Academic and Free-Speech Groups Join Criticism of Yale U. Press Over Cartoons

Jennifer Howard writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education today,

Criticism continues to rain down on Yale University and Yale University Press for their decision to remove all images of the Prophet Muhammad from a forthcoming scholarly book, The Cartoons That Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen.
Now the National Coalition Against Censorship and a group of academic and free-speech organizations have sent a letter of protest to Yale’s president, Richard C. Levin, and the Yale Corporation. “This misguided action established a dangerous precedent that threatens academic and intellectual freedom around the world,” the coalition wrote. It said that the university’s action “compromises the principle and practice of academic freedom, undermines the independence of the press, damages the university’s credibility, and diminishes its reputation for scholarship.”
via Academic and Free-Speech Groups Join Criticism of Yale U. Press Over Cartoons in Book – Publishing – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Yale had withdrawn the cartoons from the book for fear of offending Muslims and inciting violence.