University of Saskatchewan student newspaper publishes picture of Jesus performing a sex act on a ‘capitalist pig’. (Hat tip tp Neil)
Cartoon spurs anger
U of S student newspaper apologizes for ‘mistake’A newspaper cartoon targeting religion has once again sprung into the spotlight—this time in a two-frame jab at Christianity in the University of Saskatchewan student newspaper, the Sheaf.
The newspaper is issuing a mea culpa after a cartoon depicting Jesus performing a sex act on a capitalist pig was published in Thursday’s edition of the Sheaf.
“The comic was actually laid out and went to print as a result of an editorial oversight and a mistake,” production manager Liam Richards said Monday. “It was not our intention to have a (public) reaction to it.”
The cartoon ran a week after the student-funded newspaper ran a four-page spread discussing the controversial Danish cartoons picturing the Prophet Muhammad, which have incited rioting and violence by Muslim extremists around the globe. Then-editor-in-chief Will Robbins wrote an editorial telling readers the Sheaf would not publish the cartoons, which have offended so many.
Robbins tendered his resignation to the paper’s board Sunday.
“In order for us to rectify this foul-up, accidental though it may be, especially given the egregious nature of the offence given to a large section of our campus community . . . someone needed to fall on their sword,” Robbins wrote in his resignation letter, obtained by The StarPhoenix.
A columnist has also resigned because of the cartoon and the news editor previously resigned because the paper refused to print the Danish cartoons.
The anti-Christian cartoon has raised the ire of many on campus.
University president Peter MacKinnon has demanded an apology from the newspaper.
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