Brandeis Professor Accuses Yale University Press of Gag Order [on Jytte Klausen]

Source: Winfield Myers writing at the website of Campus Watch (Conservative watchdog group run by historian Daniel Pipes) (8-14-09)

[Note: This story is about Brandeis Professor of Comparative Politics, Jytte Klausen.]

Why is Yale hiding behind the decision of anonymous “experts” to defend its decision to pull all illustrations of Muhammad from Jytte Klausen’s forthcoming book, The Cartoons that Shook the World? What does it have to hide? Who was behind the decision?

[Editor’s Note: The full text of “Why Won’t Yale Identify the ‘Experts’ Who Advocated Pulling the Illustrations of Muhammad?” follows.]

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
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