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Yale Self-Censors New Book Examining Extreme Muslim Reaction to Danish Cartoons...
CNS NEWS.com ^ | Thursday, October 01, 2009 | By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor

Posted on 10/01/2009 11:20:27 PM PDT by Cindy

Yale Self-Censors New Book Examining Extreme Muslim Reaction to Danish Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad

Thursday, October 01, 2009

By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor

(CNSNews.com) – Four years after a Danish newspaper published a dozen cartoons depicting Muhammad, and set off violent protests by Muslims, Yale University Press has touched off protests of its own by censoring the offending cartoons out of a scholarly book it has just released on the protests.

“The Cartoons that Shook the World,” by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen, examines in detail what happened during those protests – violent incidents staged by Muslim extremists.

But Yale ordered the offending cartoons excised from the book, after concluding that they would incite further violence from Muslim extremists if they were included.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: cartoonjihad; creepingsharia; creepingshariah; highereducation; leftismoncampus; pc; politicalcorrectness; yale

1 posted on 10/01/2009 11:20:27 PM PDT by Cindy
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A Look at More Than Cartoons
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html


2 posted on 10/01/2009 11:21:05 PM PDT by Cindy
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Funny.

Muslims don’t care if they offend us.


3 posted on 10/01/2009 11:59:51 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Yale University Press has touched off protests of its own by censoring the offending cartoons out of a scholarly book it has just released on the protests
That makes sense, huh? Really helps put this into context, more than the cartoons themselves.
4 posted on 10/02/2009 9:37:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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This cartoon was a wrong thing,we don’t must play with others religions and their principles,Let’s all believe in what they want without any extreme or misunderstand.


5 posted on 10/25/2009 4:07:27 AM PDT by yohan21
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