Duke Professor Publishes Book with Muhammad Images

By SPME
November 17, 2009
Source: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)

http:// www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/17/qt#213468

Many advocates for free speech were outraged when Yale University Press, in publishing a book about the controversy over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, refused to publish the cartoons themselves. Gary Hull, a Duke University professor, decided the best response would be to publish a book that included the controversial images, and through his new Voltaire Press, he has now done so. The book, Muhammad: The “Banned” Images, includes an introduction by Hull on “the basic choice between free speech and force, and the ethical issues involved in suppressing free scholarly discourse for the sake of multiculturalism,” as well as a survey of the history of images of Muhammad.

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Duke Professor Publishes Book with Muhammad Images

Duke Professor Publishes Book with Muhammad Images

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