Thursday, September 16, 2010

Molly Norris, Artist Behind 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' Cartoon, Goes Into Hiding

 
Pakistani Muslims burn an effigy of Molly Norris, an American cartoonist during a protest against Facebook in Karachi on May 26,.
Asif Hassan, AFP / Getty Images

Radical Islam wins one.

FROM AOLNEWS.COM:

Molly Norris, Artist Behind 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' Cartoon, Goes Into Hiding

David Knowles Writer
AOL News Surge Desk
(Sept. 15) -- So much for freedom of speech.

At the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the Seattle-based illustrator and cartoonist whose satirical drawing marking "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" resulted in death threats, global protests and impassioned debate about religion and censorship, has been forced to change her name and abandon her former life as a result of her controversial cartoon.

The news that Morris had, out of concerns for her safety, decided to go into hiding was first reported in the Seattle Weekly today, a paper where Norris' cartoons had regularly appeared:
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