Glen Ellyn,(Illinois): A weekly student newspaper at a Chicago-area community college has published a series of cartoons that have sparked outrage and violence around the Islamic world in recent months.
The Courier at the College of DuPage printed the controversial Prophet Mohammad cartoons in its Friday’s editions along with an article on why the newspaper published the drawings.
The newspaper said it felt that in order to cover an event held on Monday at the suburban Chicago campus that featured editorial cartoonist who spoke about the cartoons, the paper had to print them.
"Our hope in printing these images is not to incite anger or create news, but rather to cover a story and to allow for open discussion on this campus," said the article, which was signed Courier staff.
The paper said the cartoons were printed only after the Courier's editorial board agreed to it. Courier editor-in-chief Kristina Zaremba said last night that she stands by the newspaper's decision to publish the cartoons and plans to run an editorial in the paper's next issue responding to the many letters it has received.
"Our belief in free speech is absolute. It's not just because we are not Muslim. If these had been Christian cartoons, it wouldn't have made a difference," she said.
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