Matt and Trey Make a Statement [Update: Another future FF patsy EXPOSED!]

[RabidSheep]

South Park's 200th, litigious celebs and Mohammed: Matt Stone and Trey Parker (BB Video)

An interview just prior to the airing of episode 200.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp9bYLa5gaA&feature=player_embedded#!

[Dig]

What Matt and Trey did, was effecitvely to challange the status quo, opening a salvo agaisnt it.
The fact they have been slapped down like this and censored to high heaven, should wake people the hell up and rally people to their support.
Anything can be censored now, if they the establishment can come up with a reason, it will be censored.

I just wonder if the majority will yet again just accept things and am concerned the needed counter attack will not materialize.
People here have an alaraming tendancy to accept things, in fact several people i have spoken to have agreed with the censorship..

the msm have failed, the numbers are imploding faster than building 7 (23 minutes after the BBC reported it of course). This could catapult actual free media to another level. No longer is there any reason whatsoever for people to have 1984 mind control cable boxes in their homes.

To reiterate my stand on the matter...

Hey Sumner and Brzezinski's manufactured war on freedom...

F*ck you Dorrrrphin, F*ck you Whaaaaarrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[endof]

Well i hope your right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUoREHFwZGw

Hopefully many more in support of them will appear.

(if this one dosent get sqaushed by viacom within 2 minutes like the last one i saw..)

[ginge51]

Unbelievable.   You can't even SAY the name "Muhammad"?

One way to rage the muzzies.
I hope it is used a hell of alot more.

[Dig]

One way to rage the muzzies.
I hope it is used a hell of alot more.

IT IS FAKE, THAT IS THE POINT!

THIS IS ALL BS TO KEEP THE IDEA THAT MUSLIMS ARE KOOKS.

THE WEBSITE IS A CIA/MI6/MOSSAD FRAUD SITE!

FOR DECADES WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING A HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION OF IMAGINARIUM!

[Scootle]

Holy shit. Southparkstudios has even pulled the Super Best Friends episode. And its been taken off iTunes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_(South_Park)

Online availability
 
EpisodeSouth Park Studios' notice also conveyed that they did not have "network approval" to make "[their] original version" of the episode available on their website.[1] The studio traditionally makes unexpurgated versions of their episodes available for viewing on their website within days of an episode's broadcast premiere. Comedy Central would go on to confirm to the New York Times that "it was not giving permission for the episode to run on the studio’s Web site."[3]

Additionally, South Park Studios had previously made "Super Best Friends", a fifth-season episode featuring Muhammad's image, available for online viewing. After "201" aired, "Super Best Friends" was removed from the site, replaced with an apology that South Park Studios could no longer stream this episode."[4]

The "Super Best Friends" episode was available to watch Instantly Online on Netflix as recently as Thursday, April 22, 2010 however, as of Friday, April 23, 2010 the episode is only available "On Disk" meaning Netflix subscribers who wish to watch the episode will have to have Disk 1 of the Season Five DVD mailed to them.

As of Friday, April 23, 2010 the "Super Best Friends" "200", and "201" episodes of South Park are no longer being sold on iTunes nor on Amazon Video on Demand.

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This is totally insane.

[RabidSheep]

IT IS FAKE, THAT IS THE POINT!

THIS IS ALL BS TO KEEP THE IDEA THAT MUSLIMS ARE KOOKS.

THE WEBSITE IS A CIA/MI6/MOSSAD FRAUD SITE!

FOR DECADES WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING A HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION OF IMAGINARIUM!

I will agree, but there also many there that are now angry and seriously do want to harm non believers man. My friend Iqbal Haikal is currently there visiting family and providing school supplies and other aids to his families home town. I have many conversations about the fact they live in time 400 years old. Women have no rights, and civil liberties you can forget about it. They are not worried about dying to fight the infidel. There is a threat from Muslim extremist, but it is no where near the scale the government plays it out to be. The only Muslim extremist that are a threat to us may very well be in this country, these are not the ones backed by the fbi and cia. These are the Muslim extremist that say nothing and lay and wait for an opportunity.

[Scootle]

this is probably gonna be used to demonize the internet aswell since the threats were made online...

heres an ap report about the controversy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76s-ww7tbig

[Dig]

I will agree, but there also many there that are now angry and seriously do want to harm non believers man. My friend Iqbal Haikal is currently there visiting family and providing school supplies and other aids to his families home town. I have many conversations about the fact they live in time 400 years old. Women have no rights, and civil liberties you can forget about it. They are not worried about dying to fight the infidel. There is a threat from Muslim extremist, but it is no where near the scale the government plays it out to be. The only Muslim extremist that are a threat to us may very well be in this country, these are not the ones backed by the fbi and cia. These are the Muslim extremist that say nothing and lay and wait for an opportunity.

That is a deception and a Bilderberg lie propagated via Bilderberg media. On its face, it is a Bilderberg lie. Any actual extermists are recruited by the government. In foreign war torn lands this may be the case where the devestation and psyche cannot be evaluated from the overall population. Like in Gaza or parts of Afghanistan. Every person in the US is accounted for and Muslims doubly so. This "islamic-virus" theory by the way was used in 1920s  Germany with the jew-virus. It was used in Mao's china with the capitalist-virus. It was the same in 1600's to late 1900's America with the black-virus.


FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE MUSLIMS, BUT I WAS NOT MUSLIM SO I DID NOT SPEAK OUT.


If we do not learn from history we are destined to repeat it.

[endof]

this is probably gonna be used to demonize the internet aswell since the threats were made online...

heres an ap report about the controversy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76s-ww7tbig

Intersting how amazon and the rest now wont sell the episdoes with the banned material, nor will CC allow it to ever air again, the UK screening pulled, never to re air in the US?

Yes, i see them all move as one to impose the ban, first this, then something else, then something else, then something else.
Just wait.

