Check out this article:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=305

Essentially, the media in the middle-east say the new apple store on 5th Ave. here in NYC is an insult to the Islam world (because of its cube shape) and asks in hopes that, "This project will be stopped." That's just messed up folks. I don't know of any other religious culture that gets so offended by architecture. I didn't know cubes shouldn't be used by anyone but worshipping muslims.