Seattle cartoonist goes into hiding on FBI advice after Fatwa issued

[Liberal_in_LA]

Seattle cartoonist goes into hiding on FBI advice
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer
(09-16) 16:31 PDT SEATTLE, (AP) --

A Seattle cartoonist who became the target of a death threat with a satirical piece called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" has gone into hiding on the advice of the FBI.

Seattle Weekly editor-in-chief Mark D. Fefer announced in Wednesday's issue that Molly Norris' comic would no longer appear in the paper.

Fefer wrote that the FBI advised Norris to move, change her name and wipe away her identity because of a religious edict issued this summer that threatened her life.

"She is, in effect, being put in a witness-protection program — except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab," Fefer wrote. He told The Associated Press on Thursday that he had nothing further to say because it's a sensitive situation.


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[dkf]

1. Wasn't this some time ago?

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Yeah but she's just now ending comic strip and going into hiding

[customerserviceguy]

3. Burn a Koran, draw a cartoon

It's all the same to some members of "The Religion of Peace". Even if someone else in your country does either of the above.

[applegrove]

4. That is so sad.