Yale Press Forbids All Images Of Muhammad In Book

Yale University Press has banned not only the “notoriously controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad” from its fall title, “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” but also “any other illustrations of the prophet that were to be included, specifically, a drawing for a children’s book; an Ottoman print; and a sketch by the 19th-century artist Gustave Doré of Muhammad being tormented in Hell, an episode from Dante’s ‘Inferno’ that has been depicted by Botticelli, Blake, Rodin and Dalí.”