Clash of Civilizations Update:

The 6th Century is winning.

"Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry magazine because it contains cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that provoked deadly protests among Muslims in several countries."

This is cowardly. According to the Hudson Institute:

"The number of books published in the Arab world, with more than 250 million people, is less than the titles printed every year in Greek, which is the language of only 16 million people.

Yet we're the one's taking media off our shelves, to accommodate an illiterate group of totalitarians.
Shame on Borders. Looks like we'll be shopping at Barnes and Noble from now on.

Meanwhile, Hitchens puts this whole cartoon foolishness into its proper perspective :

"The object of the (republication of the offending cartons) was to break the largely self-imposed taboo on the criticism of Islam and its various icons. The satire was wildly successful, in that it resulted in hysterical Muslims making public idols out of images they had proclaimed to be unshowable lest they became idols." via Slate.com

Here's a link to the Cartoons.