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Duke Prints Controversial Cartoons

Duke prints controversial cartoons By Nora Caplan-Bricker

The controversy surrounding images of the prophet Muhammad by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard continued this week when Duke University professor Gary Hull published a book reprinting the images.
Yale University Press made a decision this August not to include the images, which incited riots when they were first printed in a Danish newspaper in 2005, in the book The Cartoons That Shook the World by Brandeis professor Jytte Klausen, which was published in October. Hull’s new book, Muhammad: The “Banned” Images, contains the visual content excluded from Klausen’s book, and a statement emphasizing the importance of free speech and deploring Yale’s decision to censor the images.