tolerant by the intolerant, resulting in a society in which tolerance is no longer possible.”
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
gravenimage says
This is true. And witlessly tolerating the extreme intolerance of Islam is one of the worst examples of this.
tim gallagher says
My question about all these pathetic, ignorant and basically gutless people, such as the clowns at Simon and Schuster, along with many other panderers to Islam, is : how does this vile, barbaric and evil ideology called islam get away with it? How has this disgusting ideology managed to con so many people into thinking that it should be respected and that criticism of the barbaric load of crap, which is what they would think is Islamophobia, should be banned. Islam is barbaric and evil in so many obvious ways and it should be criticised endlessly. I’m sure that writers who tell the truth about islam, such as Robert Spencer, would not be published under these rules. I think that the critics of Islam are doing some of the most important work that can be done in trying to wake people up, which is the only way that our societies are going to deal with Islam in a forceful and sensible way. I suppose a lot of it is to do with this unholy alliance between the Left wingers and islam since they both want to destroy our western style of life..
mortimer says
Simon & Schuster will publish critiques of every religion EXCEPT FOR ONE.
That is not a virtue.
tim gallagher says
mortimer, it is amazing to me that islam is so protected. I suppose, because Muslims always threaten violent reprisal, in line with the basic nature of Islam, that some people are too scared to criticise Islam. They would know that Christians and Buddhists won’t attack their critics. To me, Islam is as evil as Nazism, so I see these people who protect islam as being complicit in defending extreme evil, or, maybe, some of them are so ignorant about Islam’s nature that they simply don’t have a clue.
Jedothek says
1. in an intelligent society, people who didn’t like books that were published would not try to pressure these books out of existence, but would rather write responses to those books. This is easier than ever with the internet.
2. I hope we are all frightened by this trend. It is how freedom of speech and the press is dying even without the first amendment being technically violated. Congress does not have to pass laws mandating censorship, rather organized efforts such as this by Simon and Schuster employees (who’s backing the effort?) can throttle unpopular statements. How long will the first amendment effectively last? 20 years – 10? – 5?
gravenimage says
Agreed, Jedothek.
Save for direct calls for violence, I would never oppose the publication of books–even those I strongly disagreed with. One can state one’s opposition and argue against content without resorting to censorship.
Infidel says
W/ the cancel culture out in full force, we’re heading towards an economic secession, where in every market segment, there will be one group of companies to cater to the Left, and another to cater to the Right. There’s no way out of this
Once that happens, it won’t be long before Red and Blue America would have to part ways
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
If this keeps up, you are correct.
It’s likely that techies are now working on and app that keeps track of all US companies and whether they cater to the Left or to the Right.
Scan the barcode before purchase and your smart phone screen will turn blue for Left (Coca-Cola), red for Right (My Pillow).
Infidel says
I bought a crate of 35 cokes from Costco before their condemnation of Georgia, and it’s coming to an end. When it’s done, I’m switching to other things, like club soda plus sweet lime. I’d probably have to alter some food habits as well, since a lot of what I eat goes best w/ coke
Heard today on the radio that 37% of Americans are turning against Coke for this decision. I never cared about the fact that coke is bad healthwise, but this move turned me against it
GOLDMANN says
Thankyou!! Mr Spencer . This company have wanted my to join their internet book club. NO WAY NOW! ?? after you have punished this arrival. They can get lost ? GOD ,YAYWEH ✝️keep you safe❤️ Godbless Mr Spencer x
GOLDMANN says
That’s published and article ?
GOLDMANN says
That’s published and article ?
Andrew Blackadder says
The Left,aka The US Democratic Party, The UK Labour Party, should now just stop using the labels such as Progressive or Liberal to describe their politics, and just get it out front and label themselves as Regressive and Fascists, after all truth is whats important… right?.
James Lincoln says
+1