"What kind of civilization are we... if we refrain from mocking and ridiculing bin Laden and his followers?" A defiant response to the latest threat against freedom of expression in Europe.
When Kurt Westergaard drew a cartoon of Mohammed in 2005, he considered it "just another day at the office." PJM's Flemming Rose, who commissioned that cartoon, tells of his friend's bravery in the face of threats against his life.
PJM Copenhagen: Following terrorist death threats, Swedish artist Lars Vilks, like other Europeans who before him who dared to mock Islam, has gone into hiding. PJM's Flemming Rose reports.
PJM Copenhagen: Flemming Rose - PajamasXpress blogger and the editor behind the publication of the infamous Mohammed cartoons - details the links between Tuesday's Al Qaeda arrests in Copenhagen and two earlier events in Denmark.
Angry Muslim reaction after last week's decision by Queen Elizabeth to knight Salman Rushdie came as no surprise. Unfortunately, too many people do not understand the serious consequences of misplaced respect for offended religious feelings. A prime example - the United Nation's Human Rights Council's passage of a scandalous resolution condoning state punishment of speech deemed insulting to religion, which helps regimes that silence criticism and crush dissent. by Flemming Rose