Molly norris cartoonist peter

  • I've written a book in which Muslims guzzle wine, Jews own slaves, and Christians kill in the name of religion.
  • Peter No one has heard anything from the Seattle-based cartoonist Molly Norris since she went into hiding more than four years ago.
  • On the first Draw Muhammad Day took place as an initiative of a Seattle cartoonist, Molly Norris, following threats against two.

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    More on Molly Norris: Writer, medievalist speaks out

    Before she was erased

    I&#;m grateful that yesterday&#;s brev on Molly Norris, the cartoonist irrevocably linked with the Facebook “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” project that she repudiated, was at least part of the inspiration for this eminently sane rumination, from a guy inom never heard of before, an erstwhile cartoonist and current author, Jeff Sypeck.   (Postscript:  New York Times article just posted an hour ago here.)

    An excerpt, that doesn&#;t quite do Sypeck&#;s whole piece justice (again, read the whole mini-essay here):

    As far as I’m concerned, if you’re breaking no other laws, then you can säga whatever you want, draw whatever you want, and deface or defile anything that’s your own property, be it a flag, a holy symbol, an effigy, you name it. However, in return, inom reserve the right to judge you, denounce you, lobby against you, tell others how wrong you are, and speak vociferously in reply. Speech invit

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    This article is part of The Critique&#;s Great War Series Part II: Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech & Religious Violence Exclusive.

    In the early days of the Rushdie Affair, W.J. Wheaterby () in his book Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death(), summarized some scenarios that were suggested, and being discussed, to make an end to all the trouble, or at least ease the tension, around Rushdie as a person. Wheaterby mentioned: “giving up the paperback in return for the end of the death sentence; a blasphemy trial in London; facial surgery and a new identity in a part of the world with no Muslims”.[1]Wheaterby further commented: “None seem very likely at this stage”.[2]

    Now, two and a half decades later (and after the murder of Theo van Gogh,[3] the Danish Cartoon Affair[4] and Charlie Hebdo),[5] it is possible to reflect on these three proposals. The first, giving up the paperback, did not happen. The second, a blasphemy trial, did not happen either and is unlikely to

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    Flemming Rose and the absence of empathy

    An account of the Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis by one of its main instigators, the cultural editor of the paper which published them, Jyllands-Posten, is unsurprisingly lacking in self-awareness or understanding of his targets, says Danish anthropologist Peter Hervik.

    To a great extent, many of the stories touched upon by Flemming Rose in The Tyranny of Silence[1] as issues of free speech are uncomplicated, and it is easy to agree wholeheartedly with his concern. They go to the remote corners of the former Soviet Union in time and space, Hitler’s Nazism, 9/11 in New York and Washington and the Madrid bombings. Rose travels widely, conducts countless interviews and, by introducing his humble social background and family story, evokes sympathy for a man who wrestles with his own new importance and global reputation.

    Rose’s book came out in late , and has gained renewed interest in the early months of due to the Charlie Hebdo attack