{"id":1813,"date":"2010-07-11T22:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T05:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/07\/seattle_artist_molly_norris_fi\/"},"modified":"2010-07-11T22:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T05:57:33","slug":"seattle_artist_molly_norris_fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/seattle_artist_molly_norris_fi.html","title":{"rendered":"Seattle artist Molly Norris: first the death threats, then a Huffington Post bully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Correction:<\/b> The narrative in this post contains a crucial error. While Molly Norris published her cartoon &#8211; <i>Will the Real Likeness of the Prophet Mohammad Please Stand Up?<\/i> &#8211; she did not launch the <i>Draw Mohammad Day<\/i> facebook thread.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>After Comedy Central censored an episode of &#8220;South Park&#8221; that featured Muhammad in a bear suit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/simpsons-south-park-chalkboard-video\/\">The Simpsons<\/a> responded:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"simpsonschalkboard.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/simpsonschalkboard.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"328\" width=\"450\" \/>Who were they afraid of? The usual thugs ready to kill anyone who doesn&#8217;t see the world their way. Seattle artist Molly Norris attempted to lighten the issue with humor. Can&#8217;t depict Mohammad? How about as a purse, a cherry or a spool of thread?<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mollynorrisdrawm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/mollynorrisdrawm.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"499\" width=\"400\" \/><strike>Thinking like would attract like, she opened a facebook page and invited everybody to participate in Draw Mohammad Day. She was right; like did call to like.<\/strike> There was humor, a significant amount of art savvy and a gentle protest against those who make death threats against cartoonists.<br \/>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"notmohammed.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/notmohammed.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"446\" width=\"500\" \/>Then the haters showed up and filled pages with their contempt for all Muslims. Dismayed, Norris tried to shut it down. Too late, because hate also calls to hate.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/2010\/07\/11\/2010-07-11_cleric_anwar_alawlaki_puts_everybody_draw_mohammed_cartoonist_molly_norris_on_ex.html\">Sunday story<\/a> in the New York Daily News, Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlakih has singled her out for death, calling her a &#8220;prime target.&#8221; The FBI told her they are taking the threat very seriously. <\/p>\n<p>If that isn&#8217;t bad enough, Huffington Post columnist Eric Lurio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eric-lurio\/cartoonist-molly-norris-l_b_585597.html\">weighed in<\/a> with his own attack on Norris, saying that her interest in gentle satire makes her a wimp and her interest in staying alive makes her a coward. <\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Lurio: If you&#8217;re so interested in getting murdered, why don&#8217;t you go taunt a killer or two? How about thousands of killers? Want your name in their rifle sights? I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re a coward, but I do know you&#8217;re a bully, a bore and a fool. Crawl back under your rock and leave Molly Norris alone. <\/p>\n<p>Below, Norris in 2008, on the right. On the left, her collage, <i>Nat King Cole<\/i>, 2008, Paper, wire, gator board, paint, and glue, 60 in. x 32 in. x 9 in.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIMAGE REMOVED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correction: The narrative in this post contains a crucial error. While Molly Norris published her cartoon &#8211; Will the Real Likeness of the Prophet Mohammad Please Stand Up? &#8211; she did not launch the Draw Mohammad Day facebook thread.&nbsp; After Comedy Central censored an episode of &#8220;South Park&#8221; that featured Muhammad in a bear suit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}