This has been a difficult season for freedom of speech.
Comedy Central, which famously dabbles in outrageous content, found a “South Park” episode including Muhammad in a bear suit too outrageous, and censored the show after receiving threats of violence from Muslim extremists targeting the show’s writers. When Seattle Weekly cartoonist Molly Norris tried to rally support for the “South Park” writers by organizing an “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” (on the premise that there is safety in numbers), she, too, was threatened. Her publisher, following in the timid footsteps of Comedy Central, promptly announced that it would no longer carry her works. Norris herself has gone into hiding.
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