Yale Press cowers over Muhammad cartoons
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- If you thought the furor over Kurt Westergaard’s depictions of the prophet Muhammad in Denmark’s Jyllands Posten has died down, think again.
The Cartoons That Shook The World, a Yale university book written by Brandeis University political scientist Jytte Klausen, centres on the publication in 2005 of cartoons that sparked rioting and death, and threats against the life of Westergaard.
But the Yale book won’t include the cartoons themselves.
“Her scholarly work, an examination of how 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllans-Posten in 2005 led to Muslim rioting and deadly violence, was to include a reproduction of the original newspaper page, as well as examples of earlier illustrations of the Prophet,” says the CBC, going on »»»
But her publisher, Yale University Press, has backed down from including the reproduction and illustrations in the book, saying its advisers have advised against it.
“I was stunned,” Klausen told CBC’s Q cultural affairs show Wednesday, speaking from Truro, N.S.
“If you are talking about training students to look at images, you have to be able to look.”
The original Danish cartoons are in a collection at the Royal Danish Library, “and Klausen points out they are under embargo for 10 years,” says the story.
“She has no right to reproduce them separately.”
A widely reproduced picture of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban is among the most controversial, it says.
Now The Cartoons That Shook The World will appear with an author`s note from Klausen, “who says Yale`s decision is a violation of academic freedom and a case of ‘anticipatory fear on the part of the university of consequences that it only dimly perceives’,” says the Ethiopian Review, quoting her as stating:
The metaphor I use is the monster in the woods: You can`t see it at night but you know it`s there, and if you provoke the monster, it`s your responsibility.“
Stay tuned.
threats against the life – Islamic extremists plot to kill cartoonist, February 12, 2008
CBC – Danish cartoons still shake world, August 26, 2009
Ethiopian Review – Caught up in a cartoon controversy, August 26, 2009
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August 27th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Make three videos and post them to YouTube;
1. Show a copy of the Bible, light it on fire and then piss on it to put it out. You’ll get called all kinds of names and christians will report it to YouTune as offensive.
2. Show a copy of the Hebrew Bible, light it on fire and then piss on it to put it out. You’ll be call anti-semitic and jews will report it to YouTube as offensive.
3. Show a copy of the Quran, light it on fire and then piss on it to put it out. A death sentence will placed on your head, YouTube will receive bomb threats (if not actual bombings) and Muslims will riot in the streets across the middle east and other countries.
Remind me again, which one of those is supposed to be the religion of peace?
August 27th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
“Remind me again, which one of those is supposed to be the religion of peace?”
Well all the 3 are supposed to be religions of peace but I guess that nobody really read the book!
Yet you got:
1) Te “”"christian”"” (Heu Heu!) Bush administration having people tortured and killed, most of them innocent since they were too stupid to catch the real bad guys,
2) The “”"Jew”"”" (Heu! Heu!) Israeli governement persecuting the Palestinan to death robing their land and of course torturing and murdering them (Deu!)
3) The “”"Muslim”"” (Heu! Heu!) El Quada organization who actually killed more muslim than others group, without mentionning all these nasty governement of parasites in IRAN, Maroco, Tunisia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, with their kings/presidents a filthy pack of retard at least 1000 years behind! They too torture, rape and assasinate the innocents as well!
So this is very simple:
Ever, all of it is BS or all these pseudo-religious unbeleaving pieces of garbage will end up in the very very botom of hell, ALL OF THEM!
meanwhile it is our duty as citizen of the world to get ride of all these scourges one way or another.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Thank you for displaying the mohamad cartoon again in the name of freedom of speach.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:37 am
I suppose in all fairness they should include a Catholic Priest and a scared alter boy?
@RW2:
The Israeli government may be Jewish, but their actions are purely by political, not religious, motivations. The Bush government may be Christian, but their actions are again, purely politically motivated.
Unfortunately, people of the world don’t realize this and seem to associate the actions of the Israeli government as the actions of the Jewish community at large (globally) and the actions of the US government as the actions of Christians at large.
Even the crusades were politically motivated.
Al Quaeda is no different. They are politically motivated and instead of voting and using political corruption, they prefer to use the crusade methods and just kill people to get their political message.
Notice the use of “political” all over?
ALL religions are about peace and high morals. Any action by religious groups claiming to be their “right” by religion are clearly political. God said the Jews do not get a holy land, if you follow the Bible. So any attempt to take land is not part of the religion, but merely people who have not wanting more and people who have wanting more.
It is all about haves and have-nots. That’s it. Religious ideals are not related to the actions of a few who’s motivations are political, that is, in quest of power!
August 28th, 2009 at 9:03 am
@Reader’s write: Indeed. There is no “peace religion”. All religions are viral diseases.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Which religions seek to provide charitable relief for people worldwide?
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
The actions of a person do not reflect the truth behind any religion. When we act from the ego/mind it matters not at all what religion we profess to believe. We are in the wrong and the Truth is not in us. In that context our actions are always political and not spiritual. The Teliban and other radical faction of every religion are liars and deceived by the world, a state of delusion. What is of God leads to Peace that is beyond worldly understanding and also to Joy and Assurance.
When anyone claims that something of the world will set their cause back it is obvious that they have no assurance that they are standing upon a rock. Their faith is built upon shifting sand.