Yale University Press: bunch of coward, gutless pussies

[Rune]

Cartoon Jihad Continues

A much-needed new book is coming from Yale University Press: The Cartoons That Shook the World by Jytte Klausen, a professor of politics at Brandeis University. It discusses the cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad that were published in the largest newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, late in 2005, touching off murderous rage from Muslims around the world.

Such a book could be a useful exploration of the free speech issues that the cartoon controversy raised. And it has already shed new light on the Islamic challenge to free speech represented by the response to the cartoons, even before it has been published.

Cartoon Jihad Continues

A book about a specific set of cartoons without actually showing the cartoons. How bloody more pathetic can you get? Well there certainly goes any illusion that Yale should in any way be part of an old tradition that universities should be in the forefront when it comes to freedom of speech. Craven fucking bastards. Line the fuckers up against the wall. If you were so scared to publish the cartoons, you should have avoided publishing a book on them. And because they are freely available on the net. Yeah right. How about a book on Mona Lisa without pictures? A book on Venus of Milo without pictures. A book on renaissance painters without pictures. A book on Picasso without pictures. All those are freely available on the net too. And could be describes: Mona Lisa. A woman with a mysterious smile. There. The Last Supper. 13some dudes around a table.

What a bunch of fucking pussies. Bowing and scraping to fascist intimidation.

Simultaneously, a small Danish gallery is showing all the cartoons. They have more intellectual honesty than the once so prestigious Yale University.

More:

Muslim activist threatened during festival

Egyptian born, but living in New York, Middle East expert Mona Eltahawy has received a death threat by email. On Wednesday she are to talk about the relationship between the East and the West

The threat against Eltahawy comes after an article in the Washington Post wherein she criticized the publisher Yale University Press for backing down in the face of Muslim pressure.

The publisher will in November publish the book “The Cartoons that Shook the World”. But Yale University Press has after advice from experts chosen not to reproduce the Muhammad cartoons in the book.

Mona Eltahawy says that despite the threat she does not feel in danger in Aarhus.

• But in future I will not write, either on Twitter or Facebook, where in the world I stay, she says.

Muslim activist threatened during festival (Danish)

• she delivered where Yale failed miserable.

Oh. And the fucking idiots aka. Congressmen Robert Wexler (D-FL) and Elton Gallegly (R-CA) should shut their fucking trap.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Rune

The Last Supper. 13some dudes around a table.

They’re actually only on one side of the table. Frankly, it looks like a still from the sitcom Jesus and Company.
And, uh, yeah, Yale’s a bunch of pussies.

[Cisco]

Those cartoons should be reproduced and distributed as much as possible. Responding to criticism that you are violent with “no we’re not and if you say it again we’ll KILL YOU!” is completely unacceptable and should be fought back against.

[mhendo]

Well, if this thread demonstrates nothing else, it’s that even the dumbest, blindest squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

While much of Rune’s retarded jabbering about Islam isn’t worth the electrons used to display it, i actually agree with him on this issue. First time for everything, i guess.

[Jackmannii]

@mhendo

Well, if this thread demonstrates nothing else, it’s that even the dumbest, blindest squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

While much of Rune’s retarded jabbering about Islam isn’t worth the electrons used to display it, i actually agree with him on this issue. First time for everything, i guess.

When Rune publishes his next book, I can see he’ll be coming to you for a dust jacket blurb.

And yes, Yale has been made to look cowardly and stupid on this one.

[samclem]

For a look in more detail about why the Yale Press decided to do what it did, read

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html?_r=2

[mhendo]

@samclem

For a look in more detail about why the Yale Press decided to do what it did, read

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/books/13book.html?_r=2

I find none of their arguments convincing. I still think the Press made a bad decision, and this bit makes them look even worse:

Aside from the disagreement about the images, Ms. Klausen said she was also disturbed by Yale’s insistence that she could read a 14-page summary of the consultants’ recommendations only if she signed a confidentiality agreement that forbade her from talking about them. “I perceive it to be a gag order,” she said, after declining to sign. While she could understand why some of the individuals consulted might prefer to remain unidentified, she said, she did not see why she should be precluded from talking about their conclusions.

[Boyo_Jim]

So why can’t she take the book to another publisher?

[Argent_Towers]

@Cisco

Those cartoons should be reproduced and distributed as much as possible. Responding to criticism that you are violent with “no we’re not and if you say it again we’ll KILL YOU!” is completely unacceptable and should be fought back against.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s like the cliched exchange of “calm down” - “I AM CALM!!!” It’s always struck me as unbelievably silly.

[Chief_Pedant]

A decision not to print offending images is proof that Muslim extremist threats work.

A similar decision would not have been taken to avoid inflaming and offending Quakers.

Muslim extremist assholes: 1
Cowardly hypocritical liberals: 0

[Boyo_Jim]

Quakers: -1

[Rigamarole]

Damnit, why do the Quakers always get a raw deal?

[Captain_Carrot]

@Chief_Pedant

A decision not to print offending images is proof that Muslim extremist threats work.

A similar decision would not have been taken to avoid inflaming and offending Quakers.

Muslim extremist assholes: 1
Cowardly hypocritical liberals: 0

You know, ‘hypocrite’ isn’t just a random insult like ‘asshole’, ‘dirtbag’, or ‘douche’. It has an actual meaning. Who’s being hypocritical? Who’s failing to practice what he preaches?

[Cisco]

I wonder if they’re going for a double-hitter. They publish now and get press for not including the images. Somewhere down the road, they reprint with the images and get even more press. It wouldn’t work the other way around, so this would be the business-savvy way to do it.