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...offend the deepest sensibilities of many Muslims who believe any illustration of Muhammad to be inappropriate, much less one that so directly equates the teaching of Islam’s greatest prophet with terrorism. Saddled not only with this disturbing implication but also with the weight of violent protest, these cartoons do less to encourage substantive debate on the conflict between free speech and sensitivity than it does to inspire knee-jerk reactions and finger pointing on all sides. And considering that the purpose of the Salient’s back page is almost always to incite controversy, the latter...
...Kidd wrote. Beyond her warning, neither the Salient nor its staff faced reprimands from Harvard officials as a result of the publication. Meanwhile, members of The Daily Illini found themselves under intense scrutiny across campus after publishing the cartoons, as a group of Muslim students and others held a protest on the main quadrangle of the University of Illinois. In an editorial accompanying the cartoons, Gorton acknowledged that the cartoons were “bigoted and insensitive to the Islamic faith,” but stood by their publication. “I addressed something that mainstream media was afraid...
Within minutes, this one-man demonstration was shut down by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), which sent Keenan packing on the grounds that he didn’t have a permit for the protest. A permit, the officers explained, was required so that Harvard administrators can provide for security at on-campus demonstrations, per university policy...
...fairness, the administration no doubt simply seeks to cover all its bases; it gets sued for the one protest that turns violent, not for the hundred that do not. But such a defense, taken to its logical conclusion, could easily justify an outright ban on all public expression. Further, the administration admirably stood by the Salient’s rights to free expression while other schools were not as supportive (at the University of Illinois, two student editors were reprimanded by the University chancellor, who wrote a letter criticizing the newspaper for publishing the cartoons...