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Sparked by a series of cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the heated discussion of free speech and religious sensitivity reached the Harvard campus last week, as the Harvard Salient chose to reprint the now-infamous depictions of the prophet Muhammad. It is disappointing to see the violence that the publication of these cartoons has caused around the globe, and we are glad to see that the debate at Harvard has assumed a more civil (although still passionate) tenor. While not every newspaper editor would feel comfortable reprinting these images—for different newspapers have inherently different approaches...
...Lala ’06, president of the Interfaith Council, cited time constraints as the main reason why the Salient was not included in the event-planning process...
Members of the Salient’s staff also accused the Islamic community of hypocrisy for reacting violently to the editorial cartoons, since—the Salient staffers said—there is a history of Islamic art depicting the prophet Muhammad...
Kavulla railed against the Interfaith Council for excluding the Salient from the organizational aspects of the meeting...
...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...