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ISSUES
Violence and Fear Escalate in Wake of Cartoon Controversy
Free Speech or Blasphemy? Censorship or Discretion?
Click here for a statement from NCAC on the controversy surrounding the Mohammed cartoons, featured in Censorship News #101.
We are presenting here a selection of the material published on the issue, and reports of incidents of censorship in connection with the cartoons. We encourage readers to share their thoughts with us by writing to ncac@ncac.orgResources
» An extraordinarily thorough summary of the controversy is available at Wikipedia.org, including an authoritative collection of links to news and background online — as well as a list of newspapers around the world that have, despite the pressure to self-censor, gone forward and reprinted the cartoons
» Cartoon Body Count is a blog tracking lives and livelihoods lost as a result of the cartoon controversy
» The cartoons themselves, on the Jyllands-Posten website
» A timeline of the controversy and ensuing violence, assembled by CBC News Online
Incidents
» March 29, 2006: NYU Objectivist Society Barred from Displaying Cartoons at Campus Event
» March 22, 2006: Swedish Foreign Minister Resigns Over Cartoon Debate
» March 21, 2006: Student Editor Fired After Publishing Mohammed Cartoons (from SPLC)
» March 9, 2006: Minnessota Professor Prevented from Showing Cartoons
» February 10, 2006: Cartoon Editors Face Mixed Fates
» February 9, 2006: Student Union Supports Ban on Cartoons
» February 2, 2006: Gunmen Shut EU Gaza Office Over Cartoons
News and Commentary
» Jyllands-Posten editor Flemming Rose responds to the controversy
» "In Defense of Free Thought", by Robert Scheer on Truthdig.org
» "Satirical Images Prompt Debate Over Censorship ", by Heidi Benson on SFGate.com
» "The Media is So Sensitive — Maybe Cartoonishly So", by Stu Bykofsky for The Philadelphia Inquirer
» "Cartoons Merely Fed Muslim Fury", by Kwame Anthony Appiah for The Philadelphia Inquirer
» "Danish Cartoons: Free Press or Hate Speech?", by Louay Safi at Middle East Online
» "Drawing Fire and Blood: Free Speech and Religion" by Paul K. McMasters for the First Amendment Center
» "In Defense of the Right to Offend" by Charles C. Haynes for the First Amendment Center
» A statement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists speak out on the topic:
» An interview with Signe Wilkinson by Steven Heller, for Design Forum
» "Them Damn Pictures" by Doug Marlette for Salon.com
In context and in contrast:
» A compendium of depictions of the Mohammed, illustrating the wide variety of images (religous, artistic, satirical, etc.) of the Prophet from both Islamic and Western societies.
Related
Call for submissions: papers on media controversy over Mohammed cartoons:
Topic: The Muhammad cartoons debate.
Seekiing original contributions that primarily address
ethical and intercultural aspects of the controversy.
Publication Outlet: Accepted papers will be published in a book, tentative title: "The Cartoon Debate and the Freedom of the Press: Conflicting Norms and Values in the Global Media Culture // Der Karikaturenstreit und die Pressefreiheit -- Wert- und Normenkonflikte in der globalen Medienkultur."
Submission Deadline: May 10, 2006
Length: 1500 words
Style:
Essays rather than conference papers. Papers should be written in argumentatively focused and scholarly informed common language. Papers may be in English or German. Place references in footnotes at the bottom of the page.
Submit electronically to:
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Debatin
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