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Via reader Michael Stuber;
An offering by the University of Saskatchewan publication, the Sheaf, which chose not to publish the Jyllands-Posten cartoons out of respect for Islam.
Read this too, from former Sheaf news editor Jeremy Warren.
Related – Too many Christians, not enough lions? (link fixed)
Lost Budgie weighs in.
Update – from the comments, University of Saskatchewan President Peter MacKinnon has reportedly issued the following by email;
I feel I must publicly communicate with our campus community on what I have just seen in the student newspaper.
In the February 23 edition of the Sheaf, the editors explained that they would not publish the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. It is surprising that they did not exercise similar restraint in their decision to publish ‘Capitalist Piglet’ in the March 2 issue of the paper. This is a cartoon that is certain to cause distress to members of our community. It has divisive shock value only and does nothing to advance the understanding or debate for which universities should be distinguished.
The Sheaf should apologize to us all.
Peter MacKinnon
President
Monday March 6 update: The cartoonist “Y!th” responds in the comments – after a fashion. Just keep scrolling
The heat is on now – Rawlco radio news is reporting the story, as is the local CTV affiliate. The story out of the Sheaf is that the publication of this cartoon was an error – a breakdown in the editorial review process, or something to that effect – and that an apology will be forthcoming in the next issue. (One is already up at their website). The managing editor Will Robbins,has tendered his resignation, but so far, hasn’t spoken publicly.
I’ll tell you why I’m not buying this – the Sheaf was out for days before the explanation and apology were offered. Editorial mis-step? Does the staff not read their own paper after publication? A true error would have been proactively addressed and an apology/retraction issued immediately. It would have also been yanked from the website.
Not until the cartoon was featured here, and the media began to pick up on the story did anyone see fit to respond.
A new blog, Boycott the Sheaf has awarded the “ULTIMATE HYPOCRITICAL
ADVERTISING AWARD” to McNally Robinson Booksellers, who pulled the Western Standard magazine from the shelves because they contained the Jyllands-Posten cartoons in the context of a news story.
Mar.7 Update
Saskatoon Star Phoenix has now picked up the story.
RE: Capitalist Piglet – So let me see, the Sheik, er, the Sheaf says it’s ok not to publish the Muslim cartoons out of “respect”
…but publish one towards Christianity…
Uh huh…glad to see UofS students are smart enough to figure out which respect is best, don’t want any beheading or building burning right?
Michael S. I’m a U. of S. grad of the ’50’s. I will certainly write a letter to the editor and to president Mackinnon. Why is it that only the idiots get to decide what is printable? I’m all for contacting the advertisers. There’s nothing like losing funding to smarten them up, whereas demonstrations will just reinforce their claim to media fame.
That cartoon is most defnitely offensive, it certainly insults the dignity of Christians. I am offended. Thanks for posting it, though. It was necessary.
By the way, “Life of Brian” was was hilarious. Poking fun at the life of Christ and the interpretational errors of Christians isn’t always offensive, if you have even a slight funny bone.
“Bring back mandatory military service. 2 years of military service for everyone after highschool will eliminate PC/Leftist idiocy forever.”
While I’m sure that it would do them some good (I know that my time in the infantry certainly did)
I wonder:
Who would want to count on one of these writers to watch their back in, say, Afghanistan?
Not me.
Warrwick .. I couldn’t agree more …
I have thought that very thought ofen.
I live in the USA in the 60s and 70s and many male persons I met had done their two years and they were no mommy’s boys. They learned a bit about responsibility and had developed some good personal skills.
I was rock musician in Cleveland Ohio for many years and I saw lots of young men go in and come out. They went in as kids and came back as men.
They had an air of confidence that can only come from a good dose of reality and being away from the ‘nurturing’ environment for a couple of years.
What a great idea. Glad you said it.
It will not happen here thought. Too bad.
