Yale University censored a book featuring a controversial illustration of Muhammad.
The image of the Islamic prophet was to appear in a forthcoming scholarly work by professor Jytte Klausen titled “The Cartoons That Shook the World.”
It was the same illustration that appeared in a Danish newspaper in 2005 and led to widespread demonstrations across the Islamic world for the alleged defamation of Muhammad.
The American Jewish Committee protested Yale’s decision in a letter addressed to John Donatich, director of the Yale University Press, saying the decision curbed academic freedom. — jta