“(NCTG) “Chủ nghĩa Hồi giáo với thế giới Phương Tây sẽ là một thách thức, tuy nhiên không nên quá sợ hãi” - nhà báo Flemming Rose, người đang bị truy đuổi và phải sống từ hàng chục năm nay dưới sự che chở của cảnh sát vì đã cho đăng những tranh biếm họa về Đấng tiên tri Muhammad…”
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“Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Postenin ulkomaantoimituksen päällikkö, on ensimmäistä kertaa puhumassa Suomessa. Työskennellessään Jyllands-Postenin kulttuuripäätoimittajana vuonna 2005, Rose tilasi 40 pilapiirtäjältä profeetta Muhammadia esittäviä pilapiirroksia kokeillakseen, miten islaminuskoisten läsnäolo Tanskassa vaikuttaa sananvapauteen. Kaksitoista pilakuvaa julkaistiin Jyllands-Postenissa 30.9.2005, jonka jälkeen kohu levisi ensin Tanskassa ja myöhemmin maailmanlaajuisesti, kun ulkomaiset lehdet alkoivat myös julkaista pilakuvia. Mikä sai hänet tekemään julkaisupäätöksen, mitä siitä seurasi ja miten Rose nyt näkee sananvapauden ja oman vastuunsa?”
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The Freedom Project at Wellesley College is dedicated to the exploration of the idea of freedom in all of its manifestations, but especially in the tradition of Western classical liberalism. This tradition, in its broadest sense, emphasizes the sanctity of individual rights, freedom of contract and economic rights, constitutional democracy, and the rule of law. It includes, as well, an appreciation of the spirit of individualism, the free marketplace of ideas  and the struggle against arbitrary power, both in the form of political domination and the stultifying influence of ideological dogmas – cultural, political or religious – and social conformity.
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Flemming Rose: People too easily take offense
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“Fritt Ords Honnør tildeles avisredaktørene Flemming Rose og Vebjørn Selbekk for deres prinsippfaste forsvar for ytringsfriheten gjennom ti år med karikaturstrid.
Flemming Rose og Vebjørn Selbekk er blitt selve symbolene på karikaturstriden. Gjennom kontinuerlig og modig deltakelse i offentligheten har de fremmet forståelsen av ytringsfriheten som den mest fundamentale menneskerettighet, og grunnlaget for andre friheter. De har begge betalt en meget høy personlig pris for sin innsats og har fått sitt liv forandret. Der mange andre har sviktet, har Rose og Selbekk utvist stort mot i kampen for liberale prinsipper...”
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“...Hate speech is a relatively new phenomenon. If you look at history, hate speech becomes illegal after the Second World War. I’m not in favor of hate speech. I try to talk politely with people and appreciate when they speak politely with me, but we’re living in a world that is more diverse than ever before. What is one man’s hate speech is another man’s poetry. What is sacred to one group of people will be blasphemous to another group. Hate speech laws are not actually used to combat hatred. If that was their purpose, then to be consistent they would have to criminalize a lot more speech than they in fact do. The laws are ways to force a certain group’s social conventions upon society-at-large. Hate speech laws become more problematic the more culturally diverse a democracy becomes. You can see that clearly in places like Europe, where I live. Most of Europe has laws criminalizing denials of the Holocaust. That’s one example of a hate speech law. Denying the Holocaust is stupid, it’s insulting, it’s a lie, but I don’t think we should criminalize it...”
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Hace diez años tomó una decisión que le cambió la vida. Una de tantas que a diario forjan las señas de identidad de un periódico. Flemming Rose (1958), entonces jefe de Cultura del Jyllands-Posten, quería un boceto de la autocensura en Europa y envió un e-mail a la asociación de viñetistas daneses:«Dibujad a Mahoma como lo veais». La publicación de las caricaturas incendió el planeta y dejó escaldada su propia vida, obligándolo a una rutina de escolta y semiclandestinidad. La matanza de Charlie Hebdo le devolvió primera línea de combate por la libertad de expresión, que ha protagonizado su intervención en el campus FAES y en cuya defensa justifica la publicación de los dibujos.

