Seattle Cartoonist Goes Into Hiding

Fatwa Watch

Updated Apr. 24, 2017 5:43PM EDT / Published Sep. 16, 2010 7:06AM EDT

Molly Norris, a cartoonist for the Seattle Weekly, has gone into hiding after Islamic extremists put a fatwa on her head following her “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” cartoon. According to the Seattle Weekly, the FBI has encouraged her to “go ghost”: “moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity … She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program—except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab.” Norris created “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” as a protest against the censorship of South Park after Comedy Central refused to allow the show to depict Mohammed after receiving threats.

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Seattle Cartoonist Goes Into Hiding