Canadian Professor ordered to remove Mohammed cartoons from office door

judeoscope ^ | 8 February 2006

[ncountylee]

Philosophy professor Peter March was ordered by the administration of St. Mary’s University in Halifax, to take down cartoons from his office door. The cartoons in question are copies of the 12 Danish drawings of Mohammed manipulated by Muslim Brotherhood clerics and embattled regimes to whip up Muslim anger at the West and send infuriated Muslims on a path of death and destruction for the last few days.

The Canadian Press reports that "the administration told March to take down the cartoons because the space outside his door is considered a public place and caricatures are considered very disrespectful by many members of the Muslim community".

That these doors are considered "public space" will come as a novelty to anyone who’s ever set foot in a university building; it has become a university tradition for professors to post on their office doors political cartoons dealing with the hot issues of the day or questions their research examinates. As to the question of disrespect, universities should not even go near there, if they want to remain, as they should, to uphold the principles of freedom of thought and free debate.

In response to this nonsense, Professor March argues he should be allowed to show the drawings to his students and added he would probably show them in his class on Thursday. "There’s a great deal in my collective agreement that says that what I am doing, which is engaging public discussion using my skills as a philosopher, is part of my job description," he said. Indeed it is!

[ncountylee]

Heck...in the US it would be hard to find a professor willing to post the cartoons.

[SJSAMPLE]

Make political statements on your own time and on your own property. Bringing politics to work, wherever that is, is bad Ju-Ju.

[mainepatsfan]

Way to stand up for free speech! /s

[Firefigher NC]

"Bringing politics to work, wherever that is, is bad Ju-Ju."

Not if you're a college professor of philosophy. Politics tends to be the nature of the business in classes where you debate ideas and all.

[Steveone]

Here we have terrorists working in our collage's!

[Kozak]

Really? Bet if they were pics of "Bushitler" it would be OK for the prof.

[George - the Other]

"Philosophy professor Peter March was ordered by the administration of St. Mary’s University in Halifax, to take down cartoons from his office door. The cartoons in question are copies of the 12 Danish drawings of Mohammed manipulated by Muslim Brotherhood clerics and embattled regimes to whip up Muslim anger at the West and send infuriated Muslims on a path of death and destruction for the last few days."

Cripes. One of my piano students tells me that her social studies teacher bashes Bush every day. Columbia, MD

[Jeremiah2911]

The administration has a FATWA-phobia.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Coming soon: Professor ordered to remove from reading assignments books that contain unfavorable comments about Islam. "Insensitive towards Islam. . .likely to cause rioting," says University.

[VOA]

That these doors are considered "public space" will come as a novelty
to anyone who’s ever set foot in a university building; it has
become a university tradition for professors to post on their office
doors political cartoons dealing with the hot issues of the day or
questions their research examinates.

Yeah, and all the ones I ever saw at UCLA were slams at Dubya.
Or other conservatives.

But of course, this is not considered as some sort of secular missionary
mission done on the taxpayers' dollars...

[VOA]

I suspect that if the professor had drawn a cartoon of Harper and Dubya
doing a "Brokeback Mountain", he'd have gotten a pay raise and a
round of cheers from the hallway. And most of the faculty.

[ncountylee]

Yeah, and all the ones I ever saw at UCLA were slams at Dubya.

Most at Penn State (60's) were peace movement and anti-LBJ.

[bubman]

All the prof has to do is offer links to where the pictures can be found.

here's one:

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20062716.asp

[claudiustg]

--- Bringing politics to work, wherever that is, is bad Ju-Ju.---

Everything is bad ju-ju with Muslims.

[Steveone]

We need to hire this guy for a job opening up at CU

[Right Wing Professor]

Heck...in the US it would be hard to find a professor willing to post the cartoons.

Oh, it's not that hard.

[P-Marlowe]

You were the first person I thought of when I read this. I thought of your Darwin Fish T-Shirt that you wore to class.

Kudos for having the courage to post that on your blog.

Now, are you willing to wear it on a T-Shirt in class?

[isrul]

Actually, I think the postal service should issue first class stamps bearing these drawings. They are beautiful art if you believe art should represent truth. There should be t-shirts, sweat shirts, posters billboards, murals, bumper stickers everywhere, displaying these works of art. I want the muzzies to go completely off so that western civilization can do what needs to be done, without any serious opposition, except from the usual suspects.

I want every member of this death cult to know they are reviled, despised, ridiculed and disrespected by all civilized people.