American Muslims are not amused

[Gav]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011...ims?CMP=twt_gu

No kidding...

[Inquartata]

Probably will sell like hotcakes, as collectors' items if nothing else.

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” - H.L. Mencken

[Strytllr]

wow... good ol' Missouri publishers...making sure that the "facts" about the 9/11 bombers and the hunt for bin laden are out there for our children to color.

I wonder whose "facts" they used?

[migopod]

What a pile of lies! 9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by the Trilateral Commission at the behest of the Lizard People. This book probably just glosses over the controlled demolition of building seven as well as the holographic "planes" that were really missiles.

[Gav]

Clearly you and Missourians are unfamiliar with the Penguin menace...

[mrbiggs]

I see the weird aspect of the book. I don't see the part where it discriminates against Muslims. It does say that Islamic Muslim Extremists caused 9/11, but they did. In the name of Islam.

While it's bizarre to make it into a coloring book, unless there are much more insensitive aspects of the book than the article went over, I don't see the hateful aspect.

EDIT: Apparently there's a page that mentions that some Muslims think that Jews perpetrated 9/11. While this ups the weird factor considerably, and gets closer to being insensitive, we're still well within the bounds of factual information. Some Muslims do think that.

[Goldgar]

American non-Muslims are also not amused. This sort of thing makes me ashamed to be a human being, let alone an American.