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Danish Cartoons Illustrated in New Book of Images of Muhammad - Just as FBI Arrests Two for Conspiring to Kill the Cartoons' Publisher

Posted : Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:01:35 GMT
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 09, 2009 ) Durham, N.C. - The provocatively titled Muhammad: The "Banned" Images adds another chapter to the saga of the Danish cartoons, which were back in the news recently after the FBI arrested David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana for plotting to kill Flemming Rose. Rose is the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that sponsored and first published the controversial cartoons back in 2005.

In August, Yale University Press announced that it would exclude all images of Muhammad from The Cartoons that Shook the World, a book by Brandeis professor Jyette Klausen. The Press cited an anonymous panel of experts who claimed that publication of the illustrations "ran a serious risk of instigating violence." Muhammad: The "Banned" Images, with an introduction by Duke professor Gary Hull, fills the rift in Klausen's book with 31 high-quality, full-color images of Muhammad. Complete with captions, the images span the 12th through 21st centuries, and include paintings by Muslim artists working in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires, as well as paintings and drawings by William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Salvador Dali. 

Hull points out, "Muhammad: The 'Banned' Images is a 'picture book' – or errata to the bowdlerized version of Klausen's book. It is of course more than that. It is a statement of defiance against censors, terror-mongers, and their Western appeasers. It is a rallying cry for free speech, freedom of the press, and for open scholarship unfettered by fear." Hull has been involved with the Danish cartoon controversy since 2006, when his program at Duke hosted a speech by Flemming Rose. His introduction includes a brief survey of the reaction of Western intellectuals to Muslim violence and threats, including the Rushdie fatwa, the Theo van Gogh assassination, and Yale University Press's recent spineless self-censorship.

The consequences of self-censorship are reiterated in a Statement of Principle with distinguished signatories: "The failure to stand up for free expression emboldens those who would attack and undermine it. … It is incumbent on those responsible for the education of the next generation of leaders to stand up for certain basic principles: that the free exchange of ideas is essential to liberal democracy; that each person is entitled to hold and express his or her own views without fear of bodily harm; and that the suppression of ideas is a form of repression used by authoritarian regimes around the world to control and dehumanize their citizens and squelch opposition. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, will get neither liberty nor safety."

Dr. Hull is available for interviews. Contact him at voltairepress@live.com or by calling (919) 660-5608. 

Muhammad: The "Banned" Images (ISBN 978-0-615-32421-0) is available for $15.00 from Amazon or from Voltaire Press, at www.MuhammadImages.com.
      

Voltaire Press
         Gary Hull
         (919) 660-5608 
         voltairepress@live.com
                    
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