¿Se arrepiente de haber publicado las viñetas?
No. No creo que una caricatura valga una sola vida humana. Si te rindes a la intimidación y a la violencia, envías el mensaje de que ambas funcionan. Yo no pedí librar esta batalla, me vino impuesta. Esos dibujos no se publicaron para ofender a los musulmanes, sino para preguntar si existe la autocensura y si está basada en el miedo. Diez años después, la respuesta es sí.
Tras la masacre de Charlie Hebdo, ¿cree que ha aumentado esa autocensura?
Creo que en algunas cuestiones hay más, pero también hay individuos luchando contra ella. En el caso de mi periódico no publicamos caricaturas de Mahoma desde 2008 por cuestión de seguridad. La gente no lo sabe, pero desde hace ocho años el periódico y empleados como yo o Kurt Westergaard [autor de la viñeta de Mahoma con una bomba en el turbante] hemos sufrido entre cinco y diez atentados fallidos.
La policía ha interrumpido dos veces la entrevista para conocer exactamente su ruta de hoy. ¿Vive así todos los días?
Sí, y es muy difícil acostumbrarse a coordinar la vida con la policía. Intento tener presente que esto ocurre porque hay personas que quieren matarme.
Dice que la matanza de Charlie Hebdo no le sorprendió... ¿Hay que acostumbrarse?
No creo que la amenaza se disipe, sino al contrario. Antes venía sobre todo en forma de ataques suicidas; ahora, como hemos visto en Túnez, llega de alguien que arranca a disparar en la playa o una tienda. Habrá más ataques, es parte de una batalla de ideas sobre lo que significa vivir en una sociedad multicultural y multirreligiosa...
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Madrid Flemming Rose, el editor del diario danés "Jyllands-Posten", que publicó las caricaturas del profeta Mahoma, ha hecho un llamamiento a salvar la libertad de expresión en "este diverso, digital y complejo mundo" por medio de una conversación global. En una conferencia organizada por FAES en la Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, Rose subrayó que "la libertad de expresión es una cuestión común" y lamentó que se esté yendo "en la dirección contraria". "Tenemos cada vez menos debate y más fragmentación", afirmó, según informó la fundación que preside el expresidente José María Aznar.
"A lo largo de la historia ha habido dos principios en confrontación, la libertad de expresión y la libertad de expresión con 'peros', que es la que ha prevalecido", advirtió. Las dos características actuales que afectan al debate son, a su juicio, la migración, que hace que "las sociedades sean más complejas y diversas", y la tecnología, que provoca que "lo que se ha publicado en un pequeño país en un idioma que poca gente entiende sea accesible en todo el mundo y conlleva una reacción política".
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“...Flemming was in Den Haag om het eerste exemplaar van het boek 'Freedom of Speech under attack’ (de Vrijheid van het woord in gevaar) in ontvangst te nemen, samengesteld door rechtswetenschapper en publicist Afshin Elian en rechtsfilosoof Gelijn Molier van de Universiteit van Leiden.
Flemming zelf schreef het boek 'The Tyranny of Silence’ (de Tirannie van de stilte) waarin hij onder andere stelt dat hij na de publicatie van de Mohammed -cartoons, wereldwijd als de Deense Satan werd beschouwd. Hij ondervond weinig sympathie van onder andere Bill Clinton en de universitaire wereld kort na publicatie van de cartoons in zijn krant. 
Flemming Rose is nog steeds één van Europa’s prominente doelwitten van Al Qaeda. Hij heeft hierdoor beperkte bewegingsvrijheid. Het maakt hem niet minder strijdbaar, integendeel.
In EenVandaag een interview met Flemming Rose.”
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“...Rose’s book, THE TYRANNY OF SILENCE: HOW ONE CARTOON IGNITED A GLOBAL DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH, chronicles the story behind the publication of the Mohammed cartoons, along with Rose’s attempt to understand the events that followed their publication.
