Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The "Religion of Peace" strikes again

The Seattle Weekly cartoonist who advocated the "Everybody Draw Mohamed Day" as a protest against the threats leveled by the so-called "Religion of Peace" adherents against cartoonists who satirize Mohamed and Islam, has taken the advice of the FBI and gone into hiding, due to the public calls for her execution by, you guessed it, some kindly folks from the aforementioned Religion of Peace:
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. ...
Article here. Just remember, boys and girls, that Islam is a Religion of Peace, because if you say or suggest otherwise, they'll kill you.

[Via Ann Althouse, via Maxed Out Mama. You might want to take a look at some of the comments to both Althouse's and M.O.M.'s posts.]

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