A British author changed the name of a mole in his children’s book from Mohammed to Morgan because he didn’t want to be lashed or get his throat slit. He doesn’t put it that way of course. If he did, he might be lashed and get his throat slit. Here’s what he said:
“[I] had no idea at all of the sensitivities of the name Mohammed until seeing this case in Sudan” and he added that the Hindu and Muslim names for his animals characters had merely been a way to “embrace other cultures…I had no idea it would backfire like this. I was in Egypt this year and everyone was called Mohammed. I just thought it was a popular name.”
Well, sometimes Mohammed is just a name and sometimes it’s a call to bring out the long knives. I think that’s called a chilling effect, something the media and the Left usually get outraged about.
Here’s some more chilling of the kind that used to upset liberals, this time in a museum in The Hague.
