{"id":68849,"date":"2018-11-26T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/26\/graphic-novel-steeped-in-islamophobia-pulled-after-protests\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:47:09","slug":"graphic-novel-steeped-in-islamophobia-pulled-after-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=68849","title":{"rendered":"Graphic novel &#039;steeped in Islamophobia&#039; pulled after protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library by Jack Gantos and Dave McKean withdrawn after more than 1,000 people objectA Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library, a controversial new comic that has been described as \u201cwilfully fear-mongering and spreading harmful stereotypes\u201d, has been pulled from publication following a barrage of criticism.The graphic novel, written by the Newbery medal-winning author Jack Gantos and illustrated by Sandman artist Dave McKean, follows a young, brown-skinned would-be terrorist. It was due to be released in May 2019. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/nov\/26\/a-suicide-bomber-sits-in-the-library-comic-pulled-protests-jack-gantos-dave-mckean\" target=\"_blank\">Graphic novel &#039;steeped in Islamophobia&#039; pulled after protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library by Jack Gantos and Dave McKean withdrawn after more than 1,000 people objectA Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library, a controversial new comic that has been described as \u201cwilfully fear-mongering and spreading harmful stereotypes\u201d, has been pulled from publication following a barrage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}