[Dig]

If anyone is killed in some BS CIA-Kroll-CACI  Snuff film acting as if it is Al-CIA-duh...

NO NOT BELIEVE THEIR BULLSHIT!

DO NOT BE MANIPULATED WITH SHOCK AND AWE!

DO NOT LET THEM "NICK BERG" THE TRUTH!

WHO KILLED NICK BERG?

CACI, KROLL and the Beheading Industrial Complex
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=29069.0

[Dig]

'South Park' Mohammed issue sparks debate among Muslims
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/22/south-park-mohammed-issue-sparks-debate-among-muslims/?hpt=T2
09:46 AM ET

A message on the "South Park" website explaining why the second part of an episode involving Mohammed can't be streamed online yet.

It took seven minutes of a "South Park" episode to change a devout Muslim’s features from an entertained smile to complete disapproval. He told his colleague, Lebanese blogger Bilal el-Houri, as he walked away from the screening, “This is disgusting.”

What the young man (he prefers to remain anonymous) found disgusting was the depiction of Islam’s revered Prophet Mohammed as a bear mascot in "South Park’s" 200th episode. The depiction was the show authors’ sarcastic attempt to highlight media’s uneasy dealing with the father of Islam as not to offend Muslims who consider any depiction of their prophet as blasphemous.

Since his followers insist on him not being shown in any form, producers have always struggled with ways to include Mohammed in story lines without showing him. The most famous of those depictions is the classic Hollywood movie ‘The Message’ by Mustafa al-Akkad about the life of Prophet Mohammed. Being Muslim himself, al-Akkad directed his entire film with extreme sensitivity building the character of the prophet around the wind or the light so it’s a presence that is felt or experienced but not seen.

The "South Park" episode showing Mohammed disguised in a bear suit earned the show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker a jihadist campaign and a serious warning from a radical Islamic group based in New York City. The group posted on its website Revolutionmuslim.com a video filled with reminders of what fundamentalist Muslims did to those who in their eyes “insulted” their prophet.

On Wednesday night the episode continued the storyline of Mohammed in part II of the episode– but it aired with additional audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED." They also didn't have the episode streaming on their Web site. There was however, this message from the creators:

"After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show."

Comedy Central confirmed they added additional bleeps to the show than what was in the original cut. Whether the decision was an attempt to appeal to Muslims or to keep angry sentiment at bay, nobody knows, but tackling the issue of Mohammed in any way, beeps and censor marks included, still sparks concern among Muslims.

Blogger Bilal el-Houri is agnostic but he grew up in a Muslim family in the mostly Muslim region of the Middle East. He said, “My first thoughts on the episode were "haha!", but then I realized how deep and complicated this issue is.”

El-Houri said he was quickly reminded of tragedies that ensued from other infamous depictions of Prophet Mohammed. In particular he recalls the Muslim outrage in 2005 following publications of Cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. He said he witnessed in Beirut, Lebanon, crowds take to the streets and burn the building housing the Danish embassy.

“I remember seeing people crashing and burning police cars and ambulances that had nothing to do with Denmark or their cause.” He also recalled how “al Qaeda issued a call to murder Dutch politician Geert Wilders” for his film “Fitna” which was critical of Islam.

El-Houri observed that the "South Park" episode highlighted the fear from “barbaric Muslim retaliation” when a Muslim symbol is featured in the media. He said Muslims should focus on convincing others not to show iconic figure out of “respect to Islam” instead.

El-Houri’s advice to Muslims is to “appreciate free speech” and use its tools to debunk the misconceptions that exist around the world about Islam and showcase the peaceful side of their religion instead of reacting to what others publish or broadcast. “The media makes fun of Jesus, The Pope, politicians and so on, all the time, but you don't see Catholics burning tires outside Comedy Central's studios.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali agrees. The "South Park" episode “was not just funny, it wasn’t just witty” she said, but it also addressed what she called the essential issue that “one group of people, one religion, that is claiming to be above criticism, and I hope that in the aftermath of this, that we discuss that.”

Having been brought up as a Muslim, she said she grew up with the notion that one “shouldn’t criticize Allah, Islam or the Prophet” but she herself became a prominent critic of Islam. Her screenplay for Theo Van Gogh's movie ‘Submission’ brought her death threats. She had been living under protection since Van Gogh’s assassination of fear for her life. She describes the reaction to the depiction of Mohammed as “ridiculous” and thinks the solution lies in “scrutinizing Islam and criticizing it in the same way that we criticize Christianity, Judaism and other ideologies and other religions.”

"Equal opportunity scrutiny, equal opportunity offense," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

On "South Park’"s Facebook discussion boards, Muslims vented their frustration trying to explain why depicting their prophet is offensive and blamed South Park for fanning the tensions that already exist in the world around this subject. Under the title “Respect my Religion,” posts were mainly defensive. Most tried to expand on their belief that Islam is a religion of peace that respects other religions and prophets. Others blamed the extremists for “hijacking” their religion and using it to justify murdering and threatening people who don’t agree with them.

Muslim fans of "South Park" focused more on the episode which one of them thought was a “let down” in its redundancy of the old “controversial Prophet Mohammed depiction.”

Zainab Sher said, “2 b honest 200 episode wasnt funny at all to me!” She then added, “Bringing Mohammad back! when you know it is a sensitive issue […] seems to me southpark is running out of ideas!!! that angle just brought everything down.”

Omar Latif kept his comments simple, “DISAPPOINTED with showing our prophet.”

Ahmed Ata Saada said he had seen all "South Park" episodes and he found them “very fun.” But he found it “ridiculous” to make fun of other people’s beliefs and sacred religion. Many other Muslims joined in agreement while non-Muslims comments focused on the right to freedom of speech.

Part II of the 200th episode brought more of the same and the reaction does not seem to have picked up anywhere around the Muslim world yet. But the episode did seem to have a clear self-censorship which could have resulted from the warning. The reason for this could be a simple one. In every instance where violence ensued from published or broadcast material that offended Islam, the strong reaction was not immediate or spontaneous. It took time to build steam through video distribution in mosques and on the Internet, supported by clerics and religious leaders’ incitement during sermons and speeches.