Duke
Double standard hypocrisy, plain and simple. In our muddled middle society, if anyone screams, burns things, stops speakers, well, then they obviously feel strongly and therefore must be right. That is why there is open season on Christianity, Jesus Christ, etal. By and large, Christians don’t go on rampages, kill, behead people or blow things up. In our non-logical society, that means they don’t fell strongly about these issues, and are, therefore, wrong. One of these days we will figure our the anti-modernists (Islamists, extreme environmentalists, anti-globalists, etc – you know, the ones who think George Bush is the world’s worst terrorist) hate our society, but have no problem cashing the cheques. That is hypocrisy, and if we don’t recognize these hateful, bigoted people for what they are, they will be the ruin of us
also wrote to the president, a little more serious toned letter, so hopefully will get an apology. Will print here if you want Kate.
cheers
tom
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As per our phone conversation, I am appalled at the udder disregard “in the name of free speech” done towards Christianity in a recent publication of the students newspaper, the Sheaf.
I am of course referring to the cartoons on page A16.
Totally tasteless and shameless mockery of a faith – anyone’s.
As I understand it, the publication wouldn’t publish the Danish cartoons out of “respect for Islam”, but it is alright towards Christianity? As well as a hidden anti-semantic jab at the Jewish faith – “it kosher if you don’t swallow” is a double insult.
Again, this being from a distinguished higher education facility as the University of Saskatchewan is this what one is to expect as moral standards being taught today?
Sincerely
Tom McLaughlin
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Silly little bunch of adolescent intellectual wannabees trying to be noticed. Oh how shocking. Give me a break. It’s always nice to watch them when the real world and reality shocks them.
ha! I meant utter…
Freudian reference slip of flatlanders…
Like Doug, Sheila and some other commentators, I was a leftie in university. I’m only 24, so that was very recently. My professors all taught that “White Male Patriarchal Capitalist Imperialist Hegemony” (re-arrange those words however you like) was source of all the world’s problems. Taking a pro-capitalist stance would’ve meant ridicule and name-calling.
During a social work class discussion of First Nations issues, an Aboriginal classmate brought up the corruption and nepotism on her home reserve, and the problems her mother encountered when going through a divorce. She was told that she sounded like a white male by another classmate, to which the prof said nothing. It was at that point that I started to realize the true nature of the brand of pomo/socialism that’s so common on university campuses.
I’m not a Christian, the anti-capitalist nature of the cartoon displeases me, but that is their editorial right. What offends me more is their blatant and unapologetic hypocrisy.
Behold the titanic, brobdingnagian hypocrisy, bigotry, double standards and utter contemptiblity of the left!
At least we Judeo-Christians, despite taking great offence, aren’t going around lopping off peoples’ heads and whatnot.
See the differences?
Another nail in the coffin of leftism… which will eventually experience its undoing… like East Berlin and the USSR.
Leftism is a dangerous force. Leftists are not only incredibly self-destructive in their attempt to escape the emptiness and despair stemming from a life without values, without goals, without tradition, without intelligence… they align with the most evil forces on earth and against all that is good and which stands against evil.
Leftists are effectively opposed to freedom, democracy and the rule of law, for they live not by any of these gifts given to them by many who paid the ultimate price so they could live with them. Let us turn our backs towards leftists. Make them realize they are outsiders and will be treated as such.
Stomp on leftism! DOWN with leftism!
Kate, I wish these university followers of ward churchills and their ilk and the msm would just read 534 and 535 verses of the koran and see if they still have this great respect of islam. Better yet publish those verses in their worthless rags. Thanks Kate
guess someone should remind the papers editors what there mandate is…. they certainly were not paying attention to there supossed creed.
The Sheaf – Student Newspaper
The Sheaf is a non-profit, student-run newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan. Its mission is to inform and entertain University of Saskatchewan students by addressing relevant student issues; by encouraging pluralistic thought and discourse; and by enabling students to practice progressive, accountable, and ethical newspaper publishing. The Sheaf shall strive to offer practical support to students interested in learning about newspaper publishing; operate in a democratic, accountable manner, practice honest communication; perform ongoing, informal reviews; and celebrate the efforts of its volunteers.
