Flemming Rose
Flemming Rose
Flemming Roseis a Danish journalist, author and since 2010 foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. 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 freedom of speech...
asking believer demands follow holy observe public respect secular synagogue taboos taking visit
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 secular democracy.
cartoons publish run
We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them.
grateful huge paper time whatsoever
There is no disagreement whatsoever between me and the company. I'm tired, I have been under huge pressure, and I am grateful to the paper for this time off.