Yale Demonstrates Why Muslims Should be Banned
In my article When is Too Many Muslims? published last year, it was noted that as the Muslim population increases in any country, the threat of violence against the host country rises as well. In addition, accommodations to Muslim "sensibilities" also increase exponentially.
When there were scarcely few Muslims in our country, we had a thing called freedom of speech. In those halcyon days, our press was unafraid to print the truth. Our institutions of higher learning were unafraid to explore, criticize, and investigate.
But now there are millions of Muslims living in the US and what is the result?
We find out that Yale University removed all images of Mohammed from a forthcoming book on the Danish Cartoon Affair in fear of a Muslim violent reaction (1).
No sane person believes that millions of Muslims living in America are all violent extremists, that's absurd. But Yale's cowardice and dhimmitude only prove that the University officials fear the violent backlash from moderate, every day Muslims. Certainly al Qaeda has more important items on its agenda than insulting cartoons. No, what Yale will not admit in words, their actions show: they fear violence from ordinary Muslims.
I quote from my article above, "When average citizens become afraid to offend Muslims - when they fear for their lives that a book, a painting, a cartoon, or a news report will cause their death or destruction and forgo that book or that cartoon, then we have reached a point when there are too many Muslims in our country."
The cartoons they were afraid to print can be seen here.
ENDNOTES
(1):
Fox News, 8 Sep 2009, Yale Removes Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad From Forthcoming Book, Citing Fears of Violence
Yale University Press, which the Ivy League school owns, removed the 12 caricatures from the book "The Cartoons That Shook the World" by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen — which is scheduled to be released next week.
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"There is a repeated pattern of violence when these cartoons have been republished,” University Vice President and Secretary Linda Lorimer told the Yale Daily News in August. "The homework for us here this summer was to ask people in positions who could give expert counsel whether there is still an appreciable chance of violence from publishing the cartoons.”
The university said it consulted counterterrorism officials, Muslim diplomats, the top Muslim official at the United Nations and other mostly unidentified experts in making its decision.
Those experts said they had "serious concerns about violence occurring following publication of either the cartoons or other images of the Prophet Muhammad in a book about the cartoons,” University President Richard Levin told key administrators in an Aug. 13 letter, according to the Yale paper.
Those consulted said republishing the images "ran a serious risk of instigating violence," a press spokesman told FOXNews.com in August.
The action taken by the New Haven, Conn., university regarding the book, which looks at how the illustrations caused outrage in the Muslim world, has drawn criticism from prominent Yale alumni and a national group of university professors.
"I think it's horrifying that the campus of Nathan Hale has become the first place where America surrenders to this kind of fear because of what extremists might possibly do," said Michael Steinberg, an attorney and Yale graduate.
Steinberg was among 25 alumni who signed a protest letter sent Friday to Yale Alumni Magazine that urged the university to restore the drawings to the book.
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"I think it's intellectual cowardice," Bolton said Thursday. "I think it's very self defeating on Yale's part. To me it's just inexplicable."
Cary Nelson, president of the American Association of University Professors, wrote in a recent letter that Yale's decision effectively means: "We do not negotiate with terrorists. We just accede to their anticipated demands."
