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'Draw Mohammed Day’ Cartoonist Changes Identity, Goes Into Hiding Over ROP Death Threats
From Weasel Zippers:
(Seattle Weekly) — 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.
Norris views the situation with her customary sense of the world’s complexity, and absurdity. When FBI agents, on a recent visit, instructed her to always keep watch for anyone following her, she responded, “Well, at least it’ll keep me from being so self-involved!” It was, she says, the first time the agents managed a smile
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‘everybody Draw Muhammad Day’ Creator, Freedom Of Speech Disappear
From Big Peace:I am curious to see what happens when President Obama invites Molly Norris to the White House for a beer. Oh, wait… Molly Norris can’t go to the White House for beer because Molly Norris no longer exists; any trace of her has been...
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Spencer On Molly Norris: A Fugitive From Jihad
In Front Page this morning Robert Spencer discusses the sad case of Molly Norris, the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonist, who has gone into hiding: [...] This is the sort of case that the President of the United States should be talking...
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The Case Of Molly Norris Simply Proves Islam Is A Criminal Organization
From Winds of Jihad: Molly Norris apologized for “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” and clerics calls for her death anyway (Yakima Conservative Examiner)Death sentences for cartoonists? Good golly, Ms. MollyDeath Threats for Molly Norris (Reality bites,...
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To Murder Molly Norris
I'm taking this personally in a way I haven't done even when I'm the one under direct attack by jihadis: An American jihadi is calling for the the murder of Molly Norris. My usual good temper is shot to shit right now. Scaring Molly Norris...
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Creator of “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day” Now Says She Wants Nothing to do With it, Declares Herself an “Idiot” Way to stand up for what you believe in…. Via LA Times “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day?” As South Park’s Sheila Broflovski...
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