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Jakarta - Molly Norris tidak hanya menyesal dan meminta maaf pada umat Muslim karena mengusulkan 'gerakan' menggambar Nabi Muhammad. Dia kini bahkan ikut berkampanye menentang grup Facebook yang mengajak menggambar Nabi tersebut.

Norris kini mengajak publik untuk bergabung dengan grup 'Against Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'. Ajakan ini dipasang di bagian paling atas situs pribadinya, mollynorris.com saat dikunjungi detikcom, Kamis (20/5/2010).

"Saya bergabung dengan 'Against Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' di Facebook. Klik di sini untuk ikut bergabung," tulis Norris sembari memberikan tautan laman.

Norris juga memajang foto Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih yang merupakan seorang muslim. Bahkan, dia juga membuat klarifikasi cukup panjang terkait kartunnya yang sempat beredar luas.

"Dear, para penganut Islam. Saya meminta maaf, orang-orang itu menganggap serius kartun saya," kata Norris dalam klarifikasi soal kartunnya.

Bahkan, secara tegas Norris menyatakan menolak permintaan sejumlah pihak agar dia memimpin gerakan menggambar kartun Nabi Muhammad. "Persetan dengan kalian yang marah karena saya tidak mau memimpin 'gerakan'. Kartun ini adalah yang pertama dan terakhir," jelasnya.

Kartunis ini pun mengakui memang menerima banyak email soal ajakan menggambar Nabi yang menurutnya hanya bercanda itu. Terhadap pihak yang marah karena Norris tidak mau meneruskan ajakan itu, sang kartunis mengatakan justru email-email yang paling berkesan dikirim oleh umat Islam.

"Email terindah yang saya terima dikirim oleh Muslim," ujarnya.

Sementara itu pendiri grup 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' di Facebook mengatakan apa yang dilakukannya bukanlah perlombaan. Dia ingin meluruskan berbagai pihak yang menganggap grupnya adalah bentuk kontes.

"Ini bukanlah kompetisi. Kita semua menang dan kita semua kalah," kata sang pendiri grup yang mengaku bernama Andy seperti dikutip detikcom, Kamis (20/5/2010).

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LAMPIRAN DARI BLOG MOLLY MORRIS:

CAIR: A Muslim Response to 'Draw Muhammad Day'by CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad

TimesOnline: Cartoonist draws a line under contest to picture Prophet by Mike Harvey

I joined "Against Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" on facebook. Click here to join.

Seattleite's 'Draw Mohammed' cartoon draws heat: Seattle cartoonist suggested "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" as a cartoon satire, never intending it as a real day. By Janet Janet I. Tu Seattle Times staff reporter

"My cartoon was the beginning and end of expressing my personal views about Comedy Central's South Park censorship. If I had wanted my one-off cartoon to be the basis for a worldwide movement to draw Mohammed, then at this moment I should be thrilled," Norris tells Comic Riffs today. "But instead I am horrified! My one-off cartoon that was specifically about Comedy Central's behaviour vs. Revolution Muslim's threat leading to a slippery slope of censorship in America is not good for a long-term plan. The results have shown to be vitriolic and worse, offensive to Muslims who had nothing to do with the censorship issue I was inspired to draw about in the first place." Molly

I did NOT 'declare' May 20 to be "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." I made a cartoon about the television show South Park being censored. (I wish that was what our energies were going toward -- protesting revolutionmuslim.com's threat to Comedy Central, and Comedy Central's over reaction to it which set America on a slippery slope toward censorship!) At any rate, my satirical poster, with a fake 'group' behind it (Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor) was taken seriously, hijacked and made viral. I never started a facebook page; I never set up any place for pepole to send drawings to and I never received any drawings (I see that two European graduate students and anotherwoman started the facebook pages). My one-off cartoon does not work well as a long-term plan. The vitriol this 'day' has brought out, of people who only want to draw obscene images, is offensive to Muslims who did nothing to endanger our right to expression in the first place. Only Viacom and Revolution Muslim are to blame, so...draw them instead! I apologize to people of Muslim faith and ask that this 'day' be called off. Thank you to those who are turning this crazy thing into an opportunity for dialogue. Oh, and screw all of you who are mad at me for not leading a 'movement'. My cartoon was the beginning and end of what I had to say about this creepy, historic censorship. (By the way, where is Cowardly Central now? Pretty dang quiet. Guess they can dish it out but can't take it.) Sincerely, Molly P.S. The nicest email I have received have been from Muslims. (I regret going on the Dave Ross radio show on April 25th, before my cartoon went viral; my ego took me there. It was a mistake to go there when I wasn't clear about things. I let myself get side-swiped. Crap!)