Author: Flemming Rose

Flemming Rose is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the former foreign affairs editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (Jutlands Post), as the paper’s culture editor, he commissioned the famous “Muhammad cartoons” that were published in 2005 and sparked the international Cartoon Crisis of 2006. (Free Inquiry published a selection of those cartoons in its April/May 2006 issue.) In 2014, Cato published his book, The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech. This article was adapted with permission from Rose’s Foreword to The Fall and Rise of Blasphemy Law, edited by Paul Cliteur and Tom Herrenberg (Leiden University Press, 2016). References in the text not otherwise attributed refer to other articles in that anthology.