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Flemming Rose (born 11 March 1958) is a Danish journalist, author and Senior Fellow at the
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. He previously served as foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper ''
Jyllands-Posten ''Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten'' (; English: ''The Morning Newspaper "The Jutland Post"''), commonly shortened to ''Jyllands-Posten'' or ''JP'', is a Danish daily broadsheet newspaper. It is based in Aarhus C, Jutland, and with a weekday circulat ...
''. As culture editor of the same newspaper, he was principally responsible for the September 2005 publication of the cartoons that initiated the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons controversy early the next year, and since then he has been an international advocate of the
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.


Life

Rose grew up in
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. He was one of three children. His father left the family when Rose was a small boy, and they were out of touch for decades. After the cartoon crisis, his father wrote him a letter suggesting that they meet and expressing his agreement with Rose's position on the cartoons. As a result, they met and reconciled. Rose graduated with a degree in
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and
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from
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. From 1980 to 1996 he was the
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for the newspaper ''
Berlingske Tidende ''Berlingske'', previously known as ''Berlingske Tidende'' (, ''Berling's Times''), is a Danish national daily newspaper based in Copenhagen. It is considered a newspaper of record for Denmark. First published on 3 January 1749, ''Berlingske'' ...
''. Between 1996 and 1999 he was that newspaper's correspondent in
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In 1999 he became Moscow correspondent for ''Jyllands-Posten'' and in April 2004 was named its cultural editor, replacing Sven Bedsted. Since 2010, he has been the paper's foreign affairs editor. In November 2015, Rose announced that he was leaving ''Jyllands-Posten''.


Cartoon controversy

Rose is best known for commissioning a group of drawings of Muhammad that were published in ''Jyllands-Posten'' on 30 September 2005. His reasoning was that many European creative artists had engaged in
self-censorship Self-censorship is the act of censoring or classifying one's own discourse. This is done out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities or preferences (actual or perceived) of others and without overt pressure from any specific party or insti ...
out of fear of Muslim violence. The immediate trigger for the commission was the case of the Danish children's book author
Kåre Bluitgen Kåre Bluitgen (10 May 1959) is a Danish writer and journalist whose works include a biography of Muhammad. In the 1970s Bluitgen was politically active on the Danish left, namely within the Left Socialists. Education and career Kåre Bluitgen rec ...
, who reportedly couldn't find an illustrator for a book about the life of Muhammad. ''Jyllands-Posten'' invited Danish illustrators to depict Muhammad "as you see him." Not all of the cartoons submitted in response to his invitation featured images of Muhammed. Two of them caricatured Bluitgen, one mocked ''Jyllands-Posten'' itself, while others caricatured Danish politicians. The most famous of the cartoons, by
Kurt Westergaard Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons, w ...
, depicted Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. In February 2006, Rose wrote an essay for the ''Washington Post'' entitled "Why I Published Those Cartoons." He noted that
Kurt Westergaard Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons, w ...
had previously drawn outrageous cartoons of Jesus and the Star of David, neither of which had led to "embassy burnings or death threats". Rose asked: "Has ''Jyllands-Posten'' insulted and disrespected Islam?...When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking off my shoes. I follow the customs, just as I do in a church, synagogue or other holy place. But if a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission. And that is incompatible with a secular democracy." As for avoiding offense, Rose stated: "I am offended by things in the paper every day: transcripts of speeches by
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, photos from
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, people insisting that
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should be erased from the face of the Earth, people saying the Holocaust never happened. But that does not mean that I would refrain from printing them as long as they fell within the limits of the law and of the newspaper's ethical code….As a former correspondent in the
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, I am sensitive about calls for censorship on the grounds of insult. This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders….The lesson from the Cold War is: If you give in to totalitarian impulses once, new demands follow. The West prevailed in the Cold War because we stood by our fundamental values and did not appease totalitarian tyrants."


