Kurt Westergaard is the Danish cartoonist whose image of Mohammad with a bomb for a turban triggered, as Roger Kimball retells it, “one of those periodic paroxysms of rage, mayhem, and murder among followers of the religion of peace.”

Westergaard recently spoke at Yale, decrying Yale’s decision to censor Jytte Klausen’s book The Cartoons that Shook the World by disallowing publication of the cartoons and other visual depictions of Mohammad.

Rabbi Jon Hausman attended Westergaard’s talk and remarked, in an interview, on the antagonism with which the cartoonist was received. Rabbi Hausman also took the occasion to comment forthrightly on Yale and the university in general:

Honestly, I would not send my child to any school where there is such uniformity and conformity of thought and attitude. I was disappointed at the inability of those in attendance amongst the Yale community to place responsibility for the violence that has transpired on those who manifest such responsibility. . . . It was the Imams from Denmark who took those cartoons . . . [and] whipped up violent frenzies. . . . Every questioner seemed to want to misplace blame.
Further, it is clear that the university suffers from the malaise of relativist truth and the multicultural ethic. There are no universal truths any longer. . . . Today, all truths are equal. I abjure this notion.
In the final analysis, I believe that the university is lost.

Blunt, yes. But all too accurate.