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Filipino Muslims hold a banner during a rally outside the Danish embassy in Manila's Makati financial district February 15, 2006. The protesters were demonstrating against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad that were published by a Danish newspaper.

Cartoons of Muhammad sparked global outrage, but the man who approved them has no regrets

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Flemming Rose was the Danish newspaper editor responsible for running the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 that sparked global outrage. Now he’s written a book about the episode and holds fast to his belief that publishing them was the right and necessary thing to do.

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