Thursday, August 13, 2009

Academia caves in to Jihad


Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book -Patricia Cohen

The book, “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” [will] not include the 12 Danish drawings that originally appeared in September 2005. Yale [will] also refrain from publishing any other illustrations of the prophet that were to be included...

Reza Aslan [pictured at right], a religion scholar and the author of “No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam,” is a fan of the book but decided to withdraw his supportive blurb that was to appear in the book after Yale University Press dropped the pictures. He added, “It’s academic cowardice...”

Although many Muslims believe the Koran prohibits images of the prophet, Muhammad has been depicted through the centuries in both Islamic and Western art without inciting disturbances.
[New York Times]



Disgrace: Yale removes Mohammed cartoons from book

This is the scholarship equivalent of Yale donning a burqa. Good work, academia.
[HotAir.com]
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