Yale quails

by Monitor
MediaWatchWatch
August 16, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/434/yale-quails

Excerpt:

The American Association of University Professors put it best:

"We do not negotiate with terrorists. We just accede to their anticipated demands." That is effectively the new policy position at Yale University Press, which has eliminated all visual depictions of the Prophet Muhammad from Jytte Klausen's new bookThe Cartoons That Shook the World.

Yale University Press clearly took too much notice (you might needbugmenot) of foolish or agenda-driven advisors when they made the Alice-in-Wonderlandish decision to publish an academic work about the Danish Mohammed cartoons without either the cartoons in question, or indeed any other depiction of Islam's inventor. Advisors such as Ibrahim Gambari who, despite a list of academic qualificationsas long as your arm, is under the impression that

You can count on violence if any illustration of the prophet is published. It will cause riots, I predict, from Indonesia to Nigeria.

A statement which is demonstrably false.

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