Controversy has beset the Badger Herald campus newspaper for publishing an editorial accompanied by a cartoon of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb. Critics have hurled several accusations at the Herald, including questions about the timing of the free speech act, the motivations of the editorial board, and the claim that the board could have achieved its purpose by describing the image rather than publishing it.
….We must resist the idea that the expression of a political idea, or a statement of criticism, or satire, should be subject to sanction or prohibited simply because one group or another finds that idea, criticism or satire offensive.