Although the book was published in November, 2014, there has been silence from most Canadian media sources on it.
There have been no references to the book, for example, in the four Toronto daily newspapers until my column, today.
The Economist listed it as one of the best books of 2014.
Yet it has received scant attention internationally...”
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“In last Sunday’s Toronto Sun, columnist Alan Shannof wrote a "J'accuse" of sorts. In a piece entitled "The silence is deafening," Shannoff accuses the Canadian media of all but ignoring The Tyranny of Silence, the book written by Flemming Rose, the Jyllands-Posten editor who commissioned those now-infamous cartoons of Islam's founder. As Shanoff points out:
“Although the book was published in November, 2014, there has been silence from most Canadian media sources on it. 
“There have been no references to the book, for example, in the four Toronto daily newspapers until my column, today.”
Shanoff further observes that the cartoon have appeared in a Canadian publication exactly once - when Ezra Levant printed them in The Western Standard. (Shanoff doesn't mention that the 'toons appearance in the now defunct magazine led to two "human rights" complaints and Levant's two-year-long persecution/prosecution at the hands of the Alberta Human Rights Commission.)
Since the book, an account of Rose's experiences pre-and-post publication of the cartoons, "isn't anti-Muslim," Shanoff wants to know why it has been so steadfastly ignored. What's behind the apparent "self-censorship?" he asks.”
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“Few people in the world know the price of free speech better than Flemming Rose, the editor at Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten who invited illustrators to send in depictions of the prophet Muhammad in 2005. Muslims around the world were enraged, and more than 200 deaths were attributed to protests surrounding what came to be known as the “cartoon crisis.” Today, Rose, 57, lives under guard. He is among figures, including novelist Salman Rusdie and the staff of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, who landed on extremists’ death list. Rose met with Points in Dallas recently to talk about his book, The Tyranny of Silence, published last year, and his thoughts on how the ideal of free speech is evolving around the world.”
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“Flemming Rose is de voormalige chef kunst van de Deense krant Jyllands-Posten. Hij was het die in 2005 twaalf cartoonisten vroeg een paar cartoons te tekenen over de profeet Mohammed. Enkelen onder hen stierven begin dit jaar bij de aanslag op Charlie Hebdo. Toch weigert hij te zwijgen.”
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Flemming Rose "Free Speech in a Globalized World" at the European Students for Liberty in Berlin 2015
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“La Tiranía del Silencio”, del danés que publicó a Mahoma con un turbante-bomba
La autocensura se impone en Europa, Cajamarca y Arequipa
“Yihadistas quieren asesinarme. Pero me niego a ser condenado a una tiranía del silencio sepulcral”, sostiene con serena valentía Flemming Rose, el editor danés que publicara el 2005 en la revista Jyllands-Posten unas caricaturas satíricas sobre el Islam, entre ellas, una en que se ve a Mahoma escondiendo una bomba en su turbante. Esta decisión le valió a Rose que fuera sentenciado a muerte por Al Qaeda y por grupos radicales islamistas.
Pero aparte de estar en esta lista negra y vivir temiendo ser asesinado, “Rose ha sido llamado un nazi, un odiador de musulmanes y un Satanás danés. Ha convivido de manera simultánea con las amenazas de muerte y cargado con las ‘culpas’ por la muerte de 200 o más personas en todo el mundo musulmán que protestaron por la publicación de las caricaturas. Desde entonces, el periodista danés ha estado en el centro de las discusiones entre el respeto a la diversidad cultural y la protección de las libertades democráticas, en especial las de la libertad de expresión”, señala en la introducción.

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“...¿A qué cree que se debe este fenómeno de autocensura?
Bueno yo lo llamo “fundamentalismo de agravio”. Cada vez más gente sinceramente cree que tiene derecho a no ser ofendida. En una democracia se tiene varios derechos: votar, libertad de religión, de movimiento etc., pero el único derecho que no se debería tener es el de no ser ofendido. Pero más gente cree que tiene ese derecho y ‘juega’ la carta de la ofensa cada vez más. En todo el mundo...

