Insights into Danish cartoon controversy

As protests, many of them violent, continue to shake the Muslim world in the wake of depiction of Muhammad in a series of cartoons, two religious scholars discuss the use of religious imagery in public places and in the media.   Ingrid Mattson is the director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program and professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut; and Father Terrence Dempsey is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art and professor of art history and religion at St. Louis University. Read their responses to pbs's Ray Suarrez questions below..

 

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