Flemming Rose

FLEMMING ROSE: THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST……..

Also readFlemming Rose in Helsinki Finland Oct. 2015

Rose’s worry is that by reclassifying words as deeds, the distinction between verbal insult and actual physical violence is collapsed, with devastating consequences for free speech. Words and images, he concedes, can be hurtful. But they are not agents of mass destruction.

Flemming Rose: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

How the man behind the Danish cartoons crisis thinks about free speech, 10 years on

Flemming Rose in the office of Jyllands-Posten in DenmarkReuters

Flemming Rose is a marked man. To his liberal-left detractors, he is a bigoted Islamophobe, stirring up racial and religious hatred against an already embattled minority. To his defenders, he is a brave and unflinching advocate of Enlightenment values. To his jihadist persecutors, he is a blaspheming infidel fit for slaughter.

With all that symbolic baggage freighted to him, it’s easy to forget that Rose is actually a living, breathing human being, whose interior world can no more be reduced to an abstract noun than a person’s life story can be written on a postcard.

Rose, as well as being a father, husband, and grandfather, is a journalist and editor—or at least he was until earlier this year, on January 1 to be precise, when he vacated his position as the foreign-affairs editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

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  1. I hate the language of these scribbling degenerates, who twist themselves into pretzels to sound impartial and non committal. When it comes to this, there is no fence to sit on. You either support western values or you submit to Islam.

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