Much thanks to the amazing ATLAS,, for this piece she wrote,,

All I can do is shake my head and say wow,,, and wonder what our beloved freedoms in the WEST, will be like in 10 years from now,, if this OUTRAGEOUS situation continues,,

Washington Post, Cartoon Cowards

UPDATE: Style Editor Ned Martel tells Post ombudsman Andy Alexander that he chose to pull the cartoon after conferring with Executive Editor Marcus W. Brauchli and others because "it seemed a deliberate provocation without a clear message." He adds that "the point of the joke was not immediately clear" and that readers might think that Muhammad was somewhere in the drawing.

Wow. Surrender of the mightiest, most magnificent, most moral civilization in human history to savages is a mere update to a week-old WaPo article.

In yet another crushing blow to our basic founding principle of free speech, The Washington Post has pulled the "Where's Muhammad" cartoon off its website. The cartoon does not even depict Moe. It mentions him. But even this is too much for the dhimmedia. Afraid to publish the innocuous cartoon in their hard copy edition last Sunday, they made the transparent gesture, the half-assed accommodation to free speech, to publish the cartoon in their online edition. I wrote about it here, back on the 6th -- and it didn't take but a couple of days to surrender to Islam.

When you trade freedom for peace, you get neither.

This is the same newspaper that is shamelessly shilling for the Ground Zero Islamic supremacist mega mosque on hallowed ground, spitting on the memory of our precious loved ones. 70% of the American people are offended by the mega mosque. Sensitivities are not created equal. Not in Islam and not at the Washington Post.

Do the American people know what is being done to their basic freedoms? I think not. Will the news channels and the opinion shows make this their breaking story? Of course not. We have surrendered America in installments. Broken, piece by piece, we feed it to an insatiable, implacable enemy. America hasn't a clue. She's like Helen Keller and someone has moved the furniture again.

Just like the Ground Zero mosque, the media aided and abetted that stealth attack on the US by their silence. People found out about that outrageous stealth attack without the media. I only pray a story like this, just as devastating, gets the attention it deserves despite the media's complicit silence. The corrupt and gutless media won't do their jobs. They have abdicated their role of public servant in the dissemination of news and instead have become sharia puppets. It is the sharia (Islamic law) not to "defame" and not to "insult" Islam. The media is self enforcing sharia.

I despise their fear. My question to all of these cowards is, isn't the alternative more frightening? Isn't the ascension of sharia and blasphemy laws more frightening than proudly standing up for free speech and publishing a silly toon? Isn't the silencing of free men a scarier prospect than the whole of the global jihad?

Isn't freedom worth fighting for? Worth dying for? How dare they so casually relinquish that which our fathers, grandfathers and founding fathers fought so hard for and died for. Centuries of blood and toil brought us the gift, the United States of America, and it is disappearing. Thugs, barbarians and savages are dictating what we can and can't do and what we can and can't say.

This is not happening in a vacuum. It is all over. The ban on defenders of freedom like Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan, Ibn Warraq, et al at college campuses is chilling. Free speech, the cornerstone, the bedrock of our constitutional republic, is being lost without a shot.

The name Molly Norris should be a household word, but she is rarely spoken of. The poster girl for a free press doesn't exist.

Remember "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day?" A relatively unknown cartoonist, Molly Norris, declared "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" in response to the death threats (fatwa) issued against the producers of South Park on Comedy Central. Her thinking, rightly, of course, was that if everyone drew Muhammad, the jihadists couldn't kill everyone.........

But Ms. Norris had no clue what she stepped into. After Norris's brilliant idea went viral online, she became so spooked and worried that she had offended Muslims that she apologized for it and divorced herself from the idea, refraining from participation. That didn't matter; it wasn't long before the "charismatic" imam to the devout Muslim world had placed the Seattle cartoonist on an execution hit list. The ummah reacted to the contest with the same open-mindedness, tolerance and modernity we have come to expect.

Molly Norris disappears.

