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Thread #88465   Message #1712015
Posted By: CarolC
06-Apr-06 - 02:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
Subject: RE: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
This is interesting. According to the Wikipedia site, the Danish editor who commissioned the racist cartoons of Muslims has been put on indefinite leave from Jyllands-Posten for saying he would reprint satirical cartoons from an Iranian newspaper depicting the Holocaust. Free speech indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemming_Rose

"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 Hamshahri, 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. [1] and Flemming Rose later said that "he had made a mistake".[2] [3]. The next day Carsten Juste, the editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, stated that Flemming Rose was on indefinite leave.[4]"