Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson and "Bloggers" gets a tongue lashing from Gregory P Josefowicz CEO/Chairman of the Board/President/Director of Borders Books.
On 3/29/06 LGF runs this post -
Borders and Waldenbooks Cave In to Islamist Intimidation
The big bookstore chains will not be standing up for free speech.
Then 3/30/2006 LGF follows up with this post -
Borders Appeases Radical Islam
While linking to the "
dreaded cartoons of blasphemy", LGF posted the following email from one of it's readers who works at Borders:
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.
He (Charles) then adds this -
An Open Letter to Borders by
Robert Bidinotto about their refusal to carry a magazine showing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.
This last post by LGF along with many "blogomeisters" calling for boycotts of Borders Books, brought this
Open Letter from Gregory P Josefowicz, called
To Bloggers from Borders
LGF then responds with "
Heh"
It's a
must read, it's pretty funny!
