Has Anyone Answered This Question?

For all the easy irony and juicy newspaper-story contrasting that comes out of Kurt Westergaard appearing to speak on Yale's campus October 1 just three days after the release of a book from the school's press where author and publisher have decided not to run any images of Muhammad (including Westergaard's) at all, doesn't the fact that the lecture is taking place really put to doubt the "protection of students" response as to why the images are being kept out of the book? Were I Lord of Yale I'd welcome the speech and the publication of the images, so I'm not cracking on the wisdom of having Westergaard speak in and of itself. It just bugs me that if the security of the students is such a vital issue, why host that speech at all? It's like kicking Howard Stern off of your college radio station because he might say something dirty and then announcing Artie Lange will speak at graduation. Okay, not really, but you know what I mean. Why is one acceptable risk and the other is not? This really makes the images decision look like it based on another factor or factors.
 
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