Comments on: Villain or Fall Guy? Yale and the Case of the Missing Cartoons http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:59:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Martin Kramer on the Middle East · Fear-mongering at Yale http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-115008 Martin Kramer on the Middle East · Fear-mongering at Yale Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:16:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-115008 [...] Inhorn has been called in by the publisher to break some bad news to the author. Here’s a summary of what transpired at that meeting (as told by Klausen to Roger Kimball): Their two-hour cup of [...] [...] Inhorn has been called in by the publisher to break some bad news to the author. Here’s a summary of what transpired at that meeting (as told by Klausen to Roger Kimball): Their two-hour cup of [...]

]]> By: The case of the missing cartoons | No Bull. news service. http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-49414 The case of the missing cartoons | No Bull. news service. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:20:51 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-49414 [...] Why did Yale University Press remove the Muhammad cartoons from Brandeis University Professor Jytte Klausen’s forthcoming book on the cartoon controversy? It turns out, Roger Kimball reports, the question is not susceptible to an easy answer. Kimball explores the question in “Villain or fall guy: Yale and the case of the missing cartoons.” [...] [...] Why did Yale University Press remove the Muhammad cartoons from Brandeis University Professor Jytte Klausen’s forthcoming book on the cartoon controversy? It turns out, Roger Kimball reports, the question is not susceptible to an easy answer. Kimball explores the question in “Villain or fall guy: Yale and the case of the missing cartoons.” [...]

]]> By: James Walsh http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-31094 James Walsh Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:23:23 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-31094 To whom it may concern, I concur in all of the critical commentary published to date about the craven action of the Yale University Press's decision to publish the book without the cartoons. The only remaining comment I would offer is this: what is the point of publishing a book which deals with the issues raised by the publication of "offensive" cartoons without publishing the cartoons themselves? What in the world could Yale possiblly be thinking would be the value of such a book? To whom it may concern,

I concur in all of the critical commentary published to date about the craven action of the Yale University Press’s decision to publish the book without the cartoons. The only remaining comment I would offer is this: what is the point of publishing a book which deals with the issues raised by the publication of “offensive” cartoons without publishing the cartoons themselves? What in the world could Yale possiblly be thinking would be the value of such a book?

]]> By: Manny jakel http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-29968 Manny jakel Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:32:39 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-29968 EVERYBODY IS IN AGREEMENT. YUP IS A RAT'S NEST OF FRIGHTENED FEMALE MALES, AND FEMALES. MY SUGGESTION IS THAT FROM NOW ON THEY PUBLISH ONLY EMPTY PAGES INSERTED BETWEEN TWO COVERS. THAT WAY THEY CAN SAY IT'S A VIRTUAL BOOK. THIS WORLD HAS TRULY BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, SHAKEN A FEW TIMES, AND THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN IT LANDS. EVERYBODY IS IN AGREEMENT. YUP IS A RAT’S NEST OF FRIGHTENED FEMALE MALES, AND FEMALES. MY SUGGESTION IS THAT FROM NOW ON THEY PUBLISH ONLY EMPTY PAGES INSERTED BETWEEN TWO COVERS. THAT WAY THEY CAN SAY IT’S A VIRTUAL BOOK. THIS WORLD HAS TRULY BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, SHAKEN A FEW TIMES, AND THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN IT LANDS.

]]> By: Steve Browne http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-29906 Steve Browne Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:05:12 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-29906 I comment on this on my blog, which post cannot be reproduced here because I am infuriated to the point I'm allowing myself to indulge in profanity and personal insult. (That means you John Donatich, and your "committee of experts" you contemptible cowards.) What I am doing is reporducing my favorite among the Danish cartoons here http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2009/08/heres-my-favorite-cartoon.html and urging all fellow-bloggers who love freedom to do likewise. I am blogging under my own name, but not everyone might care to do so. Freedom is not negotiable. I comment on this on my blog, which post cannot be reproduced here because I am infuriated to the point I’m allowing myself to indulge in profanity and personal insult. (That means you John Donatich, and your “committee of experts” you contemptible cowards.)

What I am doing is reporducing my favorite among the Danish cartoons
here http://rantsand.blogspot.com/2009/08/heres-my-favorite-cartoon.html
and urging all fellow-bloggers who love freedom to do likewise. I am blogging under my own name, but not everyone might care to do so.