After the cartoon incident

After the cartoon crisis, Rose traveled around the U.S. and interviewed such figures as
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,
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,
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, and
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for the ''New York Times'' and ''Jyllands-Posten''. The interviews later appeared in Rose's book ''Amerikanske stemmer (American Voices)''. Rose has continued to write and be interviewed extensively about the cartoons and the issues raised by the controversy. He said in a 2007 interview that "publication of the cartoons definitely raised the level of consciousness about self-censorship." Although some observers have denied that he achieved his goal with the cartoons because there was supposedly "more self-censorship" than before, Rose maintained that what had increased was not self-censorship but awareness of it: "before the cartoon controversy, there were many instances of self-censorship that went unnoticed." Prior to the publishing of the cartoons, he noted, the Tate gallery in London had removed a torn-up copy of the
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from an exhibition in order to avoid offending Muslims. "There was no public reaction to this; there was no talk about self-censorship although it was an obvious case." After the cartoon case, by contrast, the proposed cancellation for similar reasons of a Berlin production of Idomeneo caused "a tremendous public outcry and outrage." Rose argued in the interview that "it is discriminatory toward Muslims to say that we should not make fun of their religion when we are making fun of everybody else's religion….I'd like to think that in some sense, the cartoons were an act of inclusion because we were not asking more or less of Muslims but exactly the same as of everybody else. Danish Muslims should be treated as adults, not as a weak minority needing special treatment like small children." He also expressed surprise "that more European newspapers republished the cartoons than those in the United States." Unlike the major U.S. dailies, several major European papers reprinted them. "There are two narratives here: There are those who say that the controversy was about self-censorship—about denying a religious group special treatment in the public domain. That is my narrative. Then, you have another narrative saying: This was not about free speech or self-censorship; it was about a powerful newspaper insulting a minority. This was a fair argument until the moment when the threats were issued. The twelve cartoonists and I received death threats; newspapers were closed in
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and in
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, and newspaper editors were jailed in
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and
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. At that point, it became an issue exclusively about free speech." Europeans, Rose suggested in the interview, do not know how to deal with Islam because of its "strangeness" to them and because of their own "self-hatred stemming from our colonial past and things like that." Even though Europeans "have been criticizing, challenging, and ridiculing Christianity for decades if not centuries," they "do not do the same with Islam because we have lost our sense of religiosity and are afraid of insulting or being accused of insulting a minority. In my mind, this is not a question of insult but of equal treatment." He said that people now showed "a lot more understanding of my position than a year ago." In an October 2007 interview with the American libertarian magazine ''Reason'', Rose stated that "the left is in a deep crisis in Europe because of their lack of willingness to confront the racist ideology of Islamism. They somehow view the Koran as a new version of ''
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'' and are willing to ignore everything else, as long of they continue to see the Muslims of Europe as a new proletariat." He explained that his "behavior during the 'cartoon crisis'… was very much informed by my experience with Soviet Union because I saw the same kind of behavior both inside the Soviet Union and those dealing with the Soviet Union in the West." In a February 2008 interview with ''Der Spiegel'', Rose said that "on a global level people who are in favor of free speech have to unite in order to get rid of all kinds of laws around the world that limit the right to free speech – blasphemy laws, laws protecting dictators, laws which are being used to silence people who are critical." He added that Denmark's "debate about integration and about fundamental values in our democracy is far more fact-based than it used to be. The cartoons didn't create a new reality, but they revealed a reality. That reality was already there, but not everybody was willing to see it. Now this reality has become clear and we can discuss the real problems based on facts instead of some abstract thinking."


Plot against Westergaard and afterward

In February 2008, in response to a plot to kill Kurt Westergaard, 17 Danish newspapers reprinted his cartoon of Muhammed with the bomb in his turban. "My colleagues at ''Jyllands-Posten'' and I understand that the cartoon may be offensive to some people," wrote Rose in the ''Wall Street Journal'', "but sometimes the truth can be very offensive." He quoted
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: "If liberty means anything, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." He also stated that "the plot to kill Mr. Westergaard is…part of a broader trend that risks undermining free speech in Europe and around the world." There is "a global battle for the right to free speech," he maintained, and although legal systems differ, "the justifications for censorship and self-censorship are similar in different parts of the world: Religious feelings and taboos need to be treated with a kind of sensibility and respect that other feelings and ideas cannot command." Rose rejected this special treatment, noting that during the Cold War "people like Vaclav Havel,
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,
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" had insisted that "It is not cultures, religions or political systems that enjoy rights. Human beings enjoy rights, and certain principles like the ones embedded in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights are universal." Rose also rejected the "misplaced sensitivity" that "is being used by tyrants and fanatics to justify murder and silence criticism," and deplored the West's "lack of clarity on these issues," which led some people to argue "that
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, Theo van Gogh,
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,
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and Kurt Westergaard bear a certain amount of responsibility for their fate. They don't understand that by doing so they tacitly endorse attacks on dissenting voices in parts of the world where no one can protect them." In March 2009, Rose spoke in
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, and described the Norwegian debate on free speech as "politically correct," less "open, direct, and coarse" than in Denmark. Because many Norwegian commentators cherish the idea of their country as a peacemaker, he argued, they hold back to avoid creating unpleasantness. In April 2009, Rose spoke at the
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. Rose said that Islam expert
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had told him that the cartoon crisis marked "the first time Muslims ad triedto impose Islamic law on non-Muslim countries." He also said, "There's a problem with Muslims in Europe and it must be dealt with – but limiting freedom of expression is not the solution." He further commented: "There are those who viewed the cartoons that I published as a form of incitement, but I don't think a statement should be measured by the response it yields, especially if the response is irrational and stupid." He also stated that "There was a time after the crisis that I had to take extra precautions, but that is in the past. I never felt threatened – or that I have to be silent."


Tavshedens Tyranni

In 2011, five years to the day after the cartoons were first published in ''Jyllands-Posten'', they were republished in Denmark in Rose's book ''Tavshedens Tyranni (Tyranny of Silence)''. The Norwegian publisher that bought the rights to the book described it as "a 500-page collection of essays about free speech and its boundaries." A reviewer in the Norwegian magazine ''Minerva'' commented that "one cannot help being extremely impressed by the way he has handled the pressure." His main point, wrote the reviewer, is that "in a liberal democracy no individual or group can demand special treatment in the free exchange of words." For Rose, "freedom of speech is not a Western value, but a global value." When Rose's book was about to come out, Danish Foreign Minister
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met with 17 ambassadors from Muslim countries in an effort to prevent a new cartoon crisis.


