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About Carsten Juste
- Carsten Juste (born 6 July 1947) is a Danish journalist and former editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, a Danish large-circulation newspaper. Juste started out his career in 1979 as a trainee with Jyllands-Posten.
- He was its editor-in-chief from January 2003 until the end of April 2008.
- Juste was embroiled in the controversy following the paper's September 2005 publication of several cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
- In one comment Juste stated “We will not apologise, because we live in Denmark under Danish law, and we have freedom of speech in this country.
- If we apologised, we would betray the generations who have fought for this right, and the moderate Muslims who are democratically minded.”Juste claimed the international furor over the cartoons amounted to a victory for opponents of free expression.
- "Those who have won are dictatorships in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia, where they cut criminals' hands and give women no rights," Juste told The Associated Press.
- "The dark dictatorships have won." Danish police thwarted threats on the life of Juste and Jyllands-Posten staff members.In another comment, Juste admitted that the 12 cartoons, one of which depicted Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, had caused "serious misunderstandings".
- Carsten Juste said: "The 12 cartoons ...
- were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologise."
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