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The cartoonist behind the recent &#;Everybody Draw Mohammed Day&#; cartoon has been drawn into hiding after a fatwa was issued for her death. Molly Norris of the Seattle Weekly has gone into hiding on the recent advice of the FBI after being declared a &#;prime target&#; for death by extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in a June issue of &#;Inspire,&#; an English language magazine. &#;The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully,&#; a Seattle Weekly reporter wrote Friday. &#;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.
Ethan Sacks, &#;&#;Everybody Draw Mohammed Day&#; cartoonist Molly Norris goes into hiding after radical cleric&#;s fatwa,&#; New York Daily News, September 19,
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Responding to &#;Draw Muhammad Day&#; 5/20/10
In response to Comedy Central&#;s decision to censor an episode of a recent &#;South Park&#; featuring a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Muhammad after receiving threats from Muslim extremists, May 20th has been designated &#;Everybody Draw Muhammad Day&#; on a Facebook page with the same name. Since then, even the proponent of the original idea, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris who first suggested the day last month now says the campaign “has lost its anti-censorship focus and is now being used to bash ordinary Muslims.” She also told the Washington Post that “the Facebook protest had become ‘vitriolic and worse, offensive to Muslims who had nothing to do with the censorship issue I was inspired to draw about in the first place.’&#; Additionally, Jon Wellington, who set up the Facebook page, has quit the site, saying, &#;I did not create this event to encourage people to be deliberately offensive, by equating the silliness of those z
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Molly Norris, a Seattle-based cartoonist who organized a deliberately provocative "Draw Mohammed for a Day" contest in May as a response to Comedy Central's censoring of a Mohammed-themed episode of "South Park," has gone into hiding. The cartoonist changed her name and stopped drawing for Seattle Weekly, the newspaper that employed her, after a Yemeni cleric said online that Norris "should be taken as a prime mål of assassination." Hers fryst vatten just the latest battle in the years-long war between cartoonists who try to man a political statement bygd drawing the Prophet and the Islamic extremists who are outraged by the act, forbidden under Islamic law. Here's a timeline:
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The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten prints a series of 12 cartoons, commissioned from various artists, depicting the profet Mohammed. In the most provocative of the drawings, Mohammed's turban doubles as a short-fused bomb. An editorial criticizing Danish self-censorship accompanies the images