Mohammed Cartoon Controversy: FIREResponse to Intimidation and Newspaper Disputes
Cases
Harvard University
Case Overview
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As a result of worldwide controversy regarding caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper, free speech was being openly disregarded on American college campuses. In the weeks following the printing of the cartoon, students, professors, and student publications not only reprinted the controversial cartoons but even created their own satirical cartoons depicting Mohammed. Chilling of speech in relation to the cartoon was found at Century College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and New York University, amongst others.
- Free Speech
- Harvard University
- Northern Illinois University
- University of Arizona
- Purdue University
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Century College
- New York University