All undergraduate students pay an annual fee to support the newspaper; however, advertising revenues account for the majority of the Sheaf�s operating budget.
Selected annually from among the full-time undergraduate students, the Sheaf staff and Directors are responsible for publishing a weekly newspaper during the Regular Session.
Students are encouraged to contact the Sheaf�s editors about contributing artwork and writing, and undergraduate students may become part of the Sheaf Publishing Society�s Collective. For further information, Tel: 306-966-8688.
“Why publish something like and not the Muslim parodies?” William MacDonell ( # 1 Comment ).
“The Danish cartoons? What cartoons?” The Left is intellectually/morally bankrupt; they know it. The Left is a barren wilderness; a valley of dry bones; a valley of death.
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Some observations from Tim Blair:
The forbidden cartoons of Mohammadness have been published more widely in Muslim countries than in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada combined. In Malaysia alone, three newspapers ran images � compared to just two newspapers in Australia.
Not a single major US daily went near them.
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Commentary
I think the real reason for the reluctance among Anglospheric publications to print the Danish cartoons was less timidity than the fear of tacitly repudiating the underlying assumption of the President Bush’s War on Terror, that the West is not at war with Islam but only with a small group of extremists who have corrupted “the religion of peace”. The Danish cartoons threatened to convert this limited war into a more general confrontation between the value systems of the West and Islam. Why, one might ask, should the media, with no love lost for President Bush, care at all about protecting the key assumption of his limited war? The reason I think, is that the Left in their reflexive opposition to President Bush since the invasion of Iraq had not bothered to create a war strategy of their own. The nomination of Senator John Kerry in 2004 was an attempt to offer up the appearance of an alternative rather than a rival strategy. He was a placeholder for a policy that didn’t exist. Trapped in the mental world of the 20th century, the Left had not decided how to respond to the challenge of the 21st. In marked contrast to the Cold War, in which 9 successive US administrations pursued the common policy of containment against the Soviet Union, the war after September 11 was characterized by the absence of a strategic consensus. President George Bush had a strategic vision; and the Democrats an endless supply of peanuts which they were prepared to pitch from the gallery.
Once the Danish cartoon crisis threatened to knock the props out from under President Bush’s limited war on Islamic renegades and escalate it to a “clash of civilizations” the barrenness of the Lefist intellectual cupboard became obvious even to themselves. There was no recipe to deal with this contingency. A “clash of civilizations” would pull matters from their grasp precisely because they refused to touch it in the first place. They could only continue to pretend Islamism didn’t exist; and so they thrust their heads into the sand even further. The Danish cartoons? What cartoons? +
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
tomax:
“ha! I meant u(dd)er…”
I thought that was a send up on my “Blessed are the cheesemakers” Monty Python reference.
BTW Feisty I slipped in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” as a study in contrast.
Given the Danish are noted cheesemakers; would that be Yarlsberg or Havarti?
Perhaps we should send some Danish cheese to Iranian President who has on his mind the destruction of Israel by means of nuclear Holocaust.
Of course Adminewhackjob wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near his diabolical dream were it not for famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr or is that Niels BOAR?
For an electrifying read consider Hans Christian �rsted noted for discoveries in electromagnetism.
Alternately, Soren Kierkegaard will help with existential angst but be no help in making your way to heaven. Ironically, within the world of philosophy, S�ren Kierkegaard has become known as the GODfather of existentialism.
But I have always been in favour of world CHEESE.
So don’t be afraid of harsh cheeses when you can just EDAM and GOUDA.
So I commend you to that famous Monty dictum:
“Blessed are the cheesemakers for the kingdom of God is theirs.”
Beats the HELL out of the Iranian president’s nuclear incineration proposal. On the other hand, if Adminewhackjob gets his wish we can all talk to GOD directly, no translator required.
