Report: TV's South Park targeted over depiction of Prophet Mohammed

[dayag]

I watched this episode. Every time they showed Muhammed, his image was either censored with a big black rectangle or he was inside a moving van and later a bear costume.



An Islamic website is targeting the creators of the television series South Park, after an episode that aired last week depicted the Prophet Mohammed disguised in a bear suit, CNN reported on Sunday.

The website, Revolutionmuslim.com, was the subject of a CNN investigation last year over its support for "jihad" or holy war against the West and for praising al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

According to CNN, the website posted an entry on Sunday that warned South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone that they will "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show," making a reference to Dutch filmmaker murdered by an Islamic extremist in 2004 after making film on Islam and violence against women.

The posting on Revolutionmuslim.com says: "We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them."...

The author of the post, Abu Talhah al Amrikee, told CNN that providing the addresses was not intended as a threat but as an opportunity to allow people to protest.

source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1164169.html

[NewsGuy]

Abu Talhah al Amrikee
I've noticed that American Jihadists now like to be known as "al Amrikee" (The American), in the same style as "al Baghdadi," "al Masri (The Egyptian)," etc.

To distinguish myself, I could be known as "NewsGuy al Los Angelesee," or maybe "al Yahud al Amrikee." Kinda catchy... :D

[redcake]

Redcake al Israel Forum reporting for duty.

[NewsGuy]

al bundee :cool:

[GratefulFred]

Too bad Matt & Trey didn't say it was an honor to be that infamous. Since they've goten a death threat they should've said they plan to depict Muhammed more vile to see if they could get a new death threat related to ending their lives after reincarnation.

[dayag]

Too bad Matt & Trey didn't say it was an honor to be that infamous. Since they've goten a death threat they should've said they plan to depict Muhammed more vile to see if they could get a new death threat related to ending their lives after reincarnation.

I've actually seen an episode of South Park where Muhammad was shown with the other Super Best Friends.

[bararallu]

Scion of Banu Qurayza right here.

Its impressive that essentially there is only one religion/people in the world you cant ridicule for arbitrary reasons in the entire free world.

[Kenneth]

South Park has a big posse it seems (more than poor old Theo alas).

Site hacked:

httx://www.revolutionislam.com/

(Change x to p in http)

[NewsGuy]

Article on how yet another American convert to Islam has made the news:

Road to Radicalism: The Man Behind the 'South Park' Threats (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/23/road-radicalism-man-south-park-threats/)

[andak01]

Scion of Banu Qurayza right here.

Its impressive that essentially there is only one religion/people in the world you cant ridicule for arbitrary reasons in the entire free world.

Maybe in America. In Europe, there are still laws against owning Mein Kampf.

[redcake]

Mein Kampf is "ridicule"?

Sensitivity isn't the reason it was banned. It's not out of fear it offends, but fear it inspires.

[andak01]

Mein Kampf is "ridicule"?

Sensitivity isn't the reason it was banned. It's not out of fear it offends, but fear it inspires.

Take a look at the websites where the Danish cartoons and the South Park episode ended up and you'll see some pretty inspired people. Having seen both, I'd judge South Park the less offensive of the two, since they were also having a go at every other religion (I didn't see the bear suit episode). But, to give you an analogy, it's like the difference between pissing on the Torah and crapping on the Torah. They're not doing us any favors. And neither does someone who acts criminally.

[dayag]

Take a look at the websites where the Danish cartoons and the South Park episode ended up and you'll see some pretty inspired people. Having seen both, I'd judge South Park the less offensive of the two, since they were also having a go at every other religion (I didn't see the bear suit episode). But, to give you an analogy, it's like the difference between pissing on the Torah and crapping on the Torah. They're not doing us any favors. And neither does someone who acts criminally.

South Park has never actually depicted Muhammad doing anything bad.
In an earlier South Park episode, they depicted Muhammad as a Super Best Friend fighting alongside Jesus, Lao Tsu, Buddha, Krishna, Joseph Smith, and Sea Man against a villainous David Blaine.

In this latest episode, it was thought that Muhammad was in a moving van and later in the bear suit, but it turned out to be Santa Claus. So actually Muhammad wasn't in the episode.

I don't think either of these depictions comes even close to urinating or deficating on the Torah.

South Park has depicted virtually everyone else in a degrading manner, so you guys are getting off extremely lightly. I would even say respectfully by South Park standards.

[redcake]

Mein Kampf was an ideological blueprint used to introduce the idea of ethnic cleansing, and justify it.

You're comparing that to satirical cartoon depictions of an Islamic religious figure? The purpose of Mein Kampf was not to poke fun. It was not presented in the form of cartoon.

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As for using the Torah as toilet paper....the equivalent would be using the Koran as toilet paper. You're not going to convince us that depicting Muhammed, Jesus, Moses or any other religious figures in a bear costume equates the physical desecration of scriptures. There have been actual instances of scriptures used for bathroom purposes in recent years, and Muslims didn't express 1% of the outrage, because it was other Muslims doing it, and the scriptures were Judaic.

[andak01]

Barrarallu: Its impressive that essentially there is only one religion/people in the world you cant ridicule for arbitrary reasons in the entire free world.

Andak: Maybe in America. In Europe, there are still laws against owning Mein Kampf.

That's what I said. I didn't compare Mein Kampf to South Park. I was responding to Barrarallu's false statement. Of course you can ridicule Islam. It's done ad nauseum everyday on our major news outlets and on religious channels. And in Europe at least, there are things that it is illegal to write about the Jews. So both the idea that Islam can't be ridiculed or that if that was true it would be unique are false.

[dayag]

Barrarallu: Its impressive that essentially there is only one religion/people in the world you cant ridicule for arbitrary reasons in the entire free world.

Andak: Maybe in America. In Europe, there are still laws against owning Mein Kampf.

That's what I said. I didn't compare Mein Kampf to South Park. I was responding to Barrarallu's false statement. Of course you can ridicule Islam. It's done ad nauseum everyday on our major news outlets and on religious channels. And in Europe at least, there are things that it is illegal to write about the Jews. So both the idea that Islam can't be ridiculed or that if that was true it would be unique are false.

There are limits to what can be said depending on the country. Geert Wilders is on trial in the Netherlands for remarks made about Islam and Muslims.

[Mediocrates]

Typically most civilized cultures have some kind of official protocol, process or jurisprudence to deal with this. It isn't usually left up to jeering mobs with gallows and firebombs nor is it the duty of random strangers to threaten death upon others.

[andak01]

Typically most civilized cultures have some kind of official protocol, process or jurisprudence to deal with this. It isn't usually left up to jeering mobs with gallows and firebombs nor is it the duty of random strangers to threaten death upon others.

I agree with you about the last part. That's criminal and should be accountable to the law.

I do think the media, though free, can show some discretion. For example, it's one thing for a neo-Nazi to have his own low-bandwidth website that hardly gets any hits. But for someone to take the contents of that and call it free speech to repeat it in a major media outlet is quite a bit different. That normalizes something that should be understood to be fringe by its context.

[squishyrob]

david blaine being attacked by any god/prophet/anything at all can only be seen as a good thing!