Among 12 caricatures of Islam’s prophet Muhammad published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on September 30, 2005, “it was Westergaard’s image that would change my life,” the paper’s cultural editor Flemming Rose wrote. As he detailed in his 2014 book, The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future […]
Free Speech Defender Deborah Weiss Discusses Kurt Westergaard and the Jihad against Free Speech
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard died July 14. His drawing of Islam’s prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban was among 12 cartoons published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten on September 30, 2005 that enraged Muslims worldwide. The newspaper’s then-culture editor, Flemming Rose, who oversaw the cartoons’ publication, has documented in detail this Cartoon Crisis […]
On 10th anniversary of publication of Muhammad cartoons, Danish newspaper submits: reprints original page without cartoons
The President of the United States, the Pope, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and virtually every other Western leader has decided: the freedom of speech must be sacrificed to those who will kill us for exercising it. They have all told us that the proper response to violent intimidation is to give in to […]