Holocaust cartoons

On 8 February 2006, Flemming Rose said in interviews with
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and TV 2 that ''Jyllands-Posten'' planned to reprint satirical cartoons depicting the
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that the Iranian newspaper ''
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'' planned to publish. He told CNN "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with that Iranian newspaper ''Hamshahri'', and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them". Later that day the paper's editor-in-chief said that ''Jyllands-Posten'' under no circumstances would publish the Holocaust cartoon

and Flemming Rose later said that "he had made a mistake

The next day
Carsten Juste Carsten Juste (born 6 July 1947) is a Danish journalist and former editor-in-chief of ''Jyllands-Posten'', a Danish large- circulation newspaper. Juste started out his career in 1979 as a trainee with ''Jyllands-Posten''. He was its editor-in-chi ...
, the editor-in-chief of ''Jyllands-Posten'', stated that Flemming Rose was on indefinite leave because he needed time of

After some months Rose returned to ''Jyllands-Posten''.


Al-Qaeda hit list

In 2013, Flemming Rose was added to a hit list in
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's Inspire magazine, along with cartoonist Stéphane "Charb" Charbonnier,
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and three ''Jyllands-Posten'' staff members:
Kurt Westergaard Kurt Westergaard (born Kurt Vestergaard; 13 July 1935 – 14 July 2021) was a Danish cartoonist. In 2005 he drew a cartoon of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, wearing a bomb in his turban as a part of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons, w ...
,
Carsten Juste Carsten Juste (born 6 July 1947) is a Danish journalist and former editor-in-chief of ''Jyllands-Posten'', a Danish large- circulation newspaper. Juste started out his career in 1979 as a trainee with ''Jyllands-Posten''. He was its editor-in-chi ...
. In 2015, over 12 people were murdered in attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. After the attack, Al-Qaeda called for more killings.


Invitation to speak withdrawn by the University of Cape Town, South Africa

The Academic Freedom Committee of the University of Cape Town in South Africa invited Flemming Rose in March 2015 to speak at its 2016 TB Davie Memorial Lecture on academic freedom, scheduled to be held during August 2016. This invitation was withdrawn by the Vice Chancellor, Max Price, during July 2016 over fears that the lecture may "spark conflict on campus, create security risks and retard rather than advance academic freedom at the university."


Works

* ''Mod strømmen (Against the Stream)'', in Russian by
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(translated by Flemming Rose to Danish), Schønberg 1990. * ''Katastrofen der udeblev (The Disaster that did not Happen)'', Gyldendal, 1998. * ''Velfærdsstaten tur/retur – efter socialdemokratismens sammenbrud (The Rise and Fall of the Welfare-state – after the Collapse of Social-Democracy)'', Gyldendal, 2005 (Editor) * ''Amerikanske stemmer'', Jyllands-Postens Forlag, 2006. * ''Tavshedens Tyranni (Tyranny of Silence), 2010


Translations

Rose has translated several books from Russian into Danish, including ''Den sørgmodige detektiv'' (
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, 1987); ''Børn af Arbat'' (
Anatoly Rybakov Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (russian: Анато́лий Нау́мович Рыбако́в; – 23 December 1998) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist ''Children of the Arbat ''trilogy, the novel ''Heavy Sand' ...
, 1987); parts of ''Perestrojka, nytænkning i russisk politik'' (
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, 1987); ''3 x tak til kammerat Stalin: min barndom og ungdom i Rusland 1936–54'' (Anmartin Broide, 1988); and ''Mod strømmen'' (
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
, 1990).


Honors and awards

* The Danish Free Press Society's journalist prize, the Sappho Prize (2007) * ''Publicistprisen'' by the (2015) *
Fritt Ord Honorary Award Fritt Ord Award consists of two prizes awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation (''Stiftelsen Fritt Ord''). Two prizes are awarded in support of freedom of speech and freedom of expression; the Fritt Ord Award ( no, Fritt Ords pris) and the Fritt Or ...
by Fritt Ord (Norway) (2015) * The
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for Advancing Liberty (Washington DC, United States 2016) * Knight of the
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(Paris, France 2016)


References


External links


RFE/RL Reports 31 January 2006, Volume 6, Number 2: Satire Vs. Self-Censorship

The Last Word: Flemming Rose

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by Rose in the February 19, 2006 ''
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"The Threat of Islamism", Flemming Rose's interview with Daniel Pipes
(Danish translation
"Truslen fra islamismen"

''Muhammeds ansigt''
(''Face of Muhammed'') by Flemming Rose (Danish article)
Culture battle on JP’s culture section
Rose becomes culture editor (Danish article)
Rose retrospektivt: Det stærkeste våben
(Danish article)

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, 1 October 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Flemming 1958 births Critics of postmodernism Danish journalists Free speech activists Berlingske people Jyllands-Posten people Living people People associated with the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy University of Copenhagen alumni Danish critics of Islam