Omission of cartoons stirs conflict
A book slated to be published by the Yale University Press about violent controversy stirred some academic controversy of its own this summer.
After the Yale University Press decided to omit the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen’s “The Cartoons that Shook the World,” an account of the uproar that ensued after a Danish newspaper published 12 caricatures in 2005, academics and writers debated the merits of the self-censorship.
While the decision to remove those images and others of Muhammad in the text stemmed from concerns about...
You got that right WW! Since when have the Danes become more courageous than we Americans? By the way, check out what the Danes are doing NOW. It hasn't had much press. They have since re-released the cartoons and some Danes are suing the very groups who protested against them (Whooah!). Bravery, courage, patriotism! I don't happen to have the link, but you can find it if you look.
It's illogical to publish a book about the cartoons without the images themselves.
It's about control and not trusting viewers and readers to form their own reactions.
The book is illegitimate without the images. For a university in the United States to practice censorship and present incomplete evidence is shameful.
If the publisher really expects extremists who oppose such images to purchase the book, it could present the cartoons in a sealed section, giving readers the choice to view or not.
<a href="http://princesswantsout.blogspot.com/2009/08/images.html">WW</a>