On September 24, 2009, FIRE interviewed Flemming Rose, cultural editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, about the censorship by Yale University Press of the controversial Mohammed cartoons he commissioned in 2005 to be published in his newspaper as an exercise of freedom of expression. The cartoons and several other previously uncontroversial images of Mohammed were removed from the book about the cartoons themselves, The Cartoons That Shook the World, in a widely criticized exercise of cowardice in the face of nonexistent threats.
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The University of Delaware case is a quintessential example of good intentions gone horribly, horribly wrong. The school has given “sustainability” such a bad name among conservative critics—even those who have been warming to environmentalism—that it will take years to undo the damage.