Brandeis University

By bringing out the plurality of responses from European Muslims, author Jytte Klausen, in her new book, The Cartoons that Shook the World, challenges the facile conclusion that the cartoons were “offensive” and hence merit prohibition.
In what must rank as one of the literary world’s most unusual disputes, Index on Censorship, which campaigns for freedom of speech, stands accused of censorship.
Jytte Klausen talks to Index on Censorship about her new book on the Danish cartoons crisis and discusses why it was published without any illustrations