Radical Islamic clerics warn of further attacks after publisher is firebombed

by John Bingham
The Telegraph
September 28, 2008

https://www.legal-project.org/118/radical-islamic-clerics-warn-of-further-attacks

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Hardline clerics said that further attacks would be "inevitable" if publication of the novel, The Jewel of Medina, goes ahead as planned next month.

Police moved in to arrest three men moments after a fire broke out at the London home and office of Martin Rynja in the early hours of Saturday.

The attack came days after Mr Rynja's company, Gibson Square, bought the rights to the book by the American writer Sherry Jones, which has already been likened to Sir Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

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