Teh stoopid, it burns: Yale pulls cartoons about Muhammad from book about the cartoons

[The Straight Story]

Yale criticized for nixing Muslim cartoons in book


By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 43 mins ago

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors.

Yale cited fears of violence.

Yale University Press, which the university owns, removed the 12 caricatures from the book "The Cartoons That Shook the World" by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen. The book is scheduled to be released next week.

A Danish newspaper originally published the cartoons — including one depicting Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban — in 2005. Other Western publications reprinted them.

The following year, the cartoons triggered massive protests from Morocco to Indonesia. Rioters torched Danish and other Western diplomatic missions. Some Muslim countries boycotted Danish products.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_us/us_prophet_drawings_yale

[Christa]

1. I prefer the original link at Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_us/us_prophet_drawings_yale

[The Straight Story]

3. I agree, edited

But some of their responses over yonder...ah they make me smile in the morning.
:rofl:

[Christa]

5. Thank you

I try to avoid them like the plague :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[KittyWampus]

2. I remember that cartoon. And it was published in a rightwing paper and many DU'ers posited the notio

notion that it was intended to stir shit up among Muslims.

Anyway, it's not healthy that we allow extremist fringe to dictate what we can talk about.

[Statistical]

4. Oh the sad irony. remove the toon that shook the world from "The Cartoons That Shook the World" n/t

[blondeatlast]

6. "Yale cited fears of violence." Teh IRONY, it burns.

In other words, the possible threat that terrorism might occur is enough to prevent Yale's exercise of free expression.

I think we've come full circle.Isn't that kind of repression EXACTLY what the terrorists are after?