Rose/Warraq Win Freedom Prizes

Flemming Rose and Leon de Winter
in the Reagan Library’s “Oval Office” – photo: Roger L. Simon
Flemming Rose – cultural editor of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten and the man responsible for the publication of the Danish cartoons – and the pseudonymous Ibn Warraq – most literally “son of a papermaker,” author of Why I Am Not a Muslim, among other works – were awarded Heroes of Conscience medals by the American Freedom Alliance at a dinner at the Reagan Library Sunday night. The AFA will be be sponsoring a conference – The Collapse of Europe? – starting June 10 at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA. Speakers include Mark Steyn, Aayan Hirsi Ali and Leon de Winter.