New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has repeatedly claimed that the reason he’s not allowing any depictions of Muhammad to appear in the paper is because he’s highly attuned to religious sensibilities. It’s not because he’s terrified of Islamic radicals killing him or his staff.
No really. That’s what he’s going with.
And to believe this, you have to not be in any way a religious Jew or Christian who has read the paper in recent years. For us, the insensitivity toward our religious views is more a daily and expected occurrence.