Via AP, hat tip to Malkin for bringing it to my attention,

Two editors at the University of Illinois student-run newspaper were suspended Tuesday for their decision to run a series of cartoons that have sparked outrage and violence around the Islamic world.

Editor-in-chief Acton H. Gorton said the Daily Illini’s publisher suspended him and the newspaper’s opinions sections editor, Charles Prochaska, for two weeks pending the outcome of an internal investigation. “I’m very disappointed. I think this is nothing more than a cover-up,” Gorton said 

Daily Illini managing editor Shira Weissman would not comment on the situation Tuesday. A telephone message left with the newspaper’s publisher, Mary Cory, was not immediately returned. The paper’s editorial staff told readers in Monday’s editions that the decision to run the cartoons was made by Gorton and Prochaska without their knowledge.

While the staff apologized to the Muslim community, it stopped short of saying it disagreed with the decision. “We want to make it clear that while we do not necessarily disagree with the decision to print these cartoons, we disagree with how they were run,” the editorial reads.

According to the editorial, Gorton and Prochaska ran the cartoons without consulting the staff or the publisher and “behind the backs of those who are being significantly affected by its fallout.”

Gorton and Prochaska ran their own editorial Monday, defending their decision to reprint the cartoons, and even called “irresponsible” the decision by major newspapers around the country not to publish the cartoons. Gorton said on Tuesday that other editors were in the same room when the cartoons were laid out on the newspaper’s pages and did not object. He also said he continues to stand by the decision to publish the cartoons.

I’m so sick of the libs double standard.  They allow tons of Bush bashing cartoons that threaten to kill him and injure him in every way imaginable.  Yet, if you might offend the libs lovers the Muslims, “PULL IT”.  But this time it’s not just that the cartoons got pulled, but the fact the students were punished for the publication is unforgiveable.  This is horrible and if we all let it stand we are no better then any one of the countries that have prevented freedom of speech throughout history.

And where is the ACLU in this?  Apparently one does not have a civil liberty to print anything that might offend anyone who is in the lib’s pockets (or in this case pants).  If you are going to claim to be unbiased and out to protect everyone, then for G-d’s sake do it you commi reds!  But its fairly obvious that they are not out to protect everyone, but instead to take down any and all conservative (and by that i mean moral) causes.  Sure, protect terrorist who want nothing more then to kill us all, but US citizens? Let them suffer.  Typical Libs.  Hate America, love those who are trying to destory her.