Creo que se basa en políticas de identidad, ya que a las personas en un mundo globalizado les resulta muy difícil responder a la pregunta: “¿Quién soy?”. Todos buscamos identidades para protegernos y tener un sentido propio. Cuando encontramos una identidad, la queremos proteger contra cualquier ofensa. El resultado es que al final se vuelve más importante qué nos distingue de los demás que aquello que compartimos con otros seres humanos. En mi libro exploro mi experiencia con este fenómeno, pero no me limito a Dinamarca o Europa. Se trata de lo que pasa en otras partes del mundo con distintas religiones e ideologías y sobre distintos períodos de la historia. Sobre las guerras de la religión en Europa, sobre el comunismo en Rusia soviética, la Alemania de Weimar y diferentes episodios históricos en los que se revisa la libertad de expresión, las limitaciones de esta y, más ampliamente, de la libertad.”
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“...Though the Copenhagen attack was a shock, it didn’t come as a surprise. As French cartoonist Plantu told me recently when we were chatting in his office at Le Monde in Paris: “This is just the beginning. There will be more attacks.” Unfortunately, I think he is right. This will be a long battle, first and foremost a battle of ideas. The erosion of the crucial distinction between words and deeds – between an image that some may find offensive and actual violence – has created a climate in which “blasphemers” are required to bear responsibility for violent attacks subsequently directed against them. I experienced that myself in 2006 after commissioning drawings of Muhammad published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Denmark, and I have tried to explain the mechanisms at work in my book The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech. There are people who seriously believe that the organisers of the Copenhagen debate asked for trouble. This is partly due to a new grievance fundamentalism. It heightens the sense of insult and offence, according it enormous social power.”
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“...I disagree that the cartoons provide a text-book example of a Western, Orientalist perspective. The cartoons have as little to do with the Middle East as cartoons of Jesus do. Mohammed and Jesus were both from the Middle East. The context for the publication of the cartoons was Islam in Denmark and Europe, not the Middle East...”
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“EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the more ignorant things I occasionally hear people say in my line of work is that a certain artwork is “just a cartoon.” If they had any understanding of the hot thunderclap power of a single image upon the brain’s hard-wiring, they would instead say warily, “Oh my, it’s a CARTOON.” This interview reminds of the potential potency, for good or ill, for right or wrong, of a distilled still image. – M.C.”
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Flemming Rose talks about the Mohammad cartoon controversy
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We are happy to announce that Tyranny of Silence will be published in the U.S. the coming fall.
The publication date is November 11, 2014, and the publisher is the Cato Institute in Washington D.C.

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”In an exclusive book extract, Rose explains why bans on hate speech across Europe are based on a false understanding of its role in the Holocaust”
Reed ”Index on Censorship” Volume 41

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"Swedish and Danish authorities arrested four suspected militant Islamic jihadists last week for allegedly planning a terrorist attack before this weekend. Their target was the Jyllands-Posten news bureau in Copenhagen. In 2006, the newspaper became the target of terrorist threats after it printed controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in 2005. Authorities say the suspects arrested planned to use the same "swarm" tactics used in the 2008 Mumbai killing spree that left 163 people dead. Kurt Westergaard drew a cartoon that depicted Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Last January, a Somali man wielding an ax and demanding "revenge" broke into Westergaard's home. In 2009, Danish authorities arrested three men for planning to behead Westergaard. Like Westergaard, Jyllands-Posten Editor Flemming Rose, who commissioned the cartoons, now has round-the-clock security. I asked via e-mail, How many planned attacks against his paper and cartoonists have been thwarted? Rose answered that this latest episode represents the sixth or seventh foiled attack. In his new book, "Tyranny of Silence," Rose explains that he asked cartoonists to submit works on Muhammad in order to stand up to "my perception of prevalent self-censorship among the Danish media" on the subject of radical Islam. Now he has a target on his back." Read More

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