I can beat that--I already have
Reader comment on item: The Most Amazing Book Editing Error?

Submitted by Irfan Khawaja (United States), Oct 23, 2007 at 23:26

Come now, do you really think anyone can beat my exposure of the "editing errors" in John Esposito's The Islamic Threat? Esposito's excuse was essentially that the whole book was littered with editing errors.

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/747

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Daniel Pipes replies:

Nice catch - but it pales in comparison with this mistake, in my view.