Jyllands-Posten censored Christian satire while attacking Muslim censorship of Muhammad cartoons.
Evidence
In an ironic twist to this modern history of Western censorship, just two-and-a-half years before the Muhammad cartoons, Jyllands-Posten refused to publish cartoons satirizing the resurrection of Jesus because the Sunday editor feared the Jesus cartoons would “provoke an outcry.” The same newspaper that decried self-censorship and lampooned Muslim oversensitivity to ridicule did not waver in practicing censorship in deference to Christian sensibilities. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 431
Categorization
- SEED: A ready-made irony for an essay or teaching moment: the same newspaper wielded self-censorship in protection of Christian doctrine two years before its free-speech crusade over Muhammad.