Storm Track Appeasement: When Will It Ever Stop?

From The Gathering Storm

The majority of non-Muslims do not see the little reported jihad (unless you read the blogs on the starboard side of the bloggosphere) that is waged against the free world. This time it’s books.

Last week a book publisher told Nancy Kobrin, a psychoanalyst and lecturer on counter-terrorism, that they were withdrawing the publication of her book, The Sheikh’s New Clothes, because they were afraid of fundamentalist repercussions, according to Kobrin. According to Kobrin, Mary Loughrey, a vice president with the book publisher, called to tell her that “because of security reasons they feared for the safety of the staff and themselves.” Ironically the publisher, Looseleaf Law Publications, ” specializes in law-enforcement and criminal justice titles for professional readers.”

And what was so threatening to Muslims in the book? Perhaps it was the title.

The book, subtitled “The Naked Truth about Islamic Suicide Terrorism,” tackles the psychology of fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and tries to understand the roots of their radical behavior. Kobrin said, “I think it’s sort of the third rail to look at Muslim violence as coming from the family.” “People are very uncomfortable with it,” she said. In the book, Kobrin asserts that both family dynamics and the degradation of women in Muslim society, among other causes, have influenced the radical behavior of Muslim extremists.

Noted psychologist and feminist Phyllis Chesler, who wrote the book’s introduction and who has also had her troubles with Moslems after describing their society, refers to this as yet another example Muslim“cultural jihad.” She warned:

“If the Western world continues to give into and appease violence of jihadists, if we’re afraid of violence against us for speaking the truth, then we’re lost.”

But the story doesn’t end there. We still have some American publishers who refuse to be forced into dhimmitude. Once the cancellation became known through some news organizations and blogs, two other publishers have expressed an interest in the manuscript.