http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6489597Oh my.
The crooked tale primitive; one wonders how his wife and daughter are doing, no longer living with him.
The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-08-09 09:27 AM
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Teh stoopid, it burns: Yale pulls cartoons about Muhammad from book about the cartoons
Yale criticized for nixing Muslim cartoons in book
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors.
Yale cited fears of violence.
Yale University Press, which the university owns, removed the 12 caricatures from the book "The Cartoons That Shook the World" by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen. The book is scheduled to be released next week.
A Danish newspaper originally published the cartoons — including one depicting Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban — in 2005. Other Western publications reprinted them.
The following year, the cartoons triggered massive protests from Morocco to Indonesia. Rioters torched Danish and other Western diplomatic missions. Some Muslim countries boycotted Danish products.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_us/us_prop...
Christa (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-08-09 09:34 AM
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1. I prefer the original link at Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_on_re_us/us_prop...
The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-08-09 09:41 AM
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3. I agree, edited
But some of their responses over yonder...ah they make me smile in the morning.
KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Tue Sep-08-09 09:39 AM
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2. I remember that cartoon. And it was published in a rightwing paper and many DU'ers posited the notion that it was intended to stir shit up among Muslims.
Anyway, it's not healthy that we allow extremist fringe to dictate what we can talk about.
But that happens all the time, among the primitives on Skins's island, that dictating.
