….The recent decision of UW-Madison student journalists to reprint a cartoon that depicted the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse pitted the right of free speech against reasonable restraint. When Muslim students on the UW campus expressed outrage, calling it a racist act, The Capital Times sided with the Badger Herald’s editors.
Like The Capital Times, I, too, do not believe the publication of the controversial cartoon was necessarily a racist act, but I also do not believe printing it served the common good.