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Flemming Rose - Defending Tolerance Over Free Speech

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Today's www.thorholt.com Write With Courage guest is Flemming Rose: Author of Tyranny of Silence… Flemming is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, a Journalist, and Author. His latest book in English is Tyranny of Silence. After 14 years of working as a foreign correspondent in Russia and the USA, he returned home to Denmark in 2004 to pursue a more stable life! Find out more about Flemming and his work http://www.tyrannyofsilence.net    - What is blasphemy to one man may sound as poetry to another man - Making a newspaper is always the art of the possible! - The point here is that context often gets lost in translation… the cartoons did not come out of the blue…it was not something I invented… - We must Focus on the true original meaning of tolerance, not free speech - It's a consequence of the digital world…creates possibility of misunderstandings and manipulations…and humor is always very context dependent! Even Charlie Hebdo will not be understood in the UK