Amazon apologizes for selling second hand book with anti-Muslim slurs

A 30-year-old woman in the United States has claimed that a second hand Koran book she had ordered through a book dealer working with the internet retailer Amazon.com contained anti-Islamic hate messages, including profanity and "Death to all Muslims!" The woman said Amazon had apologized, sent a new book and offered her a refund and a gift certificate. But she and the Muslim Public Affairs Council called on the online bookseller to do more, including issuing a public condemnation of anti-Muslim hate speech and cutting commercial ties with the Pennsylvania-based book dealer that sent the Koran. Holding up the book to display the messages at a news conference Wednesday, Basarudin said the incident resurrected the fear she felt after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when anxiety about anti-Muslim sentiment made her reluctant to leave her apartment for two weeks.