Comments on: Yale University Press official statement on Motoon book

By: Yale Press opts not to include pictures of Muhammad in their book about pictures of Muhammad | MediaWatchWatch

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:59:30 +0000

[...] an actual reasoned debate on this issue, see the earlier post here. This is more just an exasperated cry as the decision is finally made official, and to sum the [...]

By: Stuart H.

Stuart H. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:31:15 +0000

More evidence that Yale is an academic nonentity.
OK, my background is semiotics so I have a wider intepretation of ‘text’ than their charmingly 19th century version, but the basic objection I’d have to this is you can’t write a book about a work of art that doesn’t even ‘quote’ the ‘text’.
How is anyone supposed to understand how these cartoons supposedly ‘offend’ if they can’t even see them? It’s like writing a thousand page epic ‘interpreting’ the Mona Lisa that never shows you the picture because you, as the reader, are too insignificant to gaze on it.
Total no-brainer, never mind the cop-out on grounds of offending religious sensibilities – which is assumed because a few self-appointed experts (rather than millions of ordinary Muslims) claim only they can tell the rest of the world what that religion thinks. Come to think of it, Yale are thinking like Muslim clerics!

By: Lost Boy

Lost Boy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:16:40 +0000

Sissies. Publish them. I wouldn’t hesitate to publish a cartoon of Jesus getting a hummer from a $2 prostitute. Grow a pair already. Political Correctness needs to die.