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  •  When They Finish with LGF (4+ / 0-)

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    There is also bar.baen.com (book company discussion site) which is in the end an outpost of Simon & Schuster from which I was ejected for advising the moderator that one of their prominent posters was calling for the mass murder of Islamites.  When I say mass I mean a hundred million or so people was being viewed as a good target.  I do not know if any concrete acts were taken in this direction.

    •  Was it SM Stirling? (0+ / 0-)

      Sci-fi author SM Stirling (writer of Island in the Sea of Time, and the Draka series) has had some of his books published by Baen, and I have seen him express some virulently Islamophobic views on Usenet and on weblog comments.  One of the most disturbing was posted recently on the weblog of Charlie Stross (another sci-fi author, from Edinburgh), which concluded with "There's a lot of denial about this (the nature of Islam), because the implications are fairly grisly. The implications don't make it any less true, however."  A poster on the alternate history Usenet newsgroup also tried to organize a boycott of his book The Peshawar Lancers in protest at anti-Muslim statements he had made on Usenet.

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