“South Park” Prophet Mohammad Episode “CENSORED” After Threats From Radical Muslim Group
Has South Park gone too far this time?
Producers of the irreverant Comedy Central series South Park beeped out the words Prophet Muhammad and plastered its Wednesday episode with the word “CENSORED” after being issued a grim warning by a radical New York-based Muslim group this week.
In a description of last night’s episode, the network wrote: “South Park is in danger from angry celebrities, violent Ginger kids and Mecha Streisand in an all-new episode titled ’201,’ premiering on Wednesday, April 21 at 10PM on Comedy Central. It’s a tense situation in South Park as Muhammad has become the pawn in the game to save the town. The Ginger kids are threatening to destroy the city if Stan and Kyle don’t hand over the Prophet and the celebrities have met violence with violence by unleashing Mecha Streisand.”
Revolutionmuslim.com criticized the show for including a satirical discussion on whether an image of the Prophet Mohammed could be shown, and a posting on the website now warns South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone that their flippancy could make them the targets of violent attacks.
“We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably end up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show,” the message read, referring to a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered after making a film about violence against women in some Islamic societies. “This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”
The website warning followed the first in a two-part episode of South Park (entitled “201″) a week ago in which Prophet Mohammad was depicted in a bear outfit. The statement posted the address of South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Los Angeles production studio, however a spokesman for the group denied the statement was a threat against the animators.
“Revolution Muslim only wants those offended to be able to voice their opposition by letters to the show’s creators,” a spokesman told CNN Wednesday.
Written by Castina on April 22nd, 2010 | Tagged as: South Park
On April 22nd 2010, rais wrote:
Western countries reeeeeeally need to stop putting up with crap from these stupid extremist groups. They should not have to censor a silly tv show because extremist groups like this, which have no place in western society, get their panties in a knot. And why is anyone even debating whether or not they were threatening the creators… they obviously were. Seems to me like they have laws against uttering threats for a reason… perhaps law enforcement should make an example of these people…
On April 24th 2010, yep wrote:
Honestly why Make fun of Religion or Prophets?
On April 25th 2010, twitter blurp wrote:
Some heavy entries by augustus emperor at:
http://www.movieline.com/2010/04/south-park-creat…
Did this guy stop the discussion or what?
M.O
On April 28th 2010, Freeman wrote:
1. All religions were sent up in that episode but only Islam “the religion of peace” threatened them with violence.
2. The threat of violence should have been treated as terrorism and the producers of the Islamic website should have been arrested and sent to Guantanamo for good.
3. Islams answer to everything is to be violent. It demonstrates how fragile their ridiculous beliefs are that they feel so threatened at every turn. Of course this is all rubbish and part of the current trend to Islamize the western world.
4. This is the 21st century and its about time we put a stop to all the rubbish about Mohammad and this primitive disgraceful religion. In fact 9/11 should have been the last day of Islam.
5. While we are on the subject we really need to put to rest all religions. No one knows how the universe was created or what happens after death and thats ok, but stop making up stories and killing people who disagree.
6. To every western, politically correct idiot and appeasement junky out there….keep doing what you are doing and we will all end up paying the price.
7. Someone give the president a copy of the SUN TZU.
On June 28th 2010, anonymous wrote:
u can see your gods and prophet as an entertainment figure or rather say an amusement tool but we can’t….. we have guts to speak what’s wrong not simply accepting what some dickheads throw on us like u sick people do…… islam never support Violence if u really need to know what islam is then read original scripture use ur own head not listen to what others say………….. despite of so much criticism of islam it is the fastest growing religion in the world
On August 26th 2010, Not a big deal wrote:
There are shows depicting jesus all the time. Even south park had numerous episodes with jesus in it. And he was shooting someone! Christians probably did get offended but it was obviously not that big of a deal if they’ve shown jesus in more episodes.
My point is if one religon can be the but of jokes so can all of them.
I love south park. There is a bitter honestly in each and every episode that is presented in a funny way.