Remember “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day?”
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.
Keep in mind: this is the FBI telling an American citizen that not only can they not protect her… that there was a need for such protection in the first place. This would seem to indicate that the FBI is pretty convinced that there just might be something a little dangerous about this whole “freedom of speech and religion” thing… at least if your speech and religion just happen to not be entirely complimentary to some particular ideology.
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There are those who say we should apologize for her actions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/opinion/19kristof.html
“There are those who say we should apologize for her actions:”
I’d rather die.
Well, I wouldn’t “rather die”, but there is something seriously wrong when a US citizen has to fear for their life for expressing their right to free speech and expression.
Would that be alone in regards to Islam versus Christianity; but I can guarantee you it isn’t, as I’m sure there are a lot of Islamic-Amercians who would be scared shitless to actually state what the really thought about things in general regarding religion for fear for their lives.
BTW, Brianna…I find your revisionist statements regarding warlocks personally insulting, as I was one 30 years back, and will have you know that I was capable of throwing one mighty successful curse against someone who screwed a friend of mine over at the time.
Now, it might seem a bit strange to be rooting for Fairuza Balk’s character in “The Craft”, but you have to admit she took the whole witch power concept and ran with it more than anyone else in the movie did.
Can you imagine the fortune she could have made in the seafood business if she could use magic to make all the fish beach themselves rather than needing to send out a fishing fleet?
A slight shift in concept, and she goes from villain to capitalist hero.
Why doesn’t she just kill the terrorist? She has that God given Constitutionally protected right self defense.
Because he’s in Yemen. And because liberals don’t believe in the right to self-defense… they’re too busy feeling squishy about those who drive them to the necessity.