*Crickets chirp in newsrooms worldwide.*

Nihad Awad, co-founder of Hamas-linked, unindicted co-conspirator, Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR, was whining and deliberately inciting Gd knows what against me on O'Reilly for one of the cartoons I ran on May 20th, "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day." Watch this.

That's how far down the rabbit hole the shining beacon of freedom has gone: no stick figures or any depictions of Muhammad without putting your life in jeopardy.

Last Sunday: Editors Pass on Comic Strip With ‘Where’s Muhammad?’ (from Editor and
Publisher)

Some editors opted not to run Sunday’s “Non Sequitur” comic strip, which included a “Where’s Muhammad?” reference, according to The Washington Post’s “Comic Riffs” blog.

Wayne Miller’s strip on Sunday depicted a scene in a park with a variety of characters, with the caption, “Picture book title voted least likely to ever find a publisher: ‘Where’s Muhammad?’”

Some 20 papers, including the Portland Press Herald and the Boston Globe — both of which “Non Sequitur” Wiley Miller reads — opted to run a Sunday replacement strip featuring the recurring character Obvious-Man. "Non Sequitur" is syndicated by Universal UClick.

The Washington Post ran the strip online Sunday, but not in its print edition.

Miller told Comic Riffs, "I have absolutely no information on why any of the editors chose not to run it. All I can do is surmise that the irony of their being afraid to run a cartoon that satirizes media's knee-jerk reaction to anything involving Islam bounced right of their foreheads. So what they've actually accomplished is, sadly, [to] validate the point."

"Non Sequitur," which bowed in 1991, has won National Cartoonists Society division awards for Best Comic Strip and Best Comic Panel.

The irony of the cartoon's message should not get lost on anyone.

The quislings at the Washington Post pretended to be staunch defenders of free speech by running it online, but they weaseled out of their pathetic attempt at primciple. Here's what Wa Po said last week:

Depending on what newspaper you take, you may or may not see today's "Non Sequitur" comic that's captioned, in part, "...Where's Muhammad?"

Some newspapers chose instead to run a Sunday replacement strip featuring the recurring character Obvious-Man. So what was the editorial thinking behind the choice?

[..]

The Washington Post chose to run the "Where's Muhammad?" comic in its online edition but not in its Sunday print funnies, running an "Obvious-Man" replacement. Spokeswoman Kris Coratti said The Post had no comment on that decision.

But even that was too much for the spineless, gutless wonders. They have posted this update.

Update: Style Editor Ned Martel tells Post ombudsman Andy Alexander that he chose to pull the cartoon after conferring with Executive Editor Marcus W. Brauchli and others because "it seemed a deliberate provocation without a clear message." He adds that "the point of the joke was not immediately clear" and that readers might think that Muhammad was somewhere in the drawing.

"Non Sequitur," launched in 1991 by the Washington Post Writers Group, has won National Cartoonists Society division awards for Best Comic Strip and Best Comic Panel. Prior to creating "Non Sequitur," Wiley Miller was an editorial cartoonist at the Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record and the San Francisco Examiner.

[....]

Wiley's "Muhammad" comic comes in the wake of this year's "South Park" controversy over satirizing Muhammad; Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris's poster art in support of "South Park" having spawned "Everybody Draw Muhammad! Day"; and such illustrators as Norris, Lars Vilks and Kurt Westergaard having been placed on a death-threat list by Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi.

This is a dark day, my friends. They have no problem "offending" me and Spencer and calling us vile names (anti-Muslim, islamophobic, bigot, etc.) in their embarrassing and pathetic attempts to slake the bloodlust of their Islamic masters. How dare they surrender our freedoms and the future of our children and our nation for the comfort of their cocktail parties?

UPDATE: Wait, it gets worse. These sniveling cowards can't even own up to their gutlessness. Now they are calling it "an oversight." So censorship is now policy retroactively. Lying about it is SOP. Andrew Alexander at WaPo here:

Through an apparent oversight, the "Where's Muhammad?" cartoon was put on The Post's Web site. [Executive Editor Marcus] Brauchli said he was unaware, adding, "Ideally, we wouldn't have done that if we withheld it from print.

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