MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Citing bans on Holocaust denial in European countries, Flemming Rose stressed that liberal democracy should not "criminalize opinions no matter how outrageous and stupid" they were.
"The key limitations to free speech in a democracy should be incitement to violence <…> Incitement to violence and protection of privacy, those are to me the two foundational pillars when it comes to necessary limitations on speech in a democracy," Rose said on the sidelines of the New Era of Journalism: Farewell to Mainstream forum hosted by Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
Rose is best known for commissioning to publish satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in Jyllands-Posten, a Danish daily newspaper, in September 2005.
