Indigo screws up again

Not just screws up, but gets caught in multi-culti kerfuffle with liberal American mag: (h/t Kathy Shaidle via Nordish, which shows Spiegelman's drawing)

Indigo pulls magazine over Muhammad cartoons

Canada's largest book retailer has pulled all copies of the June edition of Harper's Magazine from its shelves.

Indigo Books and Music made the decision to remove the magazine from its 260 stores because it contains reprints of 12 cartoons that sparked outrage in the Muslim world earlier this year, according to a report in The Globe and Mail.

In the Globe, Harper's publisher shows how little he (like most American liberals) knows about Canada:

Harper's publisher John MacArthur said he was “genuinely shocked” by Indigo's action, in part because two large U.S. chains, Borders and Waldenbooks, are selling the issue.

[Telling bit: - Meg] (Three months ago, both chains yanked a small U.S. publication, Free Inquiry, when it reproduced four of the Danish cartoons. That Free Inquiry issue with the cartoons is currently on sale at Indigo.)

“I'd expect an American company to do this, not a Canadian,” Mr. MacArthur said yesterday. “Even though you have tougher libel laws than us and your own versions of political correctness, to my mind [Canada] has always been a freer place for political discourse.”

The U.S. news media have become “terribly prone to self-censorship,” especially after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, he said. “There's a more wide open debate [in Canada] than in America.”