Middle East studies in the News

More Spineless Rationalization from Yale University [incl. Jytte Klausen]

by Gary Hull
Muhammad: The "Banned" Images Blog
January 15, 2010

http://www.muhammadimagesblog.com/2010/01/more-spineless-rationalization-from-yale-university/

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8979

In an incredible letter to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education http://www.thefire.org/article/11481.html Yale president Richard Levin claims that "Yale has every intention of continuing to abide by . . . the values of free expression that we hold to be so fundamental to the University." In the same breath, he cites the recent attack on the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard as a justification for Yale's decision to remove all images of Muhammad from Jytte Klausen's book The Cartoons That Shook the World.

Big mistake. To mention Westergaard, only reminds people that a 78-year-old man (who does not have access to Yale's $16.2 billion endowment) has more integrity and courage than do Levin and Yale.

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