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Texas shooting: What have we learned five years after ‘Draw Muhammad Day’?

I SOMETIMES think about Molly Norris, and how this was never the world she wanted for herself.

Norris was the creator of an illustration that spawned “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day,” which was staged five years ago this month. The spirit of that message continues in events like the suburban Dallas cartoon exhibit that turned fatal over the weekend — the type of events that Norris soon disowned.