The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Tuesday defended the right of a campus newspaper to reprint a cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed as a terrorist, saying the “university has for more than 100 years championed the cause of free and open debate.”
The cartoon, which depicts Mohammed wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with an ignited detonator string, was among several cartoons of the religious figure to spark violence across the Muslim world after they were first published in Denmark.
The Badger Herald reprinted the cartoon Monday, saying in an editorial the reaction to the cartoon made it newsworthy.