Cartoon Jihad Continues

by Robert Spencer
Human Events.com
August 20, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/436/cartoon-jihad-continues

Excerpt:

A much-needed new book is coming from Yale University Press: The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen, a professor of politics at Brandeis University. It discusses the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad that were published in the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, late in 2005, touching off murderous rage from Muslims around the world. 

Such a book could be a useful exploration of the free speech issues that the cartoon controversy raised. And it has already shed new light on the Islamic challenge to free speech represented by the response to the cartoons, even before it has been published.

But it has done so in a way that neither Jytte Klausen nor Yale University Press intends.

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