It is true that hundreds and thousands took to the streets especially following the Danish cartoons controversy. Many of them protested violently burning buildings, cars and calling for the death of the cartoonist. But it is equally true that the majority of Muslims did not take to the streets and expressed their dismay rather peacefully or did not comment at all.

While millions around the world watched the violence in the streets of Islamabad, Cairo, and Beirut, there were many other Muslims who appeared on shows to condemn the violence committed in their name and under what they considered it to be the guise of defending Islam. They called for calm and talked about the peaceful nature of Islam instead.

Many mainstream Muslim clerics and devout Muslims have said repeatedly that the problem with the Muslim scripture, the Quran, is that it is vast, complex and appears at times to be contradictory. They attribute that to the belief that the verses are based on unique situations that occurred during the life of Prophet Mohammed but don’t apply to modern-day life.

It is a known fact that the Quran is open to interpretation; unlike other religions, Muslims don’t have a single entity to make a final call on certain issues. This leaves the door open to local clerics to issue Fatwas or religious edicts, based on their personal belief which could be ultra orthodox, moderate and many shades in between.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Bilal el-Houri, like many experts and scholars who speak up about this subject, put the responsibility in the hands of the majority moderate Muslims. Hirsi Ali points out that the Quran contains verses calling for the killing of non-believers. She said, “There are some people who want to act on it, and there are some people who don’t. The majority of Muslims do not want to act on the scripture, but they are silent when fellow Muslims do.”

Blogger Bilal el-Houri has seen both sides first hand in the Middle East. He says no matter how "cruel" the South Park episode is, “it should be a wake up call to Muslims around the world about how they are being portrayed, and instead of grunting and calling for boycotts and other actions, “they should begin by respecting free speech” and they should ask themselves, "why?"

Beside the intended humor in "South Park’s" 200th episodes I and II, there seems to be a message about the role of the world’s leading religions with a special emphasis on Islam’s state of affairs. Judging by the many bleeps censoring every time the word Mohammed was uttered and covering the entire “moral” of the episodes if one may call it that. It seems that the creators of South Park are sending the same message as Hirsi Ali and el-Houri; that open dialogue is the way to go.

In the midst of "South Park’s" many jokes and jabs, one can conclude that moderate Muslims can take away a message already articulated by many. By enforcing strict rules on depiction of their prophet, they allow the extremists to get all the attention. By doing so, they draw negative attention to their religion, alienate themselves and allow their message to be lost in censorship.

[Dig]

Why is this guy allowed to go on FOX NEWS?

Murdoch owns FOX and is a partner of the King of Saudi Arabia!

Evangelist chosen to lead Army prayer day says Muslims ‘enslaved by Islam’
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0422/evangelist-chosen-lead-army-prayer-day-muslims-enslaved-islam/
By John Byrne
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 -- 9:51 am

UPDATE: Evangelist Franklin Graham has confirmed that he has been disinvited by the US Army to serve as honorary chairman of a National Day of Prayer event, the Associated Press reports.

Earlier news reports had stated that this was the case, but confirmation only came Thursday afternoon when Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, issued a statement saying he regretted the Army's decision.

ORIGINAL STORY FOLLOWS BELOW

Editor's Note: CNN's Roland Martin reports, "The son of evangelist Billy Graham is removed as a speaker at a Pentagon event due to his remarks on Islam."

But the final decision seems to be an error since the CNN video contains no mention of one being made yet. RAW STORY regrets running with the CNN headline initially.

Fox News notes,

Army spokesman Gary Tallman told Fox News that Graham's "presence at the event may be taken by some as inappropriate for a government agency."

"As the executive agent of the Pentagon chaplain's office, Army leadership determined it needed further review," he said.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation raised the objection to the appearance, citing Graham's past remarks about Islam, in a letter sent Monday to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.


Army mulls disinviting evangelist after attacks on Islam surface, but church leader isn't backing down

The Christian evangelist invited to serve as honorary chairman of the Army's National Day of Prayer declined to walk back remarks accusing Islam of being a "wicked and evil" religion in an interview broadcast early Thursday.

Asked to clarify comments in which he called Islam "evil" after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, evangelist Franklin Graham said Thursday he still took issue with those adhering to the Muslim faith.

"I love the people of Islam but their religion, I do not agree with their religion at all," he said. He added that he was disturbed by the treatment of women under Islam.

"I speak out for people that live under Islam," he said, "that are enslaved by Islam and I want them to know that they can be free, free through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone."

Franklin Graham is the son of televangelist Billy Graham. He was invited by the Army to serve as an honorary chairman for Prayer Day, but the invitation is facing scrutiny after a watchdog group drew attention to his 2001 remarks. Following this pressure, Army Col. Tom Collins told the Associated Press Wednesday that withdrawing Graham's invitation "is on the table."

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation objected to the invitation, citing Graham's past comments about Islam.

Graham called Islam a "very evil and wicked religion" in the days after the 9/11 attacks. Later, he tried to temper his remarks by saying that Americans shouldn't "paint [Muslims] in a broad brush" since only a "small group of people" were responsible for flying airplanes into US sites.

On another occasion, the evangelist declared that "true" Islam involves abuse of women and labeled it a "very violent religion."

"We have many Muslims that live in this country," he said. "But true Islam cannot be practiced in this country. You can't beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they've committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries... I don't agree with the teachings of Islam and I find it to be a very violent religion."

This video is from Fox News Fox & Friends, broadcast April 22, 2010.

[Scootle]

found this on google... circulate it far and wide in protest lol


This is the sort of thing we need to do, we all need to make our own cartoons and drawings of mohammad.

