Author: Ethel C. Fenig
Publication: American Thinker
Date: April 1, 2006
URL: http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4766
The liberals were right: our civil liberties
are slowly disappearing now that George Bush is president. Of course most
of the liberals not only seem to approve of these infringements on our freedoms
they initiate them-all in the name of the highest ideals of liberalism. Political
correctness and sensitivity and all that. And all in the name of religion.
But only one religion-Islam.
Yep, its those cartoons again. Mustn't see
them because they are oh so disrespectful, so hurtful. And of course they
cause riots. Recently the lack of freedom to view these cartoons occurred
in the in one of the main centers of American liberalism-New York. And now
a major bookstore chain got religion.
Borders and Waldenbooks have refused to display
and sell the April-May issue of the magazine Free Inquiry because of those
dreaded cartoons.
But what inspired this sudden religious sensitivity?
"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.
Hmmm, just what could she be implying by that
disingenuous excuse? Viewing these images of Mohammed would ruin one's eyesight?
Nope. Borders and Waldenbooks are succumbing to terror and prattling about
their respect for the first amendment doesn't change it.
"We absolutely respect our customers'
right to choose what they wish to read and buy and we support the First Amendment,"
Bingham said. "And we absolutely support the rights of Free Inquiry to
publish the cartoons. We've just chosen not to carry this particular issue
in our stores."
Let Borders know how you feel about their
lack of your "right to choose what (you) wish to read and buy…"
Hopefully they will then finally get their priorities straight. Ethel C. Fenig
3 30 06
Update: It gets worse!
Little Green footballs has a follow up on
Borders' reverential fear of Islam.
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.
Perhaps Borders customers of the diverse religions
that make up America can demand that their religious holy books receive equally
respectful treatment; top shelf, eye level display only. But then again most
of these believers aren't that bigoted believing as they do in America's tradition
of freedom of religion and lack of censorship.
Borders' apparent lack of respect for these
fundamental rights is enough to make me an ex Border customer.
