Journalist Sherry Jones, the Montana and Idaho correspondent for the international news agency the Bureau of National Affairs , maintains that she envisioned The Jewel of Medina , her fictionalized account of A'isha Abi Bakr, the child bride of Muhammad, as a “bridge builder.” But even before it was published, the novel became a casualty of the clash of civilizations.记者谢琼斯，蒙大拿州和爱达荷州记者的国际新闻机构的事务局在国家 ，认为她所设想的麦地那的宝石 ，她的虚构占A'isha阿比贝克尔的穆罕默德童养媳，作为一个“桥梁建设者。“但即使在它发表后，这部小说成为文明冲突的牺牲品。 After Denise Spellberg, associate professor of history and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Texas, assessed the manuscript as “a very ugly, stupid, piece of work” which turned sacred history into soft-core pornography and warned that publication could provoke violence, Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, consulted with security experts and then negotiated an agreement with Jones to terminate their $100,000 two-book contract.丹尼斯Spellberg后，中东的历史和在得克萨斯大学的研究副教授，评估为“非常丑陋，愚蠢，工作”，这变成软核色情片神圣的历史手稿，并警告说可能引发暴力的出版物，巴兰坦图书，兰登书屋的一个部门，与安全专家咨询，然后与琼斯达成了一项协议，以终止其10万美元两书合同。