This whole mohammad thing has pissed me off for years ... I remember back in 2005, when I was doing my A Levels, attending a school assembly and listening to the head teacher talking about the controversy surrounding the danish cartoons and other things and basically saying "perhaps freedom of speech isn't a good thing". At the time I agreed with the message, as did all my friends. Thinking back now I realise that it was perhaps the most blatant example of propaganda in my school.

[Dig]

found this on google... circulate it far and wide in protest lol


This is the sort of thing we need to do, we all need to make our own cartoons and drawings of mohammad.

This whole mohammad thing has pissed me off for years ... I remember back in 2005, when I was doing my A Levels, attending a school assembly and listening to the head teacher talking about the controversy surrounding the danish cartoons and other things and basically saying "perhaps freedom of speech isn't a good thing". At the time I agreed with the message, as did all my friends. Thinking back now I realise that it was perhaps the most blatant example of propaganda in my school.

sorry, but i disagree. south park was showing the absurdity about the western media's insanity while respecting the muslim faith. what the illuminazi PTB banksters want is for us to end up creating infighting. do not fall for it.

Just point out to everyone the absurdity of the "threat", where it came from. That the western media purposefully lied about the silly bear costume, he was not even in it. South Park went completely out of their way to show respect, yet expose the lies. this is what we all should strive to do. the illuminazi banksters have used our name and flag to exterminate over one million innocent brown women and children, we need to reachout and expose tyranny in the US and everywhere.

[RabidSheep]

found this on google... circulate it far and wide in protest lol


This is the sort of thing we need to do, we all need to make our own cartoons and drawings of mohammad.

This whole mohammad thing has pissed me off for years ... I remember back in 2005, when I was doing my A Levels, attending a school assembly and listening to the head teacher talking about the controversy surrounding the danish cartoons and other things and basically saying "perhaps freedom of speech isn't a good thing". At the time I agreed with the message, as did all my friends. Thinking back now I realise that it was perhaps the most blatant example of propaganda in my school.

I know all to well what you are talking about. You should hear Intels influence in my IT courses.

[Scootle]

Well no I of course don't mean be offensive. I'm not saying draw cartoons of him sucking someones dick or anything like that. What I mean is, if all these famous cartoonists had came out during the original controversy and drawn images of mohammad as a stance of freedom of speech then it would never have became a taboo in the first place. SP is being singled out as controversial for trying to show mohammad... but the only reason its controversial is because everyone else has given into the insanity. If the makers of the simpsons and family guy and all these other cartoons had kind of publically supported them and made a stand themselves then it wouldn't be controversial.

If we want to to end this insanity and this ludicrous double standard (you can depict buddha snorting coke and jesus looking at porn and crapping everwhere but you can't depict mohammad just standing there) then we need to try and make it normal again to be able to make cartoons of mohammad.

[Dig]

Well no I of course don't mean be offensive. I'm not saying draw cartoons of him sucking someones dick or anything like that. What I mean is, if all these famous cartoonists had came out during the original controversy and drawn images of mohammad as a stance of freedom of speech then it would never have became a taboo in the first place. SP is being singled out as controversial for trying to show mohammad... but the only reason its controversial is because everyone else has given into the insanity. If the makers of the simpsons and family guy and all these other cartoons had kind of publically supported them and made a stand themselves then it wouldn't be controversial.

If we want to to end this insanity and this ludicrous double standard (you can depict buddha snorting coke and jesus looking at porn and crapping everwhere but you can't depict mohammad just standing there) then we need to try and make it normal again to be able to make cartoons of mohammad.

if we want to end this insanity we need to expose the truth about 9/11, end genocides overseas, and confront supposed al-CIA-duh messaging stations perated by Bilderberg in NYC.

the illuminazi are the ones provoking, matt and trey did not fall for it, they were respectful and exposed the nonsense, so they got censored.

FOX can run 8 seasons of torturing muslims in 24, can have "experts" talking about the need to commit genocide against a race an they do not get censored. that needs to be highlighted rather than buying into their manufactured chess moves.

[RabidSheep]

if we want to end this insanity we need to expose the truth about 9/11, end genocides overseas, and confront supposed al-CIA-duh messaging stations perated by Bilderberg in NYC.

the illuminazi are the ones provoking, matt and trey did not fall for it, they were respectful and exposed the nonsense, so they got censored.

FOX can run 8 seasons of torturing muslims in 24, can have "experts" talking about the need to commit genocide against a race an they do not get censored. that needs to be highlighted rather than buying into their manufactured chess moves.

Well stated.

[Monkeypox]

'South Park' Mohammed issue sparks debate among Muslims
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/22/south-park-mohammed-issue-sparks-debate-among-muslims/?hpt=T2
09:46 AM ET

A message on the "South Park" website explaining why the second part of an episode involving Mohammed can't be streamed online yet.

It took seven minutes of a "South Park" episode to change a devout Muslim’s features from an entertained smile to complete disapproval. He told his colleague, Lebanese blogger Bilal el-Houri, as he walked away from the screening, “This is disgusting.”

What the young man (he prefers to remain anonymous) found disgusting was the depiction of Islam’s revered Prophet Mohammed as a bear mascot in "South Park’s" 200th episode. The depiction was the show authors’ sarcastic attempt to highlight media’s uneasy dealing with the father of Islam as not to offend Muslims who consider any depiction of their prophet as blasphemous.

Since his followers insist on him not being shown in any form, producers have always struggled with ways to include Mohammed in story lines without showing him. The most famous of those depictions is the classic Hollywood movie ‘The Message’ by Mustafa al-Akkad about the life of Prophet Mohammed. Being Muslim himself, al-Akkad directed his entire film with extreme sensitivity building the character of the prophet around the wind or the light so it’s a presence that is felt or experienced but not seen.

The "South Park" episode showing Mohammed disguised in a bear suit earned the show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker a jihadist campaign and a serious warning from a radical Islamic group based in New York City. The group posted on its website Revolutionmuslim.com a video filled with reminders of what fundamentalist Muslims did to those who in their eyes “insulted” their prophet.

