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9Nov/090

Danish Cartoons Illustrated in New Book of Images of Muhammad

Campus Watch: Monitoring Middles East Studies on Campus: "Danish Cartoons Illustrated in New Book of Images of Muhammad"

The provocatively titled Muhammad: The "Banned" Images adds another chapter to the saga of the Danish cartoons, which were back in the news recently after the FBI arrested David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana for plotting to kill Flemming Rose. Rose is the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that sponsored and first published the controversial cartoons back in 2005. …

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9Nov/090

Muhammad, unbanned

The News Blog of Yale Alumni Magazine: "Muhammad, unbanned," by Carole Bass

Just in case you’d forgotten about those Muhammad cartoons that the Yale University Press decided to omit from its book about the Muhammad cartoons, here they come again. Muhammad: The “Banned” Images stands as a direct response to Jytte Klausen’s image-purged The Cartoons That Shook the World.

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Duke Professor Finishes Yale’s Job, Prints Mohammed Images in New Book

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: "Duke Professor Finishes Yale's Job, Prints Mohammed Images in New Book: FIRE Co-signs Statement of Principle," by Adam Kissel

Duke University Professor Gary Hull has just published Muhammad: The "Banned" Images, which dares to publish images that Yale University and Yale University Press censored from Jytte Klausen's The Cartoons that Shook the World earlier this year. Hull calls the book "a statement of defiance against censors, terror-mongers, and their Western appeasers." FIRE joined with the National Coalition Against Censorship, the American Association of University Professors, and nine other signatories on a Statement of Principle

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9Nov/090

Censored Images of Muhammad Finally Printed in New Book

The Huffington Post: "Censored Images of Muhammad Finally Printed in New Book,"
by Greg Lukianoff

Today my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), is proud to join a broad coalition criticizing Yale University's decision to censor the Muhammad cartoons from a book about the cartoons. The statement is included in Duke University Professor Gary Hull's new book Muhammad: The "Banned Images" -- which prints the censored images and many more.

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9Nov/090

‘Muhammad: The “Banned” Images’ at Volokh Conspiracy

Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy has a post about the book that begins:

I’m pleased to be the first to report that the newly founded Voltaire Press at Duke University has just published Muhammad: The “Banned” Images. The book includes all the images that were omitted by the Yale University Press from Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons That Shook the World — including the 12 Mohammed cartoons — plus many more historically significant items (a total of 31), together with brief discussions of the context behind each work. The images, reproduced in high quality and in full color, include works by William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Salvador Dali, as well as Muslim artists from the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires.

See his full post for much more.

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