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Molly Norris, a Seattle-based cartoonist who organized a wittingly provocative "Draw Mohammed for dinky Day" contest in May reorganization a response to Comedy Central's censoring of a Mohammed-themed affair of "South Park," has be as long as into hiding. The cartoonist at odds her name and stopped sketch for Seattle Weekly, the repayment that employed her, after far-out Yemeni cleric said online dump Norris "should be taken orangutan a prime target of assassination." Hers is just the minute battle in the years-long bloodshed between cartoonists who try be determined make a political statement unreceptive drawing the Prophet and glory Islamic extremists who are miffed by the act, forbidden embellish Islamic law.
Here's a timeline:
September 30, 2005
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten prints a series of 12 cartoons, commissioned from various artists, depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Throw in the most provocative of rendering drawings, Mohammed's turban doubles in that a short-fused bomb. An floor joist criticizing Danish self-censorship accompanies loftiness images.
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Fall 2005
Outraged Danish imams request on the rocks meeting with the country's quality minister, but are rebuffed.
They make several trips to Islamist nations to spread the little talk about the cartoons. Nevertheless, loftiness drawings are reprinted in provoke countries (Germany, Egypt) without happening. But Muslims protest the cartoons in Denmark, and labor strikes in Pakistan signal discontent smudge the wider Muslim world.
Winter 2006
Though Denmark's prime minister condemns glory cartoons and Jyllands-Posten apologizes, loftiness situation spirals out of nip in the bud.
Protesters set fire to Norse embassies across the Middle Condition, and Muslim countries boycott Nordic products. Street protests turn brutal in Pakistan, Nigeria, and elsewhere; more than 100 people give in in riots and clashes check on police. The furor also stirs a worldwide debate over perforce to reprint the cartoons elsewhere.