On Wednesday night the episode continued the storyline of Mohammed in part II of the episode– but it aired with additional audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED." They also didn't have the episode streaming on their Web site. There was however, this message from the creators:

"After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show."

Comedy Central confirmed they added additional bleeps to the show than what was in the original cut. Whether the decision was an attempt to appeal to Muslims or to keep angry sentiment at bay, nobody knows, but tackling the issue of Mohammed in any way, beeps and censor marks included, still sparks concern among Muslims.

Blogger Bilal el-Houri is agnostic but he grew up in a Muslim family in the mostly Muslim region of the Middle East. He said, “My first thoughts on the episode were "haha!", but then I realized how deep and complicated this issue is.”

El-Houri said he was quickly reminded of tragedies that ensued from other infamous depictions of Prophet Mohammed. In particular he recalls the Muslim outrage in 2005 following publications of Cartoons of Prophet Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. He said he witnessed in Beirut, Lebanon, crowds take to the streets and burn the building housing the Danish embassy.

“I remember seeing people crashing and burning police cars and ambulances that had nothing to do with Denmark or their cause.” He also recalled how “al Qaeda issued a call to murder Dutch politician Geert Wilders” for his film “Fitna” which was critical of Islam.

El-Houri observed that the "South Park" episode highlighted the fear from “barbaric Muslim retaliation” when a Muslim symbol is featured in the media. He said Muslims should focus on convincing others not to show iconic figure out of “respect to Islam” instead.

El-Houri’s advice to Muslims is to “appreciate free speech” and use its tools to debunk the misconceptions that exist around the world about Islam and showcase the peaceful side of their religion instead of reacting to what others publish or broadcast. “The media makes fun of Jesus, The Pope, politicians and so on, all the time, but you don't see Catholics burning tires outside Comedy Central's studios.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali agrees. The "South Park" episode “was not just funny, it wasn’t just witty” she said, but it also addressed what she called the essential issue that “one group of people, one religion, that is claiming to be above criticism, and I hope that in the aftermath of this, that we discuss that.”

Having been brought up as a Muslim, she said she grew up with the notion that one “shouldn’t criticize Allah, Islam or the Prophet” but she herself became a prominent critic of Islam. Her screenplay for Theo Van Gogh's movie ‘Submission’ brought her death threats. She had been living under protection since Van Gogh’s assassination of fear for her life. She describes the reaction to the depiction of Mohammed as “ridiculous” and thinks the solution lies in “scrutinizing Islam and criticizing it in the same way that we criticize Christianity, Judaism and other ideologies and other religions.”

"Equal opportunity scrutiny, equal opportunity offense," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

On "South Park’"s Facebook discussion boards, Muslims vented their frustration trying to explain why depicting their prophet is offensive and blamed South Park for fanning the tensions that already exist in the world around this subject. Under the title “Respect my Religion,” posts were mainly defensive. Most tried to expand on their belief that Islam is a religion of peace that respects other religions and prophets. Others blamed the extremists for “hijacking” their religion and using it to justify murdering and threatening people who don’t agree with them.

Muslim fans of "South Park" focused more on the episode which one of them thought was a “let down” in its redundancy of the old “controversial Prophet Mohammed depiction.”

Zainab Sher said, “2 b honest 200 episode wasnt funny at all to me!” She then added, “Bringing Mohammad back! when you know it is a sensitive issue […] seems to me southpark is running out of ideas!!! that angle just brought everything down.”

Omar Latif kept his comments simple, “DISAPPOINTED with showing our prophet.”

Ahmed Ata Saada said he had seen all "South Park" episodes and he found them “very fun.” But he found it “ridiculous” to make fun of other people’s beliefs and sacred religion. Many other Muslims joined in agreement while non-Muslims comments focused on the right to freedom of speech.

Part II of the 200th episode brought more of the same and the reaction does not seem to have picked up anywhere around the Muslim world yet. But the episode did seem to have a clear self-censorship which could have resulted from the warning. The reason for this could be a simple one. In every instance where violence ensued from published or broadcast material that offended Islam, the strong reaction was not immediate or spontaneous. It took time to build steam through video distribution in mosques and on the Internet, supported by clerics and religious leaders’ incitement during sermons and speeches.

It is true that hundreds and thousands took to the streets especially following the Danish cartoons controversy. Many of them protested violently burning buildings, cars and calling for the death of the cartoonist. But it is equally true that the majority of Muslims did not take to the streets and expressed their dismay rather peacefully or did not comment at all.

While millions around the world watched the violence in the streets of Islamabad, Cairo, and Beirut, there were many other Muslims who appeared on shows to condemn the violence committed in their name and under what they considered it to be the guise of defending Islam. They called for calm and talked about the peaceful nature of Islam instead.

Many mainstream Muslim clerics and devout Muslims have said repeatedly that the problem with the Muslim scripture, the Quran, is that it is vast, complex and appears at times to be contradictory. They attribute that to the belief that the verses are based on unique situations that occurred during the life of Prophet Mohammed but don’t apply to modern-day life.

It is a known fact that the Quran is open to interpretation; unlike other religions, Muslims don’t have a single entity to make a final call on certain issues. This leaves the door open to local clerics to issue Fatwas or religious edicts, based on their personal belief which could be ultra orthodox, moderate and many shades in between.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Bilal el-Houri, like many experts and scholars who speak up about this subject, put the responsibility in the hands of the majority moderate Muslims. Hirsi Ali points out that the Quran contains verses calling for the killing of non-believers. She said, “There are some people who want to act on it, and there are some people who don’t. The majority of Muslims do not want to act on the scripture, but they are silent when fellow Muslims do.”

Blogger Bilal el-Houri has seen both sides first hand in the Middle East. He says no matter how "cruel" the South Park episode is, “it should be a wake up call to Muslims around the world about how they are being portrayed, and instead of grunting and calling for boycotts and other actions, “they should begin by respecting free speech” and they should ask themselves, "why?"

