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...which turned violent. Newspapers across France and Europe reprinted the cartoons in support of the freedom of the press. Four of those cartoons appeared in The Harvard Salient on Feb. 8. In the editor’s note that accompanied the cartoons, Gorton wrote that his decision to republish them was meant to inform readers. “By refusing to run the cartoons, Americans have no idea how ‘offensive’ they are. The ensuing death threats, riots, murders and laying siege to embassies, leave most of us confused and appalled,” he wrote...
...chose instead to sidetrack meaningful discussion with the cartoons’ repetitive and incendiary republication on its back page, however, such commendation is hardly warranted. While no authority should limit the ability of the Salient (or any publication) to publish provocative material, the paper’s decision to republish the Danish cartoons was in poor taste and had improper motivations and should therefore not be congratulated...
...editor of the Harvard Salient defended his newspaper’s decision to republish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, while other students at a Kirkland House forum said that the Salient’s move was disrespectful toward Muslims...
...decision to republish the cartoons was in very bad taste and completely disrespectful to the Harvard Muslim community,” Sarafa said...
...there a middle ground? It's worth noting that the vast majority of Western news outlets (including TIME) have chosen not to republish the cartoons, out of deference to Islamic sensitivities. On other occasions the U.S. media have exercised self-censorship in matters of religion; in 1992, for instance, after Sinead O'Connor outraged Catholics by ripping up a photo of the Pope on Saturday Night Live, NBC reran the show without O'Connor's performance. To Muslims, disrespect for the Prophet is a rallying point beyond worldly politics. And so as anger plays out in Muslim hearts, the challenge...