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I got my Internet Storm Center Diary up. 5 critical security updates for Windows coming next Tuesday…
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Related Posts:DI Reprints Mohammed Cartoons…
I got wind of this early, but today the Daily Illini reprinted the infamous Mohammed Cartoons and as was expected, they were flooded with phone calls, letters, etc. The news has broken nationally with the old editor and chief posting updates.
Personally, I don’t know how I feel about it except to say that the new editor meant to prove a point and got the reaction he wanted. At some point I’ll write on my opinions of the mischaracterizing of free speech (private citizens influencing others to not run things is not a free speech issue, certainly not in terms of the 1st Amendment), but the situation is pretty deep in all the issues it covers. I’m trying to put together a panel discussion on the issue, we’ll see where it goes.
Michelle Malkin plugs it and more on the issue.
UPDATE: Here is the Chancellor’s response.
UPDATE 2: Here’s a brief quote from the AP article out on the subject (Not known is it is linked online anywhere yet)…
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Student-run newspaper reprints some of Danish newspaper’s cartoonsCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - The student-run newspaper that serves the University of Illinois community on Thursday ran reprints of some of the cartoons whose publication has sparked outrage and violence in many parts of the Islamic world.
The Daily Illini, which is independent of the UI, ran only six of the 12 cartoons first published in September in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, but led with the one that has caused the greatest furor: a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as part of his turban.
