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Xenophobic Cartoon?
NOT JUST!
As a frequent reader of the
weekly editorial opinion, my
WE ISLAMISES ARE Ni
WE
NOT JUST A DO
eyes were caught by the Dry
ALSO . MURDER
OF
JEW-HATING
Bones "cartoon" on page 19 of
CHRISTIANS.
TERRORIST
the Feb. 10 JN. I suppose some- KILLERS!
one thought this was amusing.
It is in terribly bad taste and
xenophobic; and it reflects an
embarrassing lack of judgment
by the newspaper. It appears
DryBonesBlog.com
to be insulting to all those
who follow Islam as it lumps
Excerpts from Feb. 10 cartoon.
in everyone and not just the
very small fraction that may be
motivated by hate and violence.
If such an outlandish cartoon were Editor's note: The specific term
in a Dearborn-based Muslim paper
used in the cartoon, "Islamist," is
modified just a little to insult all
widely used by the news media and
Jews, we would be outraged and call-
understood to apply only to followers
ing out those responsible for exac-
of radical and terrorist factions of
erbating and inciting hateful dema-
Islam, not to mainstream adherents
goguery. It certainly doesn't help
of the Islamic faith who are popularly
us to make friends; and it hinders
referred to as Islamic people or, simply,
encouraging respect for one another.
Muslims. The cartoon refers to the
Someone owes an apology; and I
recent massacres in church of 58 Iraqi
will be the first one to do so to the
Chaldean Christians and 21 Egyptian
Muslim community and ask their
Coptic Christians by Islamist terror-
forgiveness and promise never again
ists.
to be so thoughtless.

Dry Bones

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February 24 • 2011

Yes U-M, Israel Travel!
It was heartening to read in the IN
editorial opinion "Sadly, No Study in
Israel" that University of Michigan
students are actively promoting a
study abroad program in Israel for
undergraduate students (Feb.17, page
23)
At one time, there was such a
program available for U-M under-
graduates. In December 1987, at the
start of the first Palestinian uprising,
my daughter Nancy, who was then
a junior at U-M, left to study at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem for six
months. Others in her year chose to
go to Tel Aviv University. Because U-M
made the arrangements in conjunc-
tion with the Rothberg International
School, Nancy received full U-M cred-
its for her Hebrew University classes.
Certainly that was a tense period in
Israel; but at no time did my daughter
indicate serious concerns about her
safety. She and the other students
knew what security required and
acted accordingly.
Because of the knowledge she
gained in her classes and living in
Israel, on her return to U-M, Nancy

was able to challenge the anti-Israel
professor teaching one of her political
science classes and to motivate other
students to become more active in
rebutting the hate speech on campus.
As a U-M supporter with a grand-
child in Ann Arbor, I am disappointed
that he does not have the same
opportunity as his aunt had. The
situation is especially puzzling given
that Michigan State University has an
undergraduate program in Israel.
I urge U-M supporters to help the
Wo1vPAC students in their efforts by
contacting U-M President Sue Colman
at presoff@umich.edu and to urge
their own U-M students to sign the
Wo1vPAC petition.

Margot Gardner

Bloomfield Hills

Reinstate U-M Travel Option
The JN is to be applauded for the
editorial opinion "Sadly, No Study In
Israel" (Feb. 17, page 23) about the
lack of an undergraduate study abroad
program to Israel at the University of
Michigan.
The editorial's comment that "It