Posted on 09/17/2010 3:20:55 PM PDT by traumer
U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris has been declared a 'target' by radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has issued a fatwa calling for her death.
The social satirist, who stirred up a religious storm earlier this year with a tongue-in-cheek encouragement to draw images of the Muslim prophet Mohammed, has gone into hiding after threats to her safety.
Cleric al-Awlaki, 39, who is thought to be hiding in Yemen and has links to al Qaeda, said in the June issue of 'Inspire', an English-language magazine for American Muslim youth, that Norris was a 'prime target' whose 'proper abode is hellfire.'
Now the Seattle Weekly says Norris has been told by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to 'go ghost' following the news of the fatwa.
'On the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI,' Norris is 'moving, changing her name and essentially wiping away her identity,' says the Seattle Weekly.
Norris, whose work regularly appears in the Seattle paper, gained international attention in the spring after she drew a mock promotion of an imaginary event, 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.'
The threat didn't become public until now because authorities thought it might be fake - until the full, 67-page issue of Inspire was recently posted on a jihadi message board.
The spoof picture drawn by Norris, which was published on Facebook, depicted various inanimate objects – including a coffee cup and a domino – each claiming to be the true likeness of the founder of Islam.
The cartoon was taken seriously by many, although Norris apologized to Muslims shortly after it was published in April. Norris she was just joking but the idea had already been widely circulated on internet sites and emailed around the world and soon more than 100,000 followers were on Facebook supporting the event.
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Was she a liberal before this? If so, is she now?
“Cleric al-Awlaki, 39, who is thought to be hiding in Yemen”
Best line in the story. These perverts hide behind young boys brainwashed to blow themselves up. Come out of hiding you sick freak and blow yourself up for Allah.
Anwar al-Awlaki is acting exactly like mohammad did when he polluted the earth with his presence.
First they came for the cartoonists ...
Perhaps we should provide Safe Houses/ a sort of Underground Railway/ for those who dare to exercise their Freedom of Speech. This cartoonists, the bold transit guy who dared to burn pages of the Koran, etc. These people are stepping out in faith that We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident.
We do still have that one,don’t we??
They just never caught up with civilization.
Say WA? Evergreen State ping There is an impenetrable wall between ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ for 99.9% of the liberals. If she is a liberal, she will probably blame the Jihad against her on Fox news.
Meanwhile the guy who did the “piss Christ” is out and about and enjoying all the freedoms that this country gives to America haters.
They have no desire to catch up. They want the control that came with information being controlled and coming from themselves and about themselves with the outcome being themselves. Kinda like Obamby.
She’s in hiding and of course the paper puts her picture in the article.
Don’t worry, the FBI gave her a new name. Probably Mary Jones.
LOL! Porky the Prophet!
Where is our empty suit President on this? He has been oh so concerned about Muslim First Amendment rights to do the Ground Zero Mosque, doesn’t he care about the First Amendment rights of an American citizen and journalist??? Where are the chattering classes on this? This is a direct attack on freedom of the press and all you hear is crickets from the MSM.
Mohammad was a lousy stinking pervert who was possessed by the devil, as are his ignorant followers. And I ain’t moving. Come and get me.
Howz about: She dies, you die, you muzzie slimeball.
And we mean it.
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