As state policy leaders work to fight COVID-19 and its broader impacts, the Cato Institute’s team of subject matter experts are looking at public policy best practices to better inform response measures.

As humanity tackles the serious, global problems presented by the current pandemic, we should learn the lessons of the past and know that beating COVID-19 will require clear heads and a reliance on reason and data.

In 2005, Denmark found itself in the middle of an international crisis because its prominent newspaper, Jyllands‐​Posten, published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Now, 15 years later, a new study commissioned by the Danish government shows that the nation’s Muslim community is still uneasy with “criticism of Islam.” Cato Senior Fellows Flemming Rose and Mustafa Akyol discuss what this means, and how freedom of speech can be more widely appreciated by the Muslim community.