Go, Read: Michael Cavna Interviews Flemming Rose

Michael Cavna at Comic Riffs talks to Flemming Rose, the Jyllands-Posten editor that commissioned the Muhammad cartoons that led to the "Cartoon Crisis" of mid-last decade. It's an interesting interview, and I look forward to reading the book. Rose makes a fine point that Orthodox Christians in Russia have a lot in common with extremists responding in criminal fashion to perceived insults to Islam.

At the same time, I hope there's a better explanation to exactly what he was thinking when he commissioned those cartoons than what we get from his conversation with Cavna: that sounds like a practiced answer, not an insightful or reasonable one. I'm also glad Cavna pointed out the inherent silliness of standing against self-censorship and then self-censoring via the choice of publishing contract. A stand-alone book about those cartoons that doesn't include the cartoons seems silly to me, just as it would seems silly if I were to publish one of the cartoons here in a decorative/illustrative sense. I don't know why it seems to be so hard to sort out pretty basic journalistic and institutional responsibilities when it comes to this story.
 
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