April 03, 2006

 Who knew?
Posted by Mark Kleiman

As several readers quicker on the uptake than I figured out, the item referenced below is a parody, not a real letter from the CEO of Borders. Sorry.


The CEO of Borders turns out to be a deep-dyed reactionary bigot and an admirer of Little Green Footballs, who worries about "Islamics freaking out everywhere. (Very excitable and childish culture and religion that)" and decides to throw in a random insult directed at the Prophet Muhammed. He's also busily flogging Glenn Reynolds's new book. He was willing to dump Free Inquiry, the secular humanist magazine carrying the Muhammed cartoons, partly because he despises secular humanism.

So I'm delighted to learn that the right wing, too, is capable of fratricide. And I'm delighted to join with all my friends in Red Blogistan in calling for a boycott of Borders.

Hat tip: Tom Maguire, who seems to think that insulting a billion people for having the wrong religion is "happy and upbeat."

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Thread: Spirituality and Religion , Thread: Terrorism and its control
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