Beside the intended humor in "South Park’s" 200th episodes I and II, there seems to be a message about the role of the world’s leading religions with a special emphasis on Islam’s state of affairs. Judging by the many bleeps censoring every time the word Mohammed was uttered and covering the entire “moral” of the episodes if one may call it that. It seems that the creators of South Park are sending the same message as Hirsi Ali and el-Houri; that open dialogue is the way to go.

In the midst of "South Park’s" many jokes and jabs, one can conclude that moderate Muslims can take away a message already articulated by many. By enforcing strict rules on depiction of their prophet, they allow the extremists to get all the attention. By doing so, they draw negative attention to their religion, alienate themselves and allow their message to be lost in censorship.

Do none of these morons realize that it wasn't even Muhammad inside the (fake cartoon) bear costume?  It was Santa all along.

[Monkeypox]

Intersting how amazon and the rest now wont sell the episdoes with the banned material, nor will CC allow it to ever air again, the UK screening pulled, never to re air in the US?

Yes, i see them all move as one to impose the ban, first this, then something else, then something else, then something else.
Just wait.

Well, torrents of the episode are all over the 'net and this will only make people want to download it even more.

When will they learn that censorship doesn't work, especially now in the internet age?

[Dig]

Do none of these morons realize that it wasn't even Muhammad inside the (fake cartoon) bear costume?  It was Santa all along.

again these are the things we need  to expose. trey and matt have been blowing holes in the matrix for a long time. their 3 part special on imaginarium awakened so many an go god go blew apart the scientific technocracy agenda.

the illuminazis are pissed that their deceptions are coming undone and pushed their buddy sumner to pull the switch.

[sharpsteve]

Jon Stewart Stands Up For 'South Park,' Sings Another Round of 'Go F--k Yourselves' (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/jon-stewart-stands-up-for_n_549178.html

South Park Death Threats
Jon hesitates to repeat a phrase he's used before, but he has something to say to anyone threatening death in the name of religion or politics.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2010/south-park-death-threats

[Dig]

please do not hijack this thread into the agenda the illuminazis want it to be in.

[H0llyw00d]

C'mon Sane...All aboard the Imagination balloon....and sing the song for all!!
"Imagination, Imagination...Imaginatttttiooooon!!,,,,Imagination...Imaginatttttiooooon"

[Scootle]

Well right now, due to the UK election, its this south park song that basically sums up my feelings at the moment.

Douche and Turd
http://downloads.southparkstuff.com/sounds/epi808/808_getoutandvotesong.mp3

Let's get out and vote
Let's make our voices heard
We've been given the right to choose
between a douche and a turd

It's democracy in action
Put your freedom to the test
A big fat turd or a stupid douche,
which do you like best?

[Dig]

C'mon Sane...All aboard the Imagination balloon....and sing the song for all!!
"Imagination, Imagination...Imaginatttttiooooon!!,,,,Imagination...Imaginatttttiooooon"

Have you been up my wishing treeeeeee
It's where i come to think and dream
and now i'd like to show you my wishing treeeeeee
where we could laugh and giggle and scream (Heeeee heeee)
let your imagination run free
won't you imagine along with me
we can be space men or pirates on the sea
we could do everything and i mean everything up in my wishing treee
HEEEE HEEEEEE OOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Dig]

How come no one complained about this:

Announcer:   Hey, kids. Do you like Chinpokomon?
Boys:   Yeah!
Announcer:   Well then, you're gonna love… Alabama Man! ["ALABAMA MAN" over the Stars and Bars, then Alabama Man is shown with bowling ball and beer can]
Singer:   Alabama Man! He's quick, he's strong, he's happ'nin'
Announcer:   You can take Alabama Man to the bowling alley, where he drinks heavily and chews tobacco. [A little bowling alley is shown, with Alabama Man standing on a platform that connects to the alley by a ramp. Behind that sits a woman doll keeping score]
Boy 1:   [watching Alabama Man swing a bowling ball] Wow! He can bowl. [presses a button, releasing the bowling ball. It goes down the bowling alley and knocks six pins down]
Singer:   He can bowl, he can drink, he can drink and bowl. Alaba-ma Man.
Announcer:   When his wife asks him where he's been, just use the action button [Alabama Man is made to knock her down], and Alabama Man busts her lip open.
Boy 1:   [with Alabama Man. Boy 2 has his wife] Shut up, bitch! [has Alabama Man knock his wife down]
Boy 2:   Wow!
Singer:   He beat the wife and sleeps it off. Alabama Man!
Boys 1 & 2:   I wanna be just like Alabama man.
Announcer:   Alabama Man comes with everything you see here. Wife sold separately.
Boy 2:   I thought I told you to shut up! [has Alabama Man knock his wife down with a backhand]
Announcer:   Not all people from Alabama are wife-beaters. [Again, the boys stay silent]

[Mr Grinch]

Bwahahahahah! I just watched it all the way through, I nearly pissed myself laughing at..



I need a picture of dude getting laughed at by the "Superfriends".

I mean seriously Seaman and Swallow.... 

