Jargology

The cartoonist who came up with last year’s “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” has moved, gone into hiding, and changed her name, at the insistence of the FBI.

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. 

This is, of course, because of the fatwa issued against her by Islamic extremists.

Further Reading: Seattle Weekly

Probably Genre: Post-grunge