ANOTHER PROFILE IN COURAGE - AT 7:59 A.M. ET:  From the academic world, which is forever defending, on grounds of "academic freedom," the rights of leftist professors to write and say the most vile things, whether they have any academic content or not:

Yale University is refusing to publish cartoons and images of the Prophet Muhammad in a new book about those very pictures, which inflamed anger in parts of the Muslim world in 2006 — even as a growing tide of writers and artists say they are ready to take such risks for free speech.

The university's press is set to publish a book in November, "The Cartoons That Shook the World," about the dozen devious illustrations of Muhammad printed in Danish newspapers, leading to global riots in which at least 200 people were killed.

The New York Times more or less rationalized the decision Thursday in reporting Yale's choice to reject the images, saying it was "not at all surprising" the school would opt out of printing the notorious pictures of Muhammad. Many Muslims consider any depiction of Muhammad to be blasphemous.

COMMENT: Ah, yes, The New York Times, which endlessly tells us about the "people's right to know" - especially when it's publishing national secrets on intelligence operations.

Hypocrisy flows.

August 13, 2009