Cartoonists Freedom Watch: Seattle Cartoonist Molly Norris Under Threat of Execution by Al-Qaida

Kathleen Parker, editorialist for the Washington Post Writers Group, wrote this week about Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris, who has been added to a list of eight other cartoonists, authors and journalists considered targets of execution by (the ironically named) Inspire, a new online, English-language Al-Qaida magazine.

Nineteen Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists have signed a petition condemning threats and
attacks against cartoonists worldwide.

I've signed it. Please consider signing it, too: http://www.cartoonistrights.com/

Kathleen Parker's essay: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071604206.html

The Huffington Post on the contoversy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/molly-norris-seattle-cart_n_645939.html

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