Religion of Peace Drives a Cartoonist Underground

The cartoonist who came up with "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" has had to go underground for her own protection. From the Seattle News:

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.

Given Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's thoughts that burning a Koran might not be constitutional because of reactions from crazy people, I guess this will mean that we can no longer publish anything that might cause the nuts...to go nuts.