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Thursday, November 05, 2009


Yale's Bow to the Crescent   [Candace de Russy]

Yale's cowardly decision to remove the Mohammad cartoons from a book about the Mohammad cartoons was widely condemned as an offense against free speech.

But Yale's action also bespoke a more profound and, in the end, disturbing level of surrender. As the New Criterion points out, it amounted to caving in "to the insidious pressure of Islamification — the pressure, that is, to define the debate in terms dictated by Islam."




 





 

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