International Free Press Society

The International Free Press Society (IFPS), founded on January 1, 2009, is a creation of the Danish Free Press Society. The stated purpose of IFPS "is to defend freedom of expression wherever and by whomever it is threatened".

The IFPS was created as an extension of Free Press Society, Denmark, created in 2004 by Lars Hedegaard, a Danish newspaper commentator. According to its own account, the Free Press Society arose because of increasing pressure on free speech, including the Danish Cartoon crisis. The Free Press Society claims to be "Denmark´s biggest organisation exclusively devoted to defending the right of free expression." The society is closely connected to the counterjihad movement and in the article The Muslim Conspiracy and the Oslo Massacre Liz Fekete, the Executive Director of the independent educational charity named Institute of Race Relations, argues that it is an instrument for pushing the boundaries of hate speech.

The International Free Press Society has contact with a range of international critics of Islam who argue that islamisation threatens Freedom of Speech, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali,Ibn Warraq, Daniel Pipes, Geert Wilders, Bruce Bawer and Henryk Broder. It also relays information from other sources, amongst which are the blogs Gates of Vienna and Jihad Watch, which have been characterised as islamophobic.

The Free Press Society, Denmark, among others, awarded Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard the Sappho Award, an award given to a 'journalist who combines excellence in his work with courage and a refusal to compromise'. His editor Flemming Rose is another recipient. As culture editor of Jyllands-Posten he commissioned the Muhammad cartoons, a move that resulted in the chief editor sending him on leave.

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