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March 31, 2006
Fear of a Jihadi Planet, cont.
Previous depressing posts on this topic here and here.
Here is the new issue of Free Inquiry - the one Borders has declined to carry. Unfortunately, Barnes & Noble may be caving too:
Barnes & Noble, the magazine's second-largest retailer, [Borders being the first] also expressed some concerns about the April-May issue, printed March 16, Flynn said. A distributor told Flynn more than a week ago that the chain was reviewing the magazine, but the issue so far has not been refused, he said. The magazine hadn't become available as of Wednesday at the Barnes & Noble stores on Transit Road and Niagara Falls Boulevard stores in Amherst, which usually carry Free Inquiry. Company officials could not be reached to comment.
Tim Blair remembers a time when Borders staged events to protest the banning of books.
Robert Bidinotto writes an open letter to Borders, which turns into a huge link roundup on the topic.
Roger Simon, former officer in the writer's organization PEN, calls upon PEN to speak out against Borders' censorship of Free Inquiry magazine (which published the cartoons in its April/May issue). Commenters say "Don't hold your breath."
An LGF reader who works at Borders emails to say that it's worse than you think over there.
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.
When I heard of this I became so infuriated that the company I work for (and I do love working for it) has caved in to Islamic pressure and is still continuing to do so. I love my job and my company but it does deeply disturb me to see what is happening to it.
I think the Army of Davids should fan out to Borders across the country, head to each religion section, and carefully switch the Korans on the top shelf with whatever books are on the bottom shelf. And they should do this, oh, maybe twice a week. For the forseeable future.
Judith | 03/31/06 at 07:06 AM | Categories: - Comparative Religion
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