CO Bookstore Vandalized Because Its Name Happens to Be ‘ISIS Books’

A bookstore in Colorado is being vandalized and at least one person threw rocks through its windows. Why? Because its name happens to be ISIS.

Yes, ISIS Books and Gifts––which describes itself online as “part library, part apothecary and part temple”––is being targeted for a name that it’s had for over 30 years. They say they got the name from the Egyptian goddess ISIS, “the Goddess of healing, magick, fertility and rebirth.”

Owner Karen Charbonau-Harrison told Denver7 that it’s probably people angry at the terrorist group after Paris, and said, “We’re about peace. We’re about healing. We’re about people finding their own spiritual power, and to have someone throw rocks at us — how would it make you feel?”

And no, she has no plans to change the name of the store.

Watch above, via Denver7.

[h/t Gawker]
[image via screengrab]

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