Yale Criticized for Omitting Muslim Cartoons in Book
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
By John Christoffersen, Associated Press
New Haven, Conn. (AP) - 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.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.
But it's okay to cut off the heads off the infidels? What is wrong with this picture!
It appears Islam is an iconoclastic faith, Christianity went through a phase of that during the Eastern Roman Empire, and to some degree, even during the Protestant Reformation they treated images as stumblingblocks and otherwise useless.
Oh, them poor Muslims
We're all infidels to some group somewhere
