A response to a letter, posted on the website of the University of Prince Edward Island, from a Muslim woman to Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island.
In response to the backlash, the University of Prince Edward Island, in a decision unbecoming of an institution that should encourage this type of discussion, removed all issues of the February 8 edition of the Cadre, the campus newspaper, because they de
Cadre editor-in-chief Ray Keating said that the cartoons were printed under the newspaperâ s mandate to inform students. He added that the cartoons were published with the support of the student union, but when the university administration banned
Yesterday, my local university's student newspaper became the first paper in Canada to print the twelve "Muhammed" cartoons. Two hundred copies were picked up by students before the President and the student union/government agreed that the newsp
In trying to understand the motives of those who have supported or opposed the publication of these cartoons we must realize that there are at least two sets of players on either side of the issue.
Rationalizations notwithstanding, the refusal of the US media to show the images at the heart of one of the most urgent stories of the day is not about restraint and good taste. It's about fear.
For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.
It is illogical and shortsighted of any administration (government or academic) to deny people a right to express any and all beliefs and ideas. One is not hurt by what one reads, sees, or discusses; on the contrary, civilization is worse off when there a