O'Reilly baselessly claimed University of Oregon permits "attack [on] Christianity," but "wouldn't allow ... an attack on a minority group"

SUMMARY: Bill O'Reilly has baselessly claimed that the University of Oregon has allowed its students to "attack Christianity," because a student-run newspaper recently published controversial cartoon images of Jesus but "wouldn't allow this if it was an attack on a minority group." In fact, the student paper -- The Insurgent -- is not the official University of Oregon student paper, and, according to the university's president, the school has no editorial control over what it publishes. Moreover, in publishing the Jesus cartoons, The Insurgent was apparently responding to a rival paper's decision to publish controversial cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, which have sparked Muslim outrage and rioting in Europe, a fact that O'Reilly repeatedly ignored in his coverage of the issue.

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