Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among Muslims in several countries.
"For us, the safety and security of our customers and employees is a top priority, and we believe that carrying this issue could challenge that priority," Borders Group Inc. spokeswoman Beth Bingham said Wednesday. from chron.com
Read The BIDINOTTO BLOG's letter to Borders protesting the company's craven policy of capitulation in the face of the mere hypothetical threat.
Interestingly, less than two months ago, Borders® and Al Maya Group Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Borders Franchise in United Arab Emirates and other Gulf Cooperation Council Countries from Borders' press release.
Here's a Borders' employee's email on Borders' new policy of moving Qurans to top shelves [via littlegreenfootballs], Excerpt:
I work for Borders Books and after reading the article you posted on Wed. 3/29 about our company not carrying the magazine due to it showing the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy, I thought I should write with another tidbit of information I learned about my company the other week.I was shifting rows of books in our religion section and it happened to be that all of our Koran books (a section on its own) ended up on the bottom shelf. The next day I was informed by my General Manager that it is Borders policy as a whole (not my particular store) that due to complaints in the past from Muslim customers, we are not allowed to put our copies of the Koran on any shelf other than the top.
I suppose that very shortly female Borders employees may have to wear burqas so as not to offend Muslim sensibilities.
Perhaps we need to email or phone spokeswoman Beth Bingham at 734-477-4457 or bbingham@bordersgroupinc.com and tell her she needs to convince Borders to CAVE IN to Americans or face a boycott, which, gates of vienna suggests is another way to say F*** Borders.
Not only have Muslims failed to contribute to anything of value to modern civilization, but they threaten to turn our western culture back 1400 years.
pete the elder tells us that NYU also forbade a student group from showing the cartoons:
The Objectivist Club at NYU has been planning an event titled: Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons. The event was supposed to be a panel discussion with a representative from the Ayn Rand Institute, the president of F.I.R.E, an author on Islam, and a former editor of the NY Press. During the discussion, the group planned to show the Danish Cartoons of Mohammed. This last bit caused a bit of trouble.
Michelle Malikin - THE HECKLER'S VETO, Excerpt: On a night when many trenchant points were made, the most trenchant belonged to Peter Schwartz of the Ayn Rand Institute, who noted that the goal of Islamists isn't merely to intimidate the west into censoring itself. It's to have the west accept self-censorship by dressing up its fear as something principled, such as "tolerance" or "respect for religion." Which brings us right back to the Alberta Human Rights Commission and the Western Standard.
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