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An installment of the widely popular children’s book series Biff, Chip and Kipper will no longer be for sale following accusations of racist depictions of Muslims, The Guardian has reported. The story, titled The Blue Eye, drew widespread criticism for portraying the Middle East as a “scary place”, and will no longer be printed by the book’s publisher Oxford University Press (OUP). The publisher said they will also destroy any remaining copies. In the story, the characters Wilf and Biff are magically transported to a foreign land after acquiring a set of marbles, and find themselves in what ap…