Most Muslims in Pennsylvania have cancelled their
subscriptions, says Iqbal Baqai, the state representative of the
Islamic Circle of North America. "We are going to keep protesting till
they say they are sorry," he says. "Muslims are very angry and the
Inquirer offices could even be attacked."
The (Philadelphia) Inquirer's decision has sparked criticism from inside journalism
circles. "The publishing of the political cartoons may be outweighed by
the scope and intensity of the harm such an action could lead to," says
Robert "Bob" Steele, a scholar at the Poynter Institute, a school for
journalists, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Words, he says, may have served
the story better than the image...
