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.記者謝瓊斯，蒙大拿州和愛達荷州記者的國際新聞機構的主席團國家事務 ，認為她所設想的寶石的麥地那 ，她的虛構佔A'isha阿比貝克爾，兒童新娘的穆罕默德，作為一個“橋樑建設者。“但即使在它發表後，這部小說成為犧牲品的文明的衝突。 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後，副教授的歷史和中東研究在德克薩斯大學，評估的手稿是“一個非常醜陋的，愚蠢的，一塊工作”，這神聖的歷史變成為軟核色情出版物，並警告說可能引發暴力，巴蘭坦圖書，一分工蘭登書屋，安全專家請教，然後與瓊斯達成了一項協議，終止其10萬美元兩書合同。