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To: Heatseeker

(02/10/06 -- CHAPEL HILL) - A political cartoon in a student newspaper is triggering protests on campus.

UNC-Chapel Hill's Muslim Students Association is demanding an apology after a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Daily Tar Heel newspaper. "It's very disrespectful, and I find it racist," said student Rafsan Khan, a Muslim. "I find it discrimination, too."

Similar cartoons have incited violent riots for the last week around the world. Muslims held protests around the world Friday, denouncing cartoons they say defame Mohammed. Muslims believe it is forbidden to portray any images of the prophet. Many news organizations will not show the cartoon.

The Muslim Students Association's response to the cartoon was published in today's Daily Tar Heel. It says the paper was insensitive for running the depiction of Mohammad, but newspaper editor Ryan Tuck says he had a reason for printing the cartoon. He issued a statement on his blog, explaining his decision to run the cartoon, but offered no apology.

"They asked for a public apology, and the statement is half of that," Tuck said. "We're not apologizing for printing the cartoon. I do personally to any caller, letter-writer, anybody that comes in.

"We're not attempting to offend a certain ethnicity, race, or religion. It just so happens in this case that one was offended, and we did know that going in."

Rest of story at: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=3896166


76 posted on 03/03/2006 1:31:18 PM PST by steelcurtain
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To: steelcurtain

Sounds like those muslim students aren't fit to live in a free society. The MSA has a checkered history. I learned about them during the Nick Berg horror.


91 posted on 03/03/2006 1:45:18 PM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: steelcurtain

So when someone draws a cartoon of Satan's prophet, his followers have the right to kill people with motor vehicles?


99 posted on 03/03/2006 1:51:23 PM PST by Emmet Fitzhume
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