Rebeca Morla of PanamPost reports:
ISIS Radical Threatens Ecuador’s Top Cartoonist with Death
Bonil’s Gibe at Barbarism Not Funny to Enemy of the Infidels
Fundamedios, an NGO that advocates for free speech in the country, reported on Wednesday, March 4, that El Universo received a written statement in its readers mailbox titled, “A warning to the cartoonist Bonil.”+
It was signed by a person identified as José Muñiz, who claims to be a 22-year-old Ecuadorian citizen, student of Islam, and member of the Islamic State (ISIS).
Here’s the cartoon that has Muñiz’s panties in a bunch:
Bonil’s cartoon, titled “Fundamentalism and Barbarism,” was published on Sunday, March 1, in El Universo: “Let’s put an end to cultural expressions of the infidels!” “By Allah! The internet is slow … I cannot submit our video to Twitter and Facebook.”
And Bonil’s tweet,
El fundamentalismo y la barbarie. Estado Islámico pic.twitter.com/zPm7I0Cr0j
— Xavier Bonilla (@bonilcaricatura) March 1, 2015