September 15, 2010
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day
Remember this:
Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki puts 'Everybody Draw Mohammed' cartoonist Molly Norris on execution hitlistSo (from the Seattle Weekly):
A CHARISMATIC terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day" on an execution hit list.
Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki - the radical who has also been cited as inspiring the Fort Hood, Tex., massacre and the plot by two New Jersey men to kill U.S. soldiers - singled out artist Molly Norris as a "prime target," saying her "proper abode is hellfire."
On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From ViewI remember back when Salman Rushdie published his Satanic Verses and had a Fatwa put out on him. A lot of people in Seattle wore buttons that said: "I am Salman Rushdie" -- we need a bunch of buttons saying: "I am Molly Norris" The comments at both sites are a good read. The Seattle Weekly ones have a lot of depressingly clueless Kumbayah singers while the Citizens of New York have some righteous fire in their belly and do not suffer kindly to fools (especially those who behind that idiot who tried to blow up Times Square). Posted by DaveH at September 15, 2010 4:08 PM
You may have noticed that Molly Norris' comic is not in the paper this week. That's because there is no more Molly.
The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, "going ghost": moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity. She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor. She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program�except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab. It's all because of the appalling fatwa issued against her this summer, following her infamous "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" cartoon.
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