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| '''Flemming Rose''' is a ] journalist |
'''Flemming Rose''' is a ] journalist, author and the current cultural editor at the Danish newspaper ]. He was responsible for the first publishing of the cartoons in the ]. He is currently on indefinite leave from his newspaper, after a controversial offer to reprint Iranian cartoons of the Holocaust. | ||
| ==Life== | ==Life== | ||
| Rose has a major in ] and ] from ]. From 1990 to 1996 he was the ] ] for the newspaper ]. Between 1996 and 1999 he was the correspondent for the same newspaper in ]. In 1999 he became Moscow correspondent for the newspaper Jyllands-Posten and January 2005 the cultural editor of that paper (KulturWeekend). | |||
| He has an active interest in meditation and practices it regularly. "In my work, I travel a lot. It is not always easy to keep in touch with my own emotional roots. Daily meditations help me regain contact." He has been on the journalistic team accompanying Bill Clinton to China. "Recently I travelled with Bill Clinton to China for nine days. I had to write eight articles during seven days without even having been to China before. I really had to work efficiently and try not to be too influenced by my own prejudices regarding China and the Chinese. Needless to say, meditation was a good travel companion." | |||
| He attempts to avoid succumbing to stereotypes. "I try to describe an event free from stereotypical assumptions. For instance, Americans are not just shallow and materialistic, and Russians are not only lazy people who do not understand democracy." | |||
| ==Cartoon crisis== | ==Cartoon crisis== | ||
| Rose is best known |
Rose is best known for commissioning the drawings of Muhammad in the ] on 30 September 2005. He later said that he did so because he felt he had seen too many examples of ] because of possible threats from Muslims. | ||
| ⚫ | When asked whether he had any regrets about commisioning the cartoons, he said, "That is a hypothetical question. I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque." (] 11 Dec. 2005; ] 16 Dec. 2005) | ||
| ===Cultural and political philosophy=== | |||
| Rose commissioned the controversial cartoons since he felt there were too many examples of ] because of threats from Muslims. Inspired partly by the well known American conservative thinker ], Rose has long had concerns about the impact of incompatible world views on Western liberal society. He was especially concerned about the threat to freedom, self expression and Western civilisation and culture from Islam's world-view. He has written an excellent article that was printed in the Jyllands-Posten on October 29, 2004 on these issues ] . | |||
| ⚫ | ===Holocaust Cartoons=== | ||
| As he writes, quoting Pipes, "In this third confrontation, militant Islam is the challenge. The core of militant Islamic ideology is hidden in the expression "al-Islam huwwa al-hall", which means: Islam is the solution." | |||
| ⚫ | On 8 February 2006, Flemming Rose said in interviews with ] and ] that Jyllands-Posten planned to reprint satirical cartoons depicting the ] that the Iranian newspaper ] planned to publish. He told CNN "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with that Iranian newspaper , 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 cartoons. and Flemming Rose later said that "he had made a mistake". . The next day ], the editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, stated that Flemming Rose was on indefinite leave. | ||
| ==Works== | |||
| And as he says, "Pipes undrer sig over, at der ikke er større alarm i Europa over den udfordring, islam repræsenterer takket være faldende fødselsrater og en svækket fornemmelse for egen historie og kultur." (Pipes is amazed that Europe is not more alarmed about the challenge that Islam poses, considering plummeting birth rates and a weakened perception of its own history and culture.) | |||
| ⚫ | *''Mod strømmen (Against the Stream)'', in Russian by ] (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 (co-authored with several others) | ||
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| Rose said that if Muslims demand "that I, as a non-Muslim, should submit to their taboos ... they're asking for my submission." | |||
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| ⚫ | When asked whether he had any regrets about commisioning the cartoons, he said, "That is a hypothetical question. I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque." | ||
| He defends himself strongly, saying,"When I go to a mosque, I behave by the rules that exist in that holy house. I will not stand up and make a cartoon of the holy prophet in a mosque. But I think if any religion insists that I, as a non-Muslim, should submit to their taboos, then I don't think they're showing me respect. I think they're asking for my submission. This is a key issue in this debate." | |||
| Rose states that there is a culture war between Islam and the west and between forward thinking and backward factions in Islam "This is a culture war and it's not only a culture war between Western democracies and the Islamic world," Rose says. "I see this first and foremost as a culture war within the Muslim world, between those Muslims who want to live in a modern, secular democracy and the forces who want to turn back the clock and have all the same totalitarian and authoritarian impulses that I saw in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe when I was living there in the 80s and 90s." | |||
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| ⚫ | *''Mod strømmen (Against the Stream)'', in Russian by ] (translated by Flemming Rose to Danish), Schønberg 1990. | ||
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| ⚫ | *''Velfærdsstaten tur/retur - efter socialdemokratismens sammenbrud (The Rise and Fall of the Welfare-state - after the Collapse of Social-Democracy)'', Gyldendal, 2005 (co-authored with several others) | ||
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Flemming Rose is a Danish journalist, author and the current cultural editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He was responsible for the first publishing of the cartoons in the Muhammed cartoons crisis. He is currently on indefinite leave from his newspaper, after a controversial offer to reprint Iranian cartoons of the Holocaust.
Life
Rose has a major in Russian language and literature from University of Copenhagen. From 1990 to 1996 he was the Moscow correspondent for the newspaper Berlingske Tidende. Between 1996 and 1999 he was the correspondent for the same newspaper in Washington, D.C.. In 1999 he became Moscow correspondent for the newspaper Jyllands-Posten and January 2005 the cultural editor of that paper (KulturWeekend).
Cartoon crisis
Rose is best known for commissioning the drawings of Muhammad in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoon crisis on 30 September 2005. He later said that he did so because he felt he had seen too many examples of self-censorship because of possible threats from Muslims.
When asked whether he had any regrets about commisioning the cartoons, he said, "That is a hypothetical question. I would say that I do not regret having commissioned those cartoons and I think asking me that question is like asking a rape victim if she regrets wearing a short skirt Friday night at the discotheque." (Jyllands-Posten 11 Dec. 2005; Politiken 16 Dec. 2005)
Holocaust Cartoons
On 8 February 2006, Flemming Rose said in interviews with CNN and TV 2 that Jyllands-Posten planned to reprint satirical cartoons depicting the Holocaust that the Iranian newspaper Hamshahri planned to publish. He told CNN "My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with that Iranian newspaper , 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 cartoons. and Flemming Rose later said that "he had made a mistake". . The next day Carsten Juste, the editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, stated that Flemming Rose was on indefinite leave.
Works
- Mod strømmen (Against the Stream), in Russian by Boris Yeltsin (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 (co-authored with several others)
External links
- RFE/RL Reports 31 January 2006, Volume 6, Number 2: Satire Vs. Self-Censorship
- The Last Word: Flemming Rose
- Image of Rose
- Image of Rose