PS

[Dig]

Remember the "send a dollar to afghan kids" psyops? well sp did a show about it where they sent a buck and afghan kids sent them a goat. they flew to afghanistan to give back the goat, here is the dialog...

http://www.southparkstuff.com/season_5/episode_509/epi509script/
[The home of the Afghan boys. The taxi pulls up and drops the South Park boys off, then goes away. The boys approach the door]
Kyle:   Is this the right house?
Stan:   I think so. [steps up and knocks on the door]
Akmarh:   [approaches and opens the door] Shomot chizimi frushi?
Stan:   A-ah, hi. We're from America. [Akmarh simply looks back] Uh, we sent you the dollar? Uh, the four dollars? Yu, you sent us this goat?
Akmarh:   Goat? [the other Afghan boys show up behind Akmarh]
Goat:   Ma-a-a-a-a.
Stan:   Here. Wu-we don't want it.
Akmarh:   Oh, you want something alse? All we had was the goat. Your country bombed everything else.
Stan:   No, dude, we're n- we're not ungrateful. It's just... none of us can keep the goat
Cartman:   It was choking on the sweet air of freedom in America, so we brought it back to your crappy country. [the Afghan boys are insulted]
Stan:   Oh uh, and here. [pulls out a small flag] Take this American flag as... a gift. [hands it to Akmarh and backs up. Akmarh considers the gift for a few moments, then throws it on the ground and steps back. The fat kid moves up and pours some fuel on it, then the poor kid strikes a match and throws it on the fuel, setting the flag on fire.]
Afghan Boys:   Yaaay. [they jump up and down]
Kyle:   Hey! What the hell are you doing?!
Stan:   Yeah, they told us in school that everyone but terrorists love America.
Fat Boy:   Huh! [says a few more things]
Cartman:   What did you call us?!
Akmarh:   Your country is the evil empire! Your government wants to rule the world! But your values and your spirituality are in the guh-ter!
Kyle:   Then why did you send us the goat?
Boy in Blue Vest:   Because, in Afghanistan, we have pride. If you send us something, we must send something in return.
Akmarh:   It doesn't mean we don't still hate you. Now, get out of here! [the Afghan boys back up and Akmarh shuts the door]


but the illuminazi psyops controllers fabricate trey and matt's perspective saying they disrespected middle eastern people or muslim people. it is total bs.

[Monkeypox]

Bwahahahahah! I just watched it all the way through, I nearly pissed myself laughing at..



I need a picture of dude getting laughed at by the "Superfriends".

I mean seriously Seaman and Swallow.... 

"Swallow, come!"

 

[freeyrmind]

Road to Radicalism: The Man Behind the 'South Park' Threats

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/23/road-radicalism-man-south-park-threats/

By all appearances, Zachary Adam Chesser was the boy next door. He played football and was on the crew team at one of the best high schools in the country. He even studied Japanese. He was hardly the sort of boy you'd expect would suggest on a radical Islamic website that the creators of the edgy cartoon series "South Park" will be targeted for death.

But Chesser also had a dark side. He was a "loner," a former classmate said, one who frequently drew pictures of Satanic figures in his notebooks and had just a few friends, most of them male.

"He was definitely sort of weird," the classmate told FoxNews.com. "He was very into violent industrial music, borderline Satanic bands and stuff like that. He had dark undertones in his interests."

Two years later, Chesser is literally a changed man. He now uses an alias and has a new set of hobbies. He now likes to be called Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, and his primary interest in this world appears to be Islamic radicalism.






well i guess now if you are a white male that listens to industrial music and is a loner you are now an islamic al-CIA-da.
talk amongst yourselves.

[RabidSheep]

"Swallow, come!"

 

"I can't believe he just said that!"

[H0llyw00d]

Alabama Man!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_CgYHM05k

[Monkeypox]

"I can't believe he just said that!"

[endof]

"Super Best Friends" is episode 68 of the Comedy Central series South Park, aired on July 4, 2001. Following controversy over the episode "201", as of April 22, 2010 the South Park Studios website no longer streams "Super Best Friends". The episode is replaced on the website with the notice: "We apologize that South Park Studios cannot stream this episode."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends

[Dig]

Road to Radicalism: The Man Behind the 'South Park' Threats

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/23/road-radicalism-man-south-park-threats/

By all appearances, Zachary Adam Chesser was the boy next door. He played football and was on the crew team at one of the best high schools in the country. He even studied Japanese. He was hardly the sort of boy you'd expect would suggest on a radical Islamic website that the creators of the edgy cartoon series "South Park" will be targeted for death.

But Chesser also had a dark side. He was a "loner," a former classmate said, one who frequently drew pictures of Satanic figures in his notebooks and had just a few friends, most of them male.

"He was definitely sort of weird," the classmate told FoxNews.com. "He was very into violent industrial music, borderline Satanic bands and stuff like that. He had dark undertones in his interests."

Two years later, Chesser is literally a changed man. He now uses an alias and has a new set of hobbies. He now likes to be called Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, and his primary interest in this world appears to be Islamic radicalism.






well i guess now if you are a white male that listens to industrial music and is a loner you are now an islamic al-CIA-da.
talk amongst yourselves.

WAIT A MINUTE...

THIS IS NOT SOME SHEIK WITH ONE EYE OR SOMETHING?

THIS IS WHY SUMNER REDSTONE DROPPED THE HAMMER?

HOW IS THIS NOT STAGED?

THIS GUY IS CLASSIC PATSY FOR PSYOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Monkeypox]

"Super Best Friends" is episode 68 of the Comedy Central series South Park, aired on July 4, 2001. Following controversy over the episode "201", as of April 22, 2010 the South Park Studios website no longer streams "Super Best Friends". The episode is replaced on the website with the notice: "We apologize that South Park Studios cannot stream this episode."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends

So an episode that has been broadcast many times and has been available for online viewing for YEARS without problems must now be removed?

Just like 1984:  throw it down the "memory hole".

[citizenx]

Even before they replaced the now dead bin Laden with the fellow with the braod nose, he was a CIA asset and family friend of the Bushes.

Here's another name to look into: Fuad el-Hibri.  Connections to Bushes and bin Laden family.  German born Lebanese-Arab.  Naturalized after he purchased a defense company.  Produces Anthrax vaccines.  Purchased in 1998.  Worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and Citigroup.

Icke writes about him.  I forget which book.

[Dig]

Total setup confirmed by the muslim community. The kid is probably the grandson of Abe Foxaman. Trey and Matt stuck to their guns to expose an illuminazi deception weapon which still has power over us and Sumner said "NO, YOU WILL NEVER EXPOSE OUR TRICKS AND SORCERY!", nothing to see move along...



