Yale runs scared from Islam

[SavageOrangeJug]

Is America losing free speech to keep Muslims happy?

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors.

Yale cited fears of violence.

Yale University Press, which the university owns, removed the 12 caricatures from the book "The Cartoons That Shook the World" by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen. The book is scheduled to be released next week.

Many Muslim nations want to restrict speech to prevent insults to Islam they claim have proliferated since the terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, a world affairs columnist and CNN host who serves on Yale's governing board, said he told Yale that he believed publishing the images would have provoked violence.

"As a journalist and public commentator, I believe deeply in the First Amendment and academic freedom," Zakaria said. "But in this instance Yale Press was confronted with a clear threat of violence and loss of life."

Yale criticized for nixing Muslim cartoons in book

 

[therealUT]

I would have to read the book before I passed any kind of judgment on Yale. Yes, they are citing the fear of violence as a justification, however, if the book is intended to open up a dialogue between the Western Judeo-Christian world and the Arab-Muslim world, then the inclusion of those pictures would probably cause a backlash and an immediate rejection from the Arabs. However, if the book was intended simply to rally the Western world against Islam and to try to provoke Islam, well, in that case it would be a pretty worthless text.

 

[TennTradition]

Good to see you around, trUT. :hi:

 

[gsvol]

Newsweak magazine has pretty much gone to hell.

Bottom line is that Yale is more afraid they might loose funding from Arab muslim oil money.

Ironically you find much support for radical ecological policies in academia, thus banning domestic drilling of American oil, permitting a huge transfer of wealth to the muslim mideast which they in turn use a great deal of that wealth to export radical islam to America.

 

[gsvol]

Yale alumni group,

Letter to editor:

To the Editor:

Yale University Press, owned and operated
by the University, has retreated into
shameful censorship.

The Press accepted for publication "The
Cartoons That Shook the World," by Brandeis
Professor Jytte Klausen. But it deleted from
her manuscript the actual cartoons.

Why? Because the cartoons -- which ran
in newspapers and are available on the I
nternet -- might lead to more violence.

The Press went even further, stripping
out all depictions of Muhammed, such as
a 19th Century painting by Gustave Dore.

Why? Because Islamic law forbids depictions
of Muhammed, and - there might be violence.

Evidently Yale now excises from its
books any content that might encourage
someone to violence. And we all know
what kind of "someone" the Press has in
mind.

Yale's shocking surrender to
unknown potential belligerents drew scorn
from the American Association of University
Professors.

Yale's new policy, according to AAUP
president Cary Nelson, is: "We do
not negotiate with terrorists. We
just accede to their anticipated
demands."

This disgraceful resort to censorship
also violates Yale's own explicit policy:
"Above all, every member of the university
has an obligation to permit free expression
in the university. No member has a right to
prevent such expression. Every official of
the university, moreover, has a special
obligation to foster free expression and to
ensure that it is not obstructed."

All Yale alumni have a vital stake in
preserving a free press at Yale. We urge
President Levin and the Corporation to
immediately nullify the Press's cowardly
action.

Yale should print Klausen's book with all
the censored material restored and distribute
it to university bookstores around the world
as a tangible reminder that a free press
can never be taken for granted.

Sincerely,
Yale Committee for a Free Press

Yale economics 101.

Excerpts;

Yale is hardly unique in academia in bending
to Islamic law. Harvard, for instance, is a
cheerleader for Sharia-compliant finance,
operates a gym on Islamic rules separating
the sexes, and permits a Harvard chaplain
to condone the Islamic penalty of death
for leaving Islam without sanction.
(AS IF, any iman would sanction anyone
leaving islam except it be for deceiving the
enemy, such as the case of Jeremiah Wright
and Barack Obama.)gs

Such deference to Islam is the embodiment
of what historian Bat Ye'or calls "dhimmitude,"
the stunted cultural existence of non-Muslims
living in thrall to Sharia.

If Yale is not unique in this, censoring its
press according to Islamic restrictions on
Muhammad imagery makes Yale a leading
contender for All-Ivy dhimmi.

Georgetown and Harvard, for example,
both accepted $20 million apiece in 2005
from Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal,
who has likewise reportedly contributed
millions to families of Palestinian "martyrs,"
(ie; suicide bombers)gs and whose part-
owned Iqra TV incites jihad. That's the
same Saudi prince, by the way, to whom
then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defiantly
returned $10 million after Talal blamed U.S.
Middle East policy for 9/11.

Yale has also failed to "partner" with the
new, multi-billion-dollar King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology
(KAUST), whose founding trustees include
Princeton President Shirley Tilghman and
Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes.

According to a publication of the National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education,
KAUST largesse includes $36 million to UC
Berkeley, $60 million to Stanford, and
miscellaneous millions ($8 million to $25
million) to other institutions.

Nothing, as far as I can tell, directly to Yale.
To date, the Middle East looks like just one
big dry well for Old Eli: Yale's long-term
negotiations with Abu Dhabi to franchise
a Yale arts institute ended in failure last
year.

Imagine the frustration. What's Yale
gotta do for its share of Sharia bucks?
Censor those Sharia-defying Danish
Muhammad Cartoons?

Pita bread on Gulf waters, Yale may think.
But how does that old line go? "... God ha'
mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!"