Feb 19, 2006 / 22:00 pm
Catholic League president William Donohue, decried the suspensions of the editor-in-chief and the opinions page editor of the Daily Illini, the student newspaper at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois, for republishing cartoons that mock the Prophet Mohammed, arguing the suspensions were hypocritical of the school’s chancellor.
The school did not handle "anti-Catholic fare" the same way. Herman said a discussion of the cartoons should have taken place in lieu of republishing them.
"He's right, but that is not the way the university treats anti-Catholic fare on campus," said Catholic League President William Donohue in a statement.
"In March 1997, the same Urbana-Champaign campus displayed drawings by Michele Blondel that showed the red glass vaginas hanging inside European Roman Catholic cathedrals; two of them had red glass holy water cruets with crosses on them," said Donohue.