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“Prophet Pictorial: Professor publishes controversial images”

Though brief, this mention of Muhammad: The "Banned" Images (in the January-February issue of Duke Magazine) is a remarkable act of bravery -- especially given the cowardice of silence echoing throughout most of academia.

http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/010210/depgaz9.html

“Muhammad Images” Gets Prominent Mention in New Article

The article provides a good summary of the original "Yale controversy" and of the various reactions to it. "Media EthicsMedia Ethics Yale University Press Withdraws Controversial Artwork from Book about Danish Cartoons" http://www.silha.umn.edu/news/index.php?entry=211927

I "fixed" two of the quotes:

“NPR reported that one of the experts who advised against publishing the photos was former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. ‘I felt that there was a considerable risk that more violence, possibly even resulting in serious injury or death, could occur as a result of the publication of [the Declaration of Independence],’ Negroponte said.”

“Protests and riots in the Middle East and Africa [triggered by the bargain-basement mysticism of Islam] following the initial publication of the cartoons in 2006 resulted in the deaths of over 200 people.”

More Spineless Rationalization from Yale University

In an incredible letter to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education http://www.thefire.org/article/11481.html Yale president Richard Levin claims that "Yale has every intention of continuing to abide by . . . the values of free expression that we hold to be so fundamental to the University." In the same breath, he cites the recent attack on the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard as a justification for Yale's decision to remove all images of Muhammad from Jytte Klausen's book The Cartoons That Shook the World.

Big mistake. To mention Westergaard, only reminds people that a 78-year-old man (who does not have access to Yale's $16.2 billion endowment) has more integrity and courage than do Levin and Yale.

New interview with Dr. Hull on the book Muhammad: The “Banned” Images.

Read the interview here.

A new book titled Muhammad: The “Banned” Images published by Voltaire Press recently hit the streets. Dr. Gary Hull of Duke University,who conceptualized the project, was kind enough to answer a few questions from Creeping Sharia on his book and future endeavors.

New post, with reader comments, at the blog “The Volokh Conspiracy”

Read the article here

"The most recent instance of self-censorship of the Mohammed cartoons, because of fear of violent reaction, should remind us all of the importance of Voltaire Press’s Muhammad: The Banned Images."

A request from Voltaire Press

Please ask your public, college, and university libraries to order the book. If you do so, we will send you a free copy. Send us your ground mail address and the name of the library you contacted. You can email us here or at www.muhammadimages.com. Click on "Contact," then "media@."

And yet more from the “religion of peace”

Cartoonist in Denmark Calls Attack 'Really Close' (NYT, 1/3/10)

www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/world/europe/03denmark.html?scp=3&sq=danish%20cartoonist&st=cse