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When considering what happened in the cases of the Danish cartoonist who is now in hiding after depicting the prophet Muhammad and van Gogh’s murder, the writers of South Park and the employees of Comedy Central were under especially salient and imminent threats from radical Islamic activists. Therefore, although the only sort of speech that should be fundamentally outlawed is hate speech—which this episode theoretically did not include—Comedy Central made the right decision in choosing not to further endanger its employees by airing the episode...
Khalil Abu Arafeh, an editorial cartoonist for the Palestinian Al Quds newspaper in Jerusalem, has been imprisoned multiple times for political activism and spoke of Israel’s severe censorship of the Palestinian community...
...Monde cartoonist Jean Plantureux—better known by his pen name Plantu—said that controversial cartoons could be made less problematic by replacing their subjects with representative symbols...
...cartoonists must be careful to ensure that these symbols are correctly interpreted—which often necessitates the use of cliches understood by an international audience, said Daryl Cagle, owner of the cartoon database Web site Cagle Cartoons and cartoonist for MSNBC.com...
...panel also included independent cartoonist Jeff Danziger and was moderated by Boston College Sociology Professor William Gamson...