Fatwa (death threat) on Molly Norris, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Cartoonist

Why was it not more widely in the news that I only just heard that terrorist cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki placed American artist Molly Norris on his hit list? I sure hope she has good protection. They have killed artists in the past. She has more courage than the South Park creators who backed off of their planned satire of Mohammed.  We must speak out against those who would threaten our free speech.  And we must protect each other from terror attack.

In an English-language Al Qaeda magazine that calls itself "Inspire," Awlaki damns Norris and eight others for "blasphemous caricatures" of the Prophet Muhammed. The other cartoonists, authors and journalists in Awlaki's cross hairs are Swedish, Dutch and British citizens.

The 67-page terror rag is seen by terrorism experts as a bald new attempt to reach and recruit Muslim youth in the West.

"The medicine prescribed by the Messenger of Allah is the execution of those involved," writes Awlaki, 39, a Las Cruces, N.M.-born American citizen.

"A soul that is so debased, as to enjoy the ridicule of the Messenger of Allah, the mercy to mankind; a soul that is so ungrateful towards its lord that it defames the Prophet of the religion Allah has chosen for his creation does not deserve life, does not deserve to breathe the air."

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