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Article: Muslim cartoon fallout hits Yale
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- October 2, 2009
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By Mary E. O'Leary Register Topics Editor
NEW HAVEN -- Heavy security greeted two separate discussions at
Yale University Thursday about cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet
Muhammad, sparking local discussions about academic freedom,
religious sensitivity and political manipulation.
Jytte Klausen, author of "The Cartoons that Shook the World"
published by Yale University Press, spoke in the evening, while the
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of Muhammad with a
bomb in his turban set off violent reactions three years ago, was a
guest of a Yale residential college master earlier in the day. The
events were planned separately.
Klausen, a professor at Brandeis University, ...