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stevenleser

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Sun Jan 18, 2015, 02:31 AM Jan 2015

Cartoonist still in hiding due to al-Awlaki fatwa. Reason #325 why he got what he deserved [View all]

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/national/cartoonist-hiding-islamic-death-threat-article-1.2073298#bmb=1

The horrific massacre of Charlie Hebdo staff is a somber reminder that an American cartoonist has fearfully been in hiding since 2010.

Molly Norris, a former cartoonist with the Seattle Weekly, vanished on advice of the FBI after Islamic militant Anwar al-Awlaki put her on a hit list for creating “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.”

“She had to completely change her identity, disappear from her work,” Larry Kelley, the founder of the Free Molly Norris Foundation, told KOMO-TV this week.
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Pretty sure Molly is "she." NaturalHigh Jan 2015 #1
al-Awlaki, however, is a he. nt Codeine Jan 2015 #2
Oh, I see. NaturalHigh Jan 2015 #3
Kick nt stevenleser Jan 2015 #4
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