Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten Editor “US Media runs away from threats and abandons free speach to its enemies. Even the NY Times”
Cartoon Editor Disillusioned With U.S. Press
By Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 9, 2008
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — A Danish newspaper editor who received death threats and is facing criminal charges for commissioning cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is accusing his American counterparts of undermining free speech by failing to republish the cartoons when the issue prompted riots in Muslim countries two years ago.
“It reads on the top of the New York Times, ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print,’ but it’s very hard to argue that this was not news on February 1, 2006,” the culture editor of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten, Flemming Rose, said Wednesday night during a speech at Stanford University. Most American newspapers did not publish the cartoons, which include images of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban and of suicide bombers being greeted by the Muslim prophet in heaven.
“Europe has usually been criticized for being politically correct and on the defense when it comes to Islam, but more European newspapers published the cartoons,” he said. “We might not have had the kind of ongoing crisis if more newspapers around the world would have published the cartoons at the same time because by doing so you would have drawn a clear line. … Instead, it was pretty unclear what people in liberal democracies thought of this issue.”