Flemming Rose

Flemming Rose       ( journalist,  author,  editor)
Born	11 March 1958
Nationality	Danish
Alma mater	•  University of Copenhagen •  University of Odense
Danish editor and commissioner of Mohammad-cartoons leading to Muslim protests (all possibly a Mossad operation) who attended the 2008 Bilderberg  Senior Fellow In office 2017 - Present Employer Cato Institute Preceded by Hannes Adomeit  Foreign Affairs Editor In office 2010 - 2015 Employer Jyllands-Posten  Cultural editor In office April 2004 - 2010 Employer Jyllands-Posten  Moscow correspondent In office 1999 - 2004 Employer Jyllands-Posten Preceded by Christiane Hoffmann, James Meek  Washington correspondent In office 1996 - 1999 Employer Berlingske Tidende Succeeded by Jake Tapper  Moscow correspondent In office 1980 - 1996 Employer Berlingske Tidende Succeeded by Christiane Hoffmann

Flemming Rose is best known for commissioning a group of drawings of Muhammad that were published in Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005. His stated reasoning was that many European creative artists had engaged in self-censorship out of fear of Muslim violence.

James Petras suggested there was more to the story:

This is where the Flemming Rose-Mossad operation came into the picture. The Islamic-hate cartoons were published in Denmark in September 2005 as Israeli and US Zionists escalated their war propaganda against Iran. The initial response from the Islamic countries however was limited. The story wasn't picked up until late December 2005. By early January 2006, Mossad Katsas (Hebrew for case officers) activated sayanim (volunteer Jewish collaborators outside of Israel) throughout Western and Eastern European media to simultaneously reproduce the cartoons on Feb. 1 and 2, 2006.

A strident campaign was launched in practically all the pro-Western mass media condemning the initial, relatively moderate Islamic protests, which had occurred between September to December 2005 and rapidly provoked the subsequent massive escalation, doubtlessly aided by covert Mossad operatives among Arab populations.

The issue could be presented as a free speech issue, a conflict of "values" not "interests", between the "democratic West" and the fundamentalist "totalitarian" Islamists. Visual images of violent protests and demonstrations were featured by the Western mass media, successfully creating the intended fear and apprehension against Muslim countries and minorities in Europe. Islamophobia gained momentum. Zionist propagandists in Europe and the US linked the defense of free speech issue to Israeli security policies.

Education

Rose graduated with a degree in Russian language and literature from University of Copenhagen (a spooky education and early career).

Career

From 1980 to 1996 he was the Moscow correspondent for the newspaper Berlingske Tidende. Between 1996 and 1999 he was that newspaper's correspondent in Washington, D.C. In 1999 he became Moscow correspondent for Jyllands-Posten and in April 2004 was named its cultural editor, replacing Sven Bedsted. Since 2010, he has been the paper's foreign affairs editor. In November 2015, Rose announced that he was leaving Jyllands-Posten.

Until the publication of the Muhammad cartoons, Rose's journalistic work was largely determined by his focus on the Soviet Union and Russia, respectively.

As head of culture at the Jyllands-Posten, Rose commissioned the Mohammed cartoons, which were published in the newspaper on 30 September 2005. Rose wanted to use this as a sign against the self-censorship he perceived in connection with Islam topics. The publication of the cartoons caused a serious political crisis. As the editor in charge, Rose received numerous death threats. He has been under police protection since then.

After the crisis following the Muhammad publication, Rose traveled around the United States where he interviewed among others the neocons Francis Fukuyama, Bill Kristol, Richard Perle and Bernard Lewis.

Since 2017, he has been employed as a senior researcher at the US Cato Institute, where he focuses in particular on freedom of expression.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2008	5 June 2008	8 June 2008	US Virginia Chantilly	The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive conference	13 March 2008	14 March 2008	Italy Rome European University of Rome	Alarmist conference
Valdai Discussion Club/2021	18 October 2021	21 October 2021	Russia Sochi	18th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled "Global Shake-Up in the 21st Century: The Individual, Values, and the State"

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