The appeasement of Islamo-fascism continues to spread.
It's now hit one of America's biggest book store chains.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed 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.
The magazine, published by the Council for Secular Humanism in suburban Amherst, includes four of the drawings that originally appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, including one depicting Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse.
At least the spokeswoman spared us claptrap about wanting to be "sensitive" to Muslims.
The lesson to be learned, writes Andrew Sullivan, is an easy one, albeit sad, too.
"It's obvious: violence against free writers and artists gets results. We have all but invited more."
Fortuantely, we have a way to respond.
"If you care about freedom of expression," Sullivan writes, "don't buy books from Borders or Waldenbooks."
I know I won't.
(H/T to Andrew Sullivan)
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