‘South Park’ Episode Is Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning
An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators that they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. Revolution Muslim, a group based in New York, wrote on its Web site that the “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker “will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh” for an episode shown last week in which a character said to be the Prophet Muhammad was seen wearing a bear costume. Mr. Van Gogh was slain in Amsterdam in 2004 after making a film that discussed the abuse of Muslim women in some Islamic societies.
Comedy Central censored South Park from even saying “Muhammed”:
Tim Blair posted Anderson Cooper’s report, including an interview of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Now Is the Time for All Good Men and Women to Come to the Aid of ‘South Park’.
Those who have no backbone will do the bidding of those who do.
Indeed.
To misquote that famous patriot, Thomas ibn Jeffers, perhaps people ought not live where customs allow behavior they find mortally offensive. Perhaps a Journey to the East might serve. Perhaps even a sojourn to a more Warm and Friendly Place.
The threats came from http://revolutionislam.com/
Someone hacked the site, and, at least at the moment, it shows a picture of an imam kissing a young boy (actual reason unknown, it’s likely not prurient in fact) and the background is the infamous bomb-turban-mohammed cartoon.
In addition, the “sister” site, “revolutionmuslim.org” was also hacked to redirect visitors to the site of jerusalem pulse radio.
Not everyone is as prepared to go silently into That Dark Night as the dhimmi of Comedy Central.
That’s good news, OBH