Flemming Rose is a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. A Danish journalist and author, Rose served as foreign affairs editor and culture editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, whose published cartoons started the Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2006. He has been a free speech advocate ever since. He is the author of The Tyranny of Silence.
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