A U.S. publisher plans to speed up the release of Sherry Jones’ “The Jewel of Medina, the controversial novel about the prophet Muhammad that some Muslims find offensive.

“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 fire-bomb attack on the offices of publisher Gibson Square.

Beaufort agreed to publish The Jewel of Medina in the United States after Random House, concerned about possible violent reactions to the book, backed out. Plans to publish in England have stalled, although publishers in Serbia, Italy and Hungary plan to publish it.

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