WaPo censors Mohammed cartoon



We read:

"Last week, when Wiley Miller’s popular comic Non Sequitur featured a cartoon called “Where’s Muhammad?” — a cartoon that didn’t even depict Muhammad — the Washington Post, among other newspapers, never ran it in the print editions. Why didn’t they run it? Because, writes Andrew Alexander, the Washington Post’s ombudsman, editors “were concerned it might offend and provoke some Post readers, especially Muslims.”

Of course the first of the two reasons the ombudsman gives — the terrifying “offend” — is probably not the one Marcus Brauchli, the newspaper’s executive editor with a history of bad decisions during his brief reign, most feared. What Brauchli undoubtedly dreaded was the possibility he might provoke, as in “provoke especially Muslims [to violence]".

Source

WaPo explains here