“With British publication in doubt for Sherry Jones’ ‘The Jewel of Medina,’ the U.S. publisher of her controversial novel about the Prophet Muhammad has moved up the release date from Oct. 15 to Monday. ‘By speeding up the publication, we wanted to reduce or eliminate the chance of violence,’ Eric Kampmann, president of Beaufort Books, said Thursday, noting that three men were arrested in London last weekend for a firebomb attack on the offices of publisher Gibson Square.”