 Rose wrote the editorial which accompanied the cartoons in which he argued there had been several recent cases of self @-@ censorship , weighing freedom of speech against the fear of confronting issues about Islam , so he thought it was legitimate news story . Among the incidents he cited were : the translators of a book critical of Islam did not want their names published ; the Tate gallery in London withdrew an installation by the avant @-@ garde artist John Latham depicting the Quran , Bible and Talmud torn to pieces , and comedian Frank <unk> said in an interview with Jyllands @-@ Posten that he would hypothetically dare to urinate on the Bible on television , but not on the Quran . Rose also mentioned the case of a Danish imam who had met with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and " called on the prime minister to interfere with the press in order to get more positive coverage of Islam . " 
