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I have no idea whether Sherry Jone’s novel The Jewel of Medina originally deserved to be published, and I’m not quick off the bat to scold Random House, the publisher which decided at the last minute to not publish the novel after they were warned that it may cause offence to Muslims. Publishing is a subjective business, where risk, merit, and commercial promise must be weighed up  - for every book a publisher chooses to go ahead with, there are presumably a whole range of books that they choose not to. 
The name-calling and chest-beating about censorship and freedom of speech that followed seemed, at least prior to the firebombing of the home of publisher Martin Rynja, to be as misplaced as the prospective ‘outrage’ of ‘muslims’. Stanley Fish had a point when he said:
“what Random House did was not censorship. (Some other press is perfectly free to publish Jones’s book, and one probably will.) It may have [...]