After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.’ Norris told KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross that cartoonists are meant to challenge the lines of political correctness. ‘That’s a cartoonist’s job, to be non-PC.’ Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The group said it wasn’t threatening South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the addresses of Comedy Central’s New York office and the California production studio where South Park is made. ‘As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central’s message they sent about feeling afraid,’ Norris said. Norris has asked other artists […]
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Seattle Cartoonist Launches ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’
Author: JAMIE GRISWOLD
Source: MyNorthwest.com
Publication Date: Apr 23, 2010 - 2:49 pm
Link: Seattle Cartoonist Launches ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’
Source: MyNorthwest.com
Publication Date: Apr 23, 2010 - 2:49 pm
Link: Seattle Cartoonist Launches ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’
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