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...editors: If the “wonks of the academic left” choose to answer Travis Kavulla’s call for a seminar on the Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these...
...contentious cartoons were first printed in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, last September, and they have since been republished across the globe. The Salient—which uses The Crimson’s printing presses—republished the cartoons last week. A local homeless-run publication, Spare Change News, reprinted the cartoons this week...
...defending its publication of the now infamous “Danish cartoons,” the prevailing arguments of The Salient are a defense of free speech and the need to reveal the absurdity, and even hypocrisy, of our “cultural sensitivities” (“Salient Publishes Danish Cartoons,” news, Feb. 14). Under different circumstances, these implied goals would not only be acceptable, but even admirable. However, in defending these cartoons and publishing them, The Salient has made a grossly naive mistake. As The Salient well knows, we are at war, and thus...
Protestors have torched Danish embassies in Beirut and Damascus, and a boycott of Danish products is picking up momentum in the Muslim world...
Following his remarks, one audience member asked Prince Turki for his opinion on the Danish cartoons that have incited controversy because of their alleged portrayal of Prophet Muhammed as a terrorist...