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Ex-Muslims on the Front Lines in the Battle for Civil Society
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Ex-Muslims on the Front Lines in the Battle for Civil Society

By Faith Quintero

Nov 19, 2020
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A little more than ten years ago, American cartoonist Molly Norris drew a spool of thread, a domino, a teacup, and a few other inanimate objects and gave them names. After Norris’s drawings became public, Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki ordered a fatwa—an order for Muslims to kill her.1 Norris offended Muslims by her whimsical drawings with the headline, …

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