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...Khalid M. Yasin ’07, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, said the Salient is failing to distinguish between the behavior of those who call themselves Muslims and the religion of Islam itself...
...expect European nations to respect their religious beliefs and simultaneously punish those nations for exercising their most central freedom of speech. Muslim newspapers routinely criticize and offend Jews and Christians in both Israel and America; unlike Jyllands-Posten, which ran the cartoon to spark discussion about self-censorship of Islam, these newspapers often print their anti-Semitic material out of sheer anti-Semitism. This entire debacle highlights the problems that arise when a movement, bound together by a dogmatic faith, faces the seeming horror of a pluralistic democracy in which everyone has the right to blaspheme, offend, and shock others...
Asserting that they would not “[cater] to a sensitivity borne of fear of death that has plagued many would-be critics of Islam,” the editors of the biweekly conservative paper printed the cartoons —including one in which Muhammad’s turban takes the shape of a bomb—juxtaposed with anti-Semitic cartoons from papers in the Middle East...
...editorial printed next to the cartoons, the Salient’s editors also criticized “the way Islam has been usurped worldwide for purposes of violence and oppression,” and called the violent disturbances in the Muslim world “shameful...
...We’re obviously offended and angered by the Salient’s decision to publish the cartoons and their articles,” Yasin wrote in an e-mail last night. “It seems the Salient has decided to focus on Islam and I’m honestly concerned about the Islamophobic nature of their features...