Wednesday, February 01, 2006

The Satanic sketches / Economist, 1 Feb 2006

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5464456&fsrc=RSS
"IF THE aim was to provoke a reasoned debate about self-censorship, religious intolerance and the freedom of speech, the editors of Jyllands-Posten failed miserably. Last September Denmark's biggest-selling daily broadsheet noted that a local author could not find artists to illustrate his book about Muhammad. So the paper published a series of cartoons depicting the prophet in various guises, along with an article arguing that self-censorship - rules large parts of the western world"