The gifted artist is alive and well, thankfully. But on the insistence of top security specialists at the FBI, she is, as they put it, "going ghost": moving, changing her name, and essentially wiping away her identity. She will no longer be publishing cartoons in our paper or in City Arts magazine, where she has been a regular contributor. She is, in effect, being put into a witness-protection program--except, as she notes, without the government picking up the tab.
Sounds to me like she and those top security specialists at the FBI are Islamophobic.
Hat Tip: Jihad Watch
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Heh... yeah.. the 'phobia' part says "irrational fear", yet everybody conflates that with perfectly rational fears such as being assassinated for drawing cartoons.
Might be some value in a government 'honey pot' sham blasphemer planted explicitly to draw out those who would kill them. Of course, what happens if your 'honey pot' winds up with a log jam of would-be assassins too lengthy to put in jail?
Such a project would at least give some veracity to assurances that the threats are not going to be carried out.
Either way,. this just sucks, especially when the FBI is basically in on the gag and effectively helping the intimidators rather than, say, posting a guard (of all the things we can do with taxpayer money, I'd think safeguarding 1st amendment rights against thugs would rank high up there).
Hi fooburger,
I agree with you. I would like the FBI to use this to catch some of these thugs. Or at least to guard her.
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