“A Muslim group on Wednesday demanded a public apology from online bookseller Amazon.com for its part in delivering a used copy of the Koran with the words ‘Death to all Muslims’ scrawled across the inside cover,” according to a Reuters wire story. The incident apparently happened two weeks ago, when Azza Basarudin, a graduate student in Los Angeles, received a used copy of the book that she had ordered from a “third-party” vendor at Amazon. Basarudin says she was so stunned when she saw the message that “I actually dropped the book,” and “was taken back to after Sept. 11 and my fear of even leaving my apartment.” She alerted the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which contacted Amazon. The company has “apologized to Basarudin, refunded her money, sent out a new copy of the Koran and issued her a gift certificate,” says the Reuters report. It has also “suspended Pennsylvania-based Bellwether Books, which packaged and mailed the Koran in question, from selling the Koran and had asked for an internal investigation.” But the MPAC says that’s not enough. Spokeswoman Edina Lekovic says, “It is important for business leaders to come out with a zero tolerance policy. Amazon has a responsibility to make a public apology and condemnation.” Lekovic called the Koran desecration the act of a “cult of hate that may exist and may be on the rise.”