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Published as a letter to the editor in the [Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island] Guardian, 21 Feb 2006. Contents of the initial, two-page letter of thanks to Mr. Wade MacLauchlan can be accessed at www.upei.ca/letter

For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.

上面有 小马2/13在LSE(伦敦政经学院)的演讲稿，也是因为这个才看到这个BLOG的，订阅了

Fear of possible â mob actionâ must not be allowed to dictate to UPEI or any other Canadian university what ideas its students and faculty may express, disseminate and debate. By censoring this debate at your campus rather than taking the nec

The Cadre, UPEI's campus newspaper, found its issues yanked from stands when protests ensued after reprinting said comics. Ray Keating, the Cadre's editor-in-chief, argued that it was a stand for freedom of the press.

The decision by the President of the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) to ban from campus all copies of a student newspaper that printed cartoons that depicted Mohammed is, in my opinion, a sign that some leaders can't lead.

I have to say Iâ m disappointed at the rather gutless and repressive actions of UPEI and the UPEI student union regarding the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that were re-printed in the Cadre.

Last week Ron Paul mailed each of his congressional colleagues a copy of a speech outlining his views on the lobbying and ethics scandals engulfing Washington. "I'm afraid many of them won’t like my conclusion: to reduce corruption in government, we must make government less powerful-- and hence less interesting to lobbyists."