Albert Einstein noted when grappling with quantum physics and Heisenberg�s uncertainty principle:
�God does not play dice with the universe.�
Of course God may or may not play dice with the universe; but this does not appear to stop man from attempting to �roll the dice� with mankind. As Hans Bethe, Nobel physics laureate and chief theoretical physicist on the Manhattan project noted if World War 3 is going to use hydrogen bombs the following war would be fought with sticks and stones. Apparently death and destruction doesn�t have much to commend it.
So practice disrimination when selecting fine wine, women and above all cheeses.
Now where did my Dutch wife hide the GOUDA!?!
Blessed are the cheesemakers indeed.
I’ve got a similar story to tell, which involves a letter I wrote to my campus newspaper regarding a similarly outrageous anti-Christian cartoon. I’ll post more later.
Y’know, there are three categories of people in society who need to be rigorously and routinely ignored when it comes to serious opinions on just about anything:
Students, actors and models.
It’s anti-semitic, since Jesus was Jewish. Let’s see someone complain to the human-rights commission.
Oh, and I’m sure Muslims will be pleased to see the prophet Jesus portrayed as a cocksucker. I expect Place Riel to be burning soon.
I went to U of S in the early 90s, and know the sheaf well; we used to call it The Shit. C’mon Sheaf, have some guts and at least be *consistent*.
Well at least it’s funnier than the Danish cartoons.
Makes me proud to be a U of S student
This sort of thing really represents the mind set of a lot of western “progressives” as they call themselves, who seem to have a systemic loathing of themselves and their culture and history. This self-loathing means that it is exceptable to say anyt…
“Well at least it’s funnier than the Danish cartoons.” — Jose.
Thanks for coming out, Jose.
Trapped in the mental world of the 20th century, the Left had not decided how to respond to the challenge of the 21st.
Heh, while keeping the Biblically illiterate right busy with nonsensical cartoons the left has quietly moved on. It’s called the Third Way and you’ve already been recruited.
No Way, Jose, the Mohamad cartoons actually were intelligent; they made sence: they related to events in teh real world: for example, I enjoyed the one where mohammed, flanked by two women in burkas, had his eys blacked-out: the women where enitrely blacked out by the burkas, excoet for their eys, which could see. Or Mohamed telling the long line of singed bombers:”stop! we ran out of virgins!” funny stuff.
The response from many of teh fanatics being targetted was predictably was midieval.
What is wrong with you, Jose?
i agree that most students, especially those who have never earned a living or paid taxes, naturally len towards utopian lefty ideals. many of them switch to the right when they enter the real world.
a large part of the problem is the culture of those teaching them. tenured professors are just professional students enjoying their entitlements.
osgoode hall law school was insanely far left leaning. my first year property law prof showed up the first day in a t-shirt that was emblazoned with “property is theft”.
“Well at least it’s funnier than the Danish cartoons.”
Not at all.
The Danish cartoons weren’t especially clever, but at least they were relevant.
what point, exactly, does this cartoon make about a real contemporary issue?
Provocation without relevance is not satire.
Kate I’ve got a similar case about an anti-Christian cartoon you might want to see here. I’ve got the whole story posted to my blog. Here’s the address of the post:
http://uncommontruths.blogspot.com/2006/03/another-campus-newspaper-features-anti.html
Allen –
Sounds like that prof would fit in nicely if he/she were filling a spot on the bench of the SCOC.
The graphics stink. It has the artist integrity of a crayoned napkin. The message and the context are a potpourri of hackneyed shallow leftist bumpersticker memes.
I guess if you are 18, you’ve scored in the teeny-bop shock jock world. (This kid would do better majoring in denistry.)
I’ll take the metaphor, art and satire of bomb turbined Mohammed any day. Well developed, timely and on target.
kevin,
they also offered a course called ‘corporation as criminal’.
however, i always enjoy getting my annual call for alumni donations and explaining to them that it would be hypocritical of me to expect that they would accept money from a capitalist. as such, i would not insult them by offering them any of my ill-gotten gains. although, the callers never seem to get it.
