Muslim community offended by Apple's Fifth Avenue NYC Cube?

Instead of an addendum stating that you're going to write a follow up (that will no doubt fuel your readership), why not just state that the story from MEMRI's side is false and mention the amount of muslims who actually do like the structure. That way it could be a balanced and fair report and you don't have to steer away from controversy.
http://www.applegazette.com/mac/muslim-community-responds-we-love-the-apple-nyc-cube/

It's time to put this urban myth in its proper perspective.

Like most rumours, there is a grain (a very small grain) of truth in the MEMRI story. When the store was under construction, a temporary wooden structure was erected on the street to surround the worksite and protect the public from injury. That structure was painted black and was indeed a large cube. A picture of it, near the end of construction, when the temporary black panels were being removed to reveal the actual store are at http://www.boston.com/business/blog/filter/applestore1.jpg

While the black construction panels were up, at least one Web site that is apparently run by one or more Muslims complained bitterly (in Arabic and English) about it. Someone asked about the complaint on the forum run by my local Islamic Community Centre and posted a page from the complaining site. Unfortunately, I do not have the URL.

The actual store is a transparent glass parallelepiped that does NOT look like the Kaaba. The complaint that expressed shock because the store was called a "computer mecca" shows that the complainer does not know much about idiomatic English. If Christians had a universal place of pilgrimage, they would no doubt say "computer jerusalem" or computer rome". Instead they fell back on their knowledge of the huge power of attraction of Mecca and, since around 1850, any place that attracts larges numbers of people for a specific purpose is called a "mecca" (in this sense spelled with a small M).

Pretty funny how wound up people get over something like this. So some site say's somebody else's site said people are angry about a cube... And that's all it takes for us "civilized and educated" people to accuse and generalize about muslims?

I'm not a Muslim, but I have to admit I find this really funny.

So all I need to do to get thousands of westerners to "convict" millions of muslims is set up a web page saying: "Muslims must all unite and be angry about thing X". Next thing you know everyone will actually think they are angry.

another perfect example of religous supersition confusing itself with reality.

please cite your muslim references.

Memeri About Page, Dec 2. 1998: web.archive.org:

"..., the institute puts emphasizes the continuing relevance of Zionism to the Jewish people and to the state of Israel."

The page does not exist anymore.

I am a Muslim and I for one do not agree with the MEMRI's report and its sourced claims. Just because something shows a resemblance does mean it is a mockery. If one were to analyze the fundamentals of Islam the Kaa'bah is a sacred structure and is that alone. A structure's sacredness is not defined by its shape but by its history and ideology. I say to those Muslims issuing these statements to please look beyond this and concentrate on what truly is important. I say take it as a test of faith isn't that the story behind the Kaa'bah.

Is there anything that does not offend Muslims? They seem to be a very thin-skinned lot of people.

Make no mistake about it, Steve Jobs IS God.

Go to www.wikipedia.org and search for term MEMRI.
You will find in first few lines that it's funded by "a retired colonel from Israeli military intelligence",
and I'l quote one part of that again

"Israeli military intelligence"

Now why there is no any real note about the source used for article?

It is just another way of war. Making people not involved or not interested in war to become.

To quote wikipedia.org again

"The planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions having the primary purpose of influencing the opinions, emotions, attitudes and behavior"

I'm not very happy to say this, but mac user community has just been victim of psychological warfare.