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...free speech dangerously equates the protection of a valuable right with the publication of these particular, offensive cartoons. The Salient’s publication is not a statement of support for free speech—this could have been achieved by a simple statement of affirmation of the Danish paper’s right to publish them—but is instead an expression that the cartoons are themselves a valuable contribution to this discourse. Endorsing the Salient’s decision to publish these cartoons sanctions this view, affirming a false dichotomy: that one either supports free speech...
While the Harvard Salient faced no formal repercussions for publishing four of the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammed, the executives of the Daily Illini did not get off so easily. The publisher of the Daily Illini suspended the paper’s editor-in-chief and opinions page editor last Wednesday after the paper printed the polemical cartoons. According to a statement published by the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, the suspensions were enacted at the request of the newsroom staff because of the failure of editors Acton H. Gorton and Chuck Prochaska to consult...
...Yasin censored or removed as a speaker. Yasin even received death threats. And while President Summers did go through the motions of stating his support of Yasin’s right to speak, he also explicitly forbade all administrators at the College from publicly supporting him.In light of the Danish cartoon controversy, the irony that freedom of expression was not fully defended at Harvard is not lost...
Islamophobia exists and it is very real; worse, it is growing. The administration needs to show more sensitivity to students who are becoming more vulnerable to attacks and harassment. Many Muslim students on campus were disappointed by the Salient’s decision to reprint the Danish cartoons. But Dean Kidd’s email to the Salient has deeply offended many. After being directly associated with violence by the Salient, the students would have appreciated an expression of concern for their safety by the administration in case they themselves became targets of violence. What they got instead...
...College Judith H. Kidd to issue a public “clarification” of Kidd’s recent e-mail warning the editors of The Harvard Salient that “some segments of the campus... may become dangerous” after the paper published the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad...