[Assam] part 1-- NYT--Student Press - Us and Them -- California Textbook Revisions

[umesh sharma]

it didn't go thru the first time.

 

Umesh

umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Despite excellent academics - many students in  western universities and public  schools do not know what is considered in bad taste or downright blasphemous in faiths other than Christianity . Here is something about views and portrayal of Islam and Hinduism by some students and academics.

 

Umesh

 

PS: I would say that just becos someone insulted Jews in Islamic govt owned media doesnot mean that Western media does the same to Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism. There are lotsof people of faiths other than Christianity or Judaism in the West and say in India (a non Islamic nation with 150 muslims)

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Illinois Student Paper Prints Muslim Cartoons, and Reaction Is Swift 

 

By MONICA DAVEY

Published: February 17, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/17/national/17cartoons.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 16 — Since the morning the cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad were republished in the student newspaper at the University of Illinois here, response has been swift and split. ....Muslim students and others held a protest on the main quadrangle on Tuesday,...

 

"We did this to raise a healthy dialogue about an important issue that is in the news and so that people would learn more about Islam. Now, I'm basically fired."

 

Most major American newspapers, including The New York Times, have not published the cartoons, which were first published in a Danish newspaper last September.

But on college campuses, student journalists are still grappling with the decision, saying the choice of most of the nation's newspapers makes theirs even more crucial. Editors at some student publications at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, Northern Illinois University and Illinois State University have published some of the cartoons.

 

The decisions have set off a painful clash, seemingly pitting two of the values so often embraced in university environments — freedom of speech and sensitivity to other cultures — directly against each other...

 

...Shaz Kaiseruddin, a third-year law student and president of the Muslim Student Association, said she awoke to a phone call from an angry colleague.

"I was in disbelief that they would do this," Ms. Kaiseruddin, 24, said. "That our own student-based newspaper would be so ignorant and disrespectful."

Producing any image of Muhammad is considered blasphemous by many Muslims, and reproducing such anti-Muslim images, she said, revealed no understanding of the pain that would carry. Students met to plan a response.

 

Richard Herman, the chancellor of the university, sent a letter criticizing the newspaper, which is published independently..."

Umesh Sharma
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

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