Comments above about LW students turning into RWers reminds me of an old saying: “a young person that is not LW has no heart, and old person that is not RW has no brain”.
good quote bushman.
I contribute to the U of S every year;
I just told them (via e-mail)that I would be taing a break: then I decided to shift my suport to STM, the Catholic college.
btw, i never commented on the cartoon directly. i am assuming that the capitalist piglet is a regular feature in this rag. the name of the cartoon is fair warning, i guess. socialists and far lefty’s are crude and intellectually dishonest.
oh, the irony. they don’t understand that they have the right to do this only because of the funding provided by those that they shamefully and disgustingly attack.
it’s gratuitous vile garbage with no punchline. it’s not funny or interesting. i’m not a christian, but it makes me sick. do they have the right to print it? yes.
i have the right as well to call them scumbags and spineless twits for printing this at the same time they declare they will not print the much more innocuous danish cartoons. the sheaf is morally bankrupt, shallow and insignificant.
you people are asswipes, sorry kate, can i say that?
“Well at least it’s funnier than the Danish cartoons.”
Posted by Jose at March 3, 2006 05:01 PM
Thanks for showing your true colours.
Allen-
Thanks for your further comments, great response to their funding requests.
Of course they wouldn’t get it, they probably believe that you’d be relieved to offer up as “atonement” for your capitalist “sins”!
These morons have tenure at what is supposedly Canada’s finest law school?!! Mind-boggling!
No wonder so many lawyers who enter politics seem to have such screwed-up lines of reasoning. You must be made of better stuff to escape with your good sense intact.
kevin, most lawyers are businesspeople, they shed the left thing after practicing. the odd public exception is someone like clayton ruby. he has a lot of family money to cushion everything else. he has the room to move. he has chosen to act for the left.
the other exception is feminists doing family law. they’re agenda is to destroy dads. men are evil.
the vast majority of us are people that with whom you would enjoy having a drink. especially me, and if you’re buying, i’m in.
sorry for my gram errors. please replace.
the majority are those with which you would enjoy
Send an e-mail to the editor, they won’t print it, but they will read it.
Laugh at them and their pathetic logic.
Ask them about their hypocrisy.
Ask them if they know that all the issues that are near and dear to them aren’t shared by the religion they chose to respect.
Mock them.
Be condescending.
Treat them like the intellectually weak children of the nanny state.
Show them no respect because they have earned none.
Ask them when they will be ready to help Canada join the ranks of the grown up countries.
The Sheaf: editor@thesheaf.com
Allen-
Don’t get me wrong, it was “most lawyers entering politics”, not “most lawyers”. Most lawyers I’ve met I like.
There are some empty skulls on some though, like that Bay Street lawyer who claimed that PMSH had said something incredibly sexist when he remarked that Stronach never seemed to be very “complex”. I don’t know she found that sexist, the remark was about BS, I don’t believe he made any reference to women. The lawyer seems to have an inferiority complex is she can automatically assume that he applied that statement to women in general. Any intelligent male knows they’re a hell of a lot brighter than our gender! 🙂
Hell yah, I’d buy you a drink; you survived Osgoode with your faculties intact! That makes you akin to a Veteran in my opinion! A nice single malt perhaps?
kevin, bad lawyers often wrongly depict their clients. but, the garbage comes out in cross examination, hopefully in discovery before you get to trial.
sounds like you’re involvoved in litigation, good luck to you.
JJM “Y’know, there are three categories of people in society who need to be rigorously and routinely ignored when it comes to serious opinions on just about anything – Students, actors and models”
*whew* I missed that bullet…
😉
Oh, come on … give them a break. All they’ve done is is put in a resume to CBC, CTV, Toronto Star, G&M, etc., etc, etc, …
Push hard – is what I say them … and enjoy driving a cab.
Does “The Red Eye” have an appropriate response to “The Sheaf”‘s brokeback Christ toon? I’d like to see what they do in the next issue! There’s at least one identifiable group at the U.of S. that’s not afraid to stand against idealogical bullying.