Freedom is not negotiable.

]]> By: Martin Kramer, Yale’s trahison des clercs, and the ‘cargo cult’ of Middle Eastern Studies « Sleepy Old Bear Diaries http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-29476 Martin Kramer, Yale’s trahison des clercs, and the ‘cargo cult’ of Middle Eastern Studies « Sleepy Old Bear Diaries Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:40:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-29476 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Terry Hughes http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-28935 Terry Hughes Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:57:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-28935 "I suspect President Levin is more interested in knowing how much more Muslims, especially the Saudis, might contribute were Yale to be — how shall I put this? — pleasing in their eyes?" But publishing this book, with or without the cartoons, seems likely to make Yale far LESS pleasing in such eyes. I have not read it, but the book is reported to be deeply critical of conservative Islamic thinking and conservative behavior in this incident. Assuming such reports are correct, YUP and President Levin are highly unlikely to have thought that the inflamation of conservative Islamic sentiment caused by publishing this deeply critical book could be reversed to curry favor in that same quarter merely by deleting the cartoons. Yale and Levin are not stupid. Moreover, if seeking moneyed Islamic favor were the point, Yale could easilly have found any number of quiet and plausible reasons for not accepting the book at all, or for cancelling its publication at the last minute, especially given current economic conditions. I am not sure what to make of Yale's proffered explanation that it wished to avoid violence. But telling the world that Yale removed the cartoons because it feared violence from conservative Islamic interests seems almost calculated to simultaneously irritate both those interests and the most intense critics of those interests. That doesn't savor of subtle intrigue on Yale or Levin's part. Of course neither does it validate Yale's explanation. “I suspect President Levin is more interested in knowing how much more Muslims, especially the Saudis, might contribute were Yale to be — how shall I put this? — pleasing in their eyes?”

But publishing this book, with or without the cartoons, seems likely to make Yale far LESS pleasing in such eyes.

I have not read it, but the book is reported to be deeply critical of conservative Islamic thinking and conservative behavior in this incident. Assuming such reports are correct, YUP and President Levin are highly unlikely to have thought that the inflamation of conservative Islamic sentiment caused by publishing this deeply critical book could be reversed to curry favor in that same quarter merely by deleting the cartoons. Yale and Levin are not stupid.

Moreover, if seeking moneyed Islamic favor were the point, Yale could easilly have found any number of quiet and plausible reasons for not accepting the book at all, or for cancelling its publication at the last minute, especially given current economic conditions.

I am not sure what to make of Yale’s proffered explanation that it wished to avoid violence. But telling the world that Yale removed the cartoons because it feared violence from conservative Islamic interests seems almost calculated to simultaneously irritate both those interests and the most intense critics of those interests. That doesn’t savor of subtle intrigue on Yale or Levin’s part. Of course neither does it validate Yale’s explanation.

]]> By: Remember bomb-head Mo ? « Sleepy Old Bear Diaries http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-28702 Remember bomb-head Mo ? « Sleepy Old Bear Diaries Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:20:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-28702 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Inrptrn http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-28583 Inrptrn Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:40:52 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-28583 31. I think what you are implying is that if those of us upsetted by this display of cowardice from one of America's most prestigous institutions were to riot in the streets and kill people we will ensure that Yale will always publish Islamic cartoon images in the future. 31.
I think what you are implying is that if those of us upsetted by this display of cowardice from one of America’s most prestigous institutions were to riot in the streets and kill people we will ensure that Yale will always publish Islamic cartoon images in the future.

]]> By: Z-Lo http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/14/villain-or-fall-guy-yale-and-the-case-of-the-missing-cartoons/#comment-28491 Z-Lo Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:40:18 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/?p=1304#comment-28491 What is interesting is that by publishing anything about the incident you are forced to fall on one side or the other by including the cartoons or not. Unfortunately this frame of debate was a straw man set up by the right-wing european media's point of view that is a world apart from how the controversy looked to many muslims. It seems this makes it just about impossible to approach the subject calmly and above the fray, which is exactly what is needed. What is interesting is that by publishing anything about the incident you are forced to fall on one side or the other by including the cartoons or not. Unfortunately this frame of debate was a straw man set up by the right-wing european media’s point of view that is a world apart from how the controversy looked to many muslims. It seems this makes it just about impossible to approach the subject calmly and above the fray, which is exactly what is needed.

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