Last week, a number of newspapers, including the Washington Post, decided not to run Sunday’s Non Sequitur comic. The cartoon featured a parody of the the popular Where’s Waldo? series of children’s books with the caption “Picture book title voted least likely to ever find a publisher…” followed by a drawing of a charming park scene and the answer/punchline: “Where’s Muhammad?” Andrew Alexander, the Post’s Omsbudsman, has now written a letter stating the paper’s editors were wrong for removing the cartoon.

In a disturbing and matter-of-fact article, Seattle Weekly’s editor in chief Mark D. Fefer explained to readers that there would not be a cartoon by Molly Norris in that week’s paper, nor would there be one in any future issues. No, she wasn’t fired. Norris has followed advice from the FBI, left town, and changed her name after a fatwa was placed on her by Islamic extremists following her cartoon promoting the made up “Draw Mohammed Day.”

In 2005, the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard sparked world-wide outrage with a simple piece of media: the now-infamous political cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb as a turban. A reviled figure in much of the Muslim world, Westergaard was attacked Friday night by a 28-year-old Somali man carrying a knife and ax. This morning, the assailant was charged with two counts of attempted murder on the Danish artist, according to the New York Times.