They’ve shown what they think of Christians supporting the Jews and the state of Israel. (And I wouldn’t explain it any further than that because I’m a lady.)
But, Jeshua is much bigger than their tiny underdeveloped minds. They’ve grieved him, but they’ll see him one day – and it could be sooner than they realize. Amen.
UNC-Chapel Hill Attack Motive: Islamic Rage
Last week we had a report on University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel, which ran an original cartoon of Mohammed that enraged Muslim groups: lgf: Daily Tar Heel Now Targeted for Cartoon Jihad.
Now it appears that a Muslim psychology graduate from UNC-Chapel Hill may have committed the first act of terrorism inside the US connected to the cartoons: New Details about UNC-CH Attack. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.)
(03/03/06 � CHAPEL HILL) – The driver of an SUV that plowed into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill on Friday told police it was retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News.
It happened around noon Friday in front of Lenoir Hall on the campus, in a common area known as the Pit. Paramedics took six people to UNC Hospitals. Five had been released by Friday evening and the sixth was not expected to be admitted. Officials say none of the people were seriously injured. Three refused treatment at the scene.
Chapel Hill police say they arrested the suspect, Mohammed Reva Taheriazar, 23, of Chapel Hill, shortly after the incident. Several witnesses were able to give police the rented Jeep Cherokee�s license plate number.
Police said they would charge Taheriazar, a psychology major who graduated from UNC last semester, with several counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
Link to terrorism?
Sources say Taheriazar told police he was seeking retribution for the treatment of Muslims around the world, according to ABC News justice correspondent Pierre Thomas. Taheriazar apparently told police he tried to rent the biggest SUV he could find to use in the attack. + more
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=3958312
via LGF
Oh my.. I think the real hypocracy are from some of the poster. Kate’s been pretty clear about her support for publishing comics which offend others, but all of a sudden when it comes to offending Christianity, its a big deal. Yes this comic is just stupid, but if you want to make a point about freedom of speech then it seems more prudent to attack the religion of your neighbours rather than that going after muslims.
How dare they offend Christians and not muslims? Why should they offend either. I think the editor is probably pointing out the double standard we have in our society.
The only paper I have anyrespect for who published the Mophammed papers is the guys down in Jordan. They at least put their own personal safety at risk for reprinting them.
Dan,
Maybe in a few years you’ll get a “clue”. I hope on your quest you and yours make it.
I have no problem with the rights of Sheaf to print or not to print but get some help in your graphics.
Dan cannot yet differentiate between murderers and people that are merely religious. He suffers from moral relativism.
He cannot differentiate between that which has some redeeming value and that which does not.
Dan does not understand that it takes courage to bring enlightenment to the dark ages, but no courage at all to bring the dark ages that what is enlightened.
Have you even seen all the cartoons, Dan?
i think that the first schism in the Christian church, between Rome and Byzatnium (Catholic and Orthodox) was over whether it was proper to make images of God. I may be wrong, but I know that there was an ancient schism in the church over this issue.
There were many centuries when Christians would kill over the slightest insult to their faith: those days (when this was mainstream) are over. Those days are not over for radical Islam. Repression of women and gays and “unbelievers” etc… is rampant. There is no freedom of speach etc…
The real hypocrisy is in ignoring these issues. The real hypocrasy is pretending that it’s all the same. The real hyhpocrasy is showing “repect” for muslim sensibilities, to the point of being ridiculous, yet showing none for Christians or Jews. The real hypocrasy is in pretending this attack on Christians, on Jews, on capitalism, ont he Western world, is somehow brave or clever or has some redeeming value. This is nothing but a lie that this cartoon demeans all that see it. It is hateful. It is somehting you would expect to see in a U. bathroom stall, at best.
Murderers are not victims. The Danish cartoons lampoon suicide bombers, and mocks women repressers. They respect Mohammed. This cartoon respects nothing, debases evrything.