After reading that Flemming Rose, the "cultural editor" of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and chief "agent provocateur" behind the 12 provocative and inflammatory anti-Muslim cartoons, has now taken a permanent "vacation" from the newspaper I thought I should post, for the record, the main correspondence between us.
I thought then, as I think now, that Mr. Rose is a Zionist of Jewish descent and that he is being dishonest about his reasons for commissioning and publishing the anti-Muslim cartoons.
Many Polish and Russian Jews who immigrated to Denmark in the past went through a baptism service and outwardly became Christians in order to facilitate their work in an overwhelmingly Christian nation while remaining fully aware of their tribal bonds and Jewish ethnicity. I suspect that Mr. Rose is in this category.
Perhaps he has retired to Tel-Aviv and will soon have a name change and some cosmetic surgery. He may have received a generous pension from the State of Israel for service to the Zionist cause.
For the record, I am posting my correspondence with the editors of Jyllands-Posten (who never responded) and the responses that I got from Flemming Rose. We will start from the beginning:
Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:54:25 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Dear JP - So Who the Hell is Flemming Rose?
To: redaktionssekretariatet@jp.dk
CC: udland@jp.dk, kultur@jp.dk
From: Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press, Washington, D.C.
To: Jyllands-Posten, Denmark
Re: So Who is Flemming Rose and Why is He Making So Much Trouble for Muslims?
Dear Jyllands-Posten,
I have read with interest the recent article in The International Herald Tribune about the anti-Muslim cartoons commissioned by your cultural czar, Flemming Rose.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/30/news/islam9.php
I noticed that Mr. Rose would not publish a cartoon that depicted the Israeli leader Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian child, as that would be seen as "racist." I note that he has fled to Miami to escape the angry Moslem hordes and lovely winter of Copenhagen.
From the online photos by Lone Jurgensen of Mr. Rose, I can see that Mr. Rose certainly appears to be more of a Jew than a Dane. I suspect that he is an Ashkenazi Jew of Russian ancestry, i.e. from the Pale of Settlement or Russia proper.
I hope that I have not broken any Danish laws by asking these questions.
http://pics.jp.dk/nybillede/images/7551.jpg
I must ask: Why have you let your newspaper be dragged into this ridiculous and provocative situation?
Do you truly wish to antagonize the Muslim people?
Did you not see what happened when Salman Rushdie wrote his anti-Muslim book?
Don't you have any respect for any culture outside of tiny Denmark?
Or have you let a wild a crazy Zionist run amok and wreck things for your newspaper?
I suspect the latter.
I look forward to your prompt response. I am working on an article about this matter. It is, after all, another sordid chapter in the Zionist-run Clash of Civilizations.
I am just not sure which side Denmark is on.
Best wishes for a Happy New Year, or do you only celebrate the Jewish New Year?
Christopher Bollyn
(as a private person. The opinions herein expressed are only those of the author and can not be attributed to any other agency.)
Flemming Rose Responded on the same day from another mailbox:
Re: sharon and cartoons
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:15:34 +0100
From: "Flemming Rose" <flemming.rose@jp.dk>
To: afp_europe@yahoo.com
just to inform you: i was misquoted, and in fact i published a cartoon with sharon as a butcher of palestinian children, and i am not a jew although i would be proud to be one as i am of my danish ancestry.
i support freedom of speech and i am against selfcensorship
best wishes
Flemming Rose
Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten
kulturredaktør
tlf.: +45-33308215
+45-87383147
+45-20194094
email: flemming.rose@jp.dk
A month later, I asked Mr. Rose again about his ethnicity:
Sendt: on 01.02.2006 20:16
Til: Flemming Rose
Emne: But, are you jewish?
Dear Mr. Rose,
You wrote to me saying that you are not Jewish, but it certainly appears that among Danes you are thought to be Jewish.
The following Danish writer described you as "the Jew Flemming Rose" in 2004:
"Husk lige hvordan Jyllands Postens navnløse lederskribent (skal vi gætte det er Jøden Flemming Rose?)" [i.e. "Shall we guess that is the Jew Flemming Rose?"]
My question pertains not only to your religion, but your ethnic background. Are your parents or ancestors Jewish? If not, why are you described in the Danish media as "the Jew Flemming Rose?"
It is not necessary to hide your ethnicity if you are proud of it.
Thank you,
Christopher Bollyn
Mr. Rose responded thusly:
SV: But, are you jewish?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 20:21:52 +0100
From: "Flemming Rose" <flemming.rose@jp.dk>
To: afp_europe@yahoo.com>
dear chris,
for the record, no i am not jewish and my ancestors are not jewish.
ask them where they have their information from?
best
flemming
