Fareed Zakaria, "Moderate" Moslem, Nixed Mohammed Cartoons

(Two posts today. Please scroll down)

In other words, Zakaria advised Yale University Press not to publish the Danish cartoons in a collection of cartoons of controversy.

From this post at Islam in Action, citing this source:

...Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, a world affairs columnist and CNN host who serves on Yale's governing board, said he told Yale that he believed publishing the images would have provoked violence.

"As a journalist and public commentator, I believe deeply in the First Amendment and academic freedom," Zakaria said. "But in this instance Yale Press was confronted with a clear threat of violence and loss of life."

It appears that BHO had Zakaria's book The Post-American World on his reading list:


Just sayin'...

Additional reading: more from Creeping Sharia about Zakaria in Newsweek and at his web site.