Threat against ‘South Park’ creators highlights dilemma for media companies
http://mobile.chicagotribune.com/inf/infomo?view=page1&feed:a=chi_trib_10min&feed:c=entertainment&feed:i=53435787&nopaging=1
Fri 23 Apr 2010
By Scott Collins and Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times

In its 200 shows, the irreverent animated program "South Park" has mercilessly satirized Christianity, Buddhism, Scientology, the blind and disabled, gay people, Hollywood celebrities and politicians of all persuasions, weathering the resulting protests and threats of boycotts.

FOR THE RECORD: Threat to "South Park" creators: An article in Friday's Section A about the Comedy Central network's response to an online threat by radical Muslims made against "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said a clip of an interview with Parker and Stone was posted on the website boingboing.com. The website's correct address is boingboing.net.


But this week, after an ominous threat from a radical Muslim website, the network that airs the program bleeped out all references to the prophet Muhammad in the second of two episodes set to feature the holy figure dressed in a bear costume. The incident provides the latest example that media conglomerates are still struggling to balance free speech with safety concerns and religious sensitivities, six years after Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was slain for making a film critical of Islamic society.

Comedy Central declined to comment on the latest incident. But "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone clearly disagreed with their bosses' handling of the situation. A statement posted on their website said that executives "made a determination to alter the episode" without their approval and that the usual wrap-up speech from one character didn't mention Muhammad "but it got bleeped too."

The network may have thought it had no choice after revolutionmuslim.com, the website of a fringe group, delivered a grim warning about last week's episode, which depicted Muhammad dressed as a bear.

"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," the posting said. A photo of Van Gogh's body lying in the street was included with the original posting, which has been unavailable to some Web users since news of the item broke earlier this week. "This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them."

Experts say that in trying to forestall such threats, media companies may be setting dangerous precedents — a possibility underscored by the fact that "South Park" has strirred up a free-speech issue that, while dormant for years, has now exploded anew.

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh said that although he sympathizes with the predicament faced by Comedy Central, the network has potentially empowered other extremists by how it has chosen to handle the situation.

"The consequence of this position is that the thugs win and people have more incentive to be thugs," said Volokh, who teaches free speech and religious freedom law. "There are lots of people out there who would very much like to get certain kind of material removed, whether religious or political. The more they see others winning, the more they will be likely to do the same. Behavior that gets rewarded gets repeated."

In 2005, an uproar over Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper rocked Europe and the media industry worldwide, with many newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, declining to publish the materials that some found offensive. One of the cartoons showed the prophet wearing a bomb as a turban that was about to explode. Many Muslims believe that Islamic teachings forbid showing images of Muhammad.

Revolution Muslim, the extremist group that issued the graphic warning, is a relatively small fringe organization based out of New York, said Oren Segal, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.

The organization, which formed in 2007 and includes about a dozen members, is mostly known for posting inflammatory and often threatening comments on its website, including a poem last October during the Jewish High Holy Days asking God to kill all the Jews. Its members also stage protests in front of New York mosques, advocating a more fundamentalist form of Islam.

The FBI was aware of the matter, but declined to comment.

The irony is that some of the group's postings could be construed as hate speech and therefore raise their own free-speech issues.

"This group definitely crosses the line, or is right on the line, in terms of what is acceptable speech," Segal said. "There is no direct link between this group and violence yet. But by posting this type of information, you never know who is going to take it seriously."

The ADL has identified Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, the blogger who posted the warning about "South Park," as Zachary A. Chesser, a former student at George Mason University who lives in Virginia and has become more active with Revolution Muslim in the last several months.

On April 15, he wrote on one of his Twitter accounts: "May Allah kill Matt Stone and Trey Parker and burn them in Hell for all eternity. They insult our prophets Muhammad, Jesus, and Moses."

Later, he posted a clip from an interview of Stone and Parker with the website boingboing.com, in which the host asked if they feared that they would be bombed for showing a depiction of the prophet Muhammad on their show.

Al-Amrikee noted: "Perhaps they are not, perhaps they should be, only time will tell."

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based civil rights and advocacy group, called Revolution Muslim "an extreme fringe group that has absolutely no credibility within the Muslim community.

"In fact, most Muslims suspect they were set up only to make Muslims look bad," Hooper said. "We just have very deep suspicions. They say such outrageous, irresponsible things that it almost seems like they're doing it to smear Islam."

He said he was aware of the recent depiction on "South Park" of Muhammad in a bear suit, but said CAIR has not issued any formal statement about the incident because the group doesn't want to give the show any more attention.

"People are pretty tired of this whole ‘Let's insult the prophet Muhammad thing,'" he said.

Segal said that although he does not expect the warning by Revolution Muslim to stir the kind of mass protests that followed the Danish cartoon controversy, he said the group's rhetoric must be taken seriously.

"You don't know what crazy person is going to respond," he said. "This is in context of a relatively silly, funny show, but a threat is a threat."

For fans of "South Park," the controversy has a familiar air. The show has taken great relish in attacking anyone the creators deem ridiculous or self-important, with celebrities and religion serving as favorite targets. In 2006, longtime cast member Isaac Hayes quit after the series lampooned Scientology.

A group of New Zealand bishops was so offended by the show's depiction of the Virgin Mary that it sought unsuccessfully to have the program banned. But "South Park" has run into more serious problems when making light of Islamic strictures against showing Muhammad.

In 2006, Comedy Central censored the producers' plans to depict the prophet in the episodes known as "Cartoon Wars."

Co-creator Stone, in an interview with boingboing.com, chided his employers in that case. "It's just sad," he said.

He also noted that paradoxically, the network continued to run an episode from an earlier season in which Muhammad is not only shown but speaks, along with Jesus of Nazareth, Buddha and other religious figures. "It was before the Danish cartoon controversy, so it somehow is fine," Stone said. "After that," he said, network self-censorship was "the new normal."