17 September 2010

Cartoonist behind 'Draw Mohammed' Facebook page goes into hiding

Molly Norris, of Seattle, Washington, has moved and changed her name following a call for her assassination by US-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The Seattle weekly newspaper said: "You may have noticed that Molly Norris's 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." [telegraph.co.uk] Read more