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Terrorist Appeasement at Borders Bookstores

March 30, 2006 - Filed under: Commentaries, Culture, Politics

From an open letter to Borders executives:

I have been a loyal Borders customer — now a Borders Rewards customer — for quite a few years. I spend many hundreds of dollars annually in your store.

However, I have just learned that Borders and its affiliated Waldenbooks have banned the next issue of a publication, Free Inquiry, from your magazine shelves, because that publication is reprinting the controversial Danish cartoons of Muhammad on inside pages. The reason given by Borders is alleged fear of violence from radical Muslims, and desire to “protect” customers and employees.

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