Too Christian for Academia? A four-volume encyclopedia gets pulped in the name of political correctness.

Another scholarly book destroyed by whining, whinging Jihad waging Muslims who demand to edit every publication they deem to be offensive to some aspect of Islam. The really sad part of this is that another publisher has knuckled under to Islamic terrorism.

"This is probably the first instance of mass book-burning in the 21st century."

Where will you be when the Jihad hits the street?

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Too Christian for Academia? A four-volume encyclopedia gets pulped in the name of political correctness.

By Edward Feser

February 11, 2009

Wiley-Blackwell, a major academic press, was set to release its four-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization this month. According to the encyclopedia's editor, George Thomas Kurian, the set had been copy-edited, fact-checked, proofread, publisher-approved, printed, bound, and formally launched (to high praise) at the recent American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature conference.

But protests from a small group of scholars associated with the project have led the press to postpone publication, recall all copies already distributed, and destroy the existing print run. The scholars' complaint? The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, they have reportedly argued, is "too Christian." "They also object to historical references to the persecution and massacres of Christians by Muslims," Kurian says, "but at the same time want references favorable to Islam."

Political correctness in academic publishing is nothing new, but it would be unusual, to say the least, for ideological pressure to lead a publisher to reverse itself so late in the process, especially given the significant financial losses involved in pulping a print run of a gigantic four-volume encyclopedia. As Kurian puts it, "This is probably the first instance of mass book-burning in the 21st century."
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