Posted on 02/15/2006 6:32:58 PM PST by sistergoldenhair
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, ILL.
Two high-ranking editors of the student newspaper at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were suspended Tuesday after they decided on their own to run some of the controversial cartoons that have sparked protests and outrage from Muslims around the world.
Acton Gorton, the editor in chief of the Daily Illini, and Chuck Prochaska, the opinions editor, said they stand behind their decision to print cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that were originally published by a Danish newspaper.
"I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do," said Prochaska, 20, a junior from a suburb of Chicago. "I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons."
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Good to see that the sissy pantywaists at an American university won out as expected. I hate surprises.
If only they had shown cartoons showing our President or Vice President in a negative light. That would have been quite acceptable.
More open minded tolerance and acceptance from our friends on the American left.
Think this university will win an award for freedom of the press?
More open minded tolerance and acceptance from our friends on the American left.
Think this university will win an award for freedom of the press?
Second ping to the same story. Are you getting this or are you one of the suspended students.
Or if they had shown the painting of Christ in a jar of urine.
I was surprised that the cartoons were published by the Illini.
Now my faith has been restored.
I guess they don't believe that Islam is the Religion of Peace after all.
Back in the day, we called the Daily Illini the Daily Idiot.
Is yer head spinnin' yet?
So it would seem.
Courage when potential consequences are low risk.
There was a day that journalists rallied to notion that the debate over free-speech STARTED a talk over what words are truly offensive.
Now they simply rally for their a$$es to be protected...!
And they wonder why the major dailies are going extinct...?
I'll need to keep this in mind the next time I get a begging letter as an alumnus.
I've got an idea: From my seat here on the Left-Coast, if I AVOID reporting stuff, can I draw pay from their paper? And what's more, can I expect to draw EXTRA pay by demonstrating a higher-than-expected level of sensitivity to protected groups?
Printing these particular cartoons automatically subjects the newspaper, including all employees and their families, to Islamic jurisprudence, which claims universal jurisdiction in the prohibition on the depiction of Muhammad. At least the responsible editors will be extradited to Syria or some other country of appropriate jurisdiction (incidentally and invariably an enemy of these United States) for their Islamic decapitations. Our Constitutional guarantee of free speech and free press does not apply to this case as it would not apply to any newspaper of yesteryear printing military secrets in a time of war while slandering the armed forces. We might have condemned that conduct sedition or even treason during World War II; today, the mainstream Americans laud it as patriotism.
Well, it's still attached (for now, anyway).
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry
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