Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat asks after last week's "Molly Norris in hiding" stories, which I think makes this officially the most high-profile decision to go low-profile ever, although it's not like Norris had any control over that, either. Westneat spills more thorough details as to what Norris was actually advised, notes that Norris is still around town, and suggests that that an alternative strategy could have involved regional politicians and community leaders weighing in. I think they should have weighed in anyway, I don't understand how one of your constituents is threatened you don't have any response at all, but in the end the danger seems to be some independent wackjob taking it upon themselves to do something and there's not much protection for anyone against that.

* Sheila Musaji asks if the American Muslim community can do something to protect Norris. It's linked out pretty spectacularly to important articles and opinion pieces on the story as it developed, if you want to catch up.

* here's a piece on the Seattle Islamic community's reaction.

* if you want to put a name to the impulse coming from Al Qaeda to bomb the Jyllands-Posten building, it's Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri.
 
posted 9:00 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives