Posted on 02/14/2006 7:10:28 PM PST by NCjim
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Two editors at the University of Illinois student-run newspaper were suspended Tuesday for their decision to run a series of cartoons that have sparked outrage and violence around the Islamic world.
Editor-in-chief Acton H. Gorton said the Daily Illini's publisher suspended him and the newspaper's opinions sections editor, Charles Prochaska, for two weeks pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
"I'm very disappointed. I think this is nothing more than a cover-up," Gorton said.
Daily Illini managing editor Shira Weissman would not comment on the situation Tuesday. A telephone message left with the newspaper's publisher, Mary Cory, was not immediately returned.
The paper's editorial staff told readers in Monday's editions that the decision to run the cartoons was made by Gorton and Prochaska without their knowledge.
While the staff apologized to the Muslim community, it stopped short of saying it disagreed with the decision.
"We want to make it clear that while we do not necessarily disagree with the decision to print these cartoons, we disagree with how they were run," the editorial reads.
According to the editorial, Gorton and Prochaska ran the cartoons without consulting the staff or the publisher and "behind the backs of those who are being significantly affected by its fallout."
Gorton and Prochaska ran their own editorial Monday, defending their decision to reprint the cartoons, and even called "irresponsible" the decision by major newspapers around the country not to publish the cartoons.
Gorton said on Tuesday that other editors were in the same room when the cartoons were laid out on the newspaper's pages and did not object. He also said he continues to stand by the decision to publish the cartoons.
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Bet they ran Mapplethorpe.
I knew it was too good to be true.
"While the staff apologized to the Muslim communit"
And the dhimmi award for 2006 goes to . . .
This is just surreal. The cartoon jihad has ballooned into a battle against PC and modern liberalism. It is becoming more and more clear that the "dreaded cartoons of blasphemy" (so-called on LGF) are nothing but a trojan horse. And inside are the Islamofascists and the civilizational masochist-leftists.
There isn't much that universities will not tolerate. Before it was conservatives on campus. Now we can add offending muskies.
What is the name of the name of that conservative organization that supports student's rights? (serious question)
Don't worry. The education establishment will have the little darlings programmed to accept the Islamic viewpoint, and regard any other as hate.
FIRE.
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