From ABC News:
(02/10/06 — CHAPEL HILL) – A political cartoon in a student newspaper is triggering protests on campus.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Muslim Students Association is demanding an apology after a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed appeared in the Daily Tar Heel newspaper.
“It’s very disrespectful, and I find it racist,” said student Rafsan Khan, a Muslim. “I find it discrimination, too.”…
The Muslim Students Association’s response to the cartoon was published in today’s Daily Tar Heel. It says the paper was insensitive for running the depiction of Mohammad, but newspaper editor Ryan Tuck says he had a reason for printing the cartoon. He issued a statement on his blog, explaining his decision to run the cartoon, but offered no apology…
Tuck defends the cartoon and the freedom of expression, saying it is a newspaper’s job to spark dialogue, to provoke, and to challenge. But Muslim students on campus like Aisha Saad feel that job could have been done without using such a controversial cartoon.
“That’s what made it more of an injury, because there’s no remorse or reasoning behind it,” Saad said…