Islamic group gives warning to South Park creators for 200th episode...

Which you're not, so I can't help but feel that you're taking the side of Comedy Central just because you don't want to take the side of South Park and/or Matt & Trey. :sad:
 
You didn't see me throw a fit when FOX refused to air the Family Guy abortion episode, did you? If there's one thing about SP that I still support it's the freedom to tackle targets that deserve to be knocked down a peg, despite the fact that I do feel that it's all they do these days. I support their right to do so. But I don't support this, for reasons I've already stated.
 
Frankly, EVERYONE is in the wrong here.

First of all, as far as Islam goes, it's blasphemous to show Muhammad. Not good at all. (Admittantly, for specifics reason [they didn't want Muslims worshipping him like the Christians did Christ, instead, focusing on Allah], but still). Matt and Trey KNEW THIS and INTENTIONALLY stirred the pot. They said - alright, you guys don't like this. We're going to do a WHOLE EPISODE about it just to piss you all off. Because we make South Park, and we can.

Now, yeah, that's South Park's thing. They offend and poke and prod, and it's funny. Hilarious, really. But intentionally offending a group for the sake of offending is a jerk move.

Of course, this doesn't give Muslim groups the right to threaten harm to ANYONE. They're welcome to protest and boycott, but violence is, y'know, not good. So, I don't think they're in the wrong as much as they went too far.

And as for censorship - censoring things to protect your cast, crew, and employees is a GOOD THING. Given the choice between putting people at risk and bleeping a few words, I'd bleep things a hundred times. But censoring ideas is not okay. So, they should have chilled out on the ending there.

So EVERYONE here is being a jerk. But none of them are TRYING to be jerks. They're just taking things to extremes. That's how it looks to me.
 
Once again, Trey and Matt prove a point with regards to the shallow and murderous nature of people who can't take a joke.

And for the guys who brought up the Mohammed pictures from SP. If you're gonna do that, I'll raise it up to this:

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that's more like it.
 
The fact that South Park depicted Buddha snorting cocaine in two straight episodes on its own, exposes how bogus of a double standard there is when it comes to satirizing religious figures/prophets.
 
^I wish I had been able to say it that well because this i exactly how I feel.

I will reiterate one last time as far as South Park and religion goes: it's one thing to have a strong opinion of varying religions. South Park has done that for years, going all the way back to the beginning. It's another thing to do something outright blasphemous that can potentially and easily offend an entire group of people.
 
...Wow.

I'm not a fan of South Park at all, but this is kinda ridiculous. First Sarah Palin with Family Guy (or was it South Park also? I can't remember...) and now this.:sweat: Word of advice to the terrorists: if you don't like it, then don't watch it. It's not that hard... that's what I do with SP and FG, amoung other shows that I don't like. I just don't watch 'em, because I'm fully aware that the content in those shows are stuff that I don't wanna see or hear.
 
That's idiotic, making fun of some body's religion while perhaps tasteless and crass isn't anywhere on par with making threats against some one's life. That's like saying "sure Dave beat John to death with a crowbar but John let his dog poop on Dave's lawn".

Whether or not it's offensive is irrelevant, there's plenty of people out there with ideas and opinions I find offensive but I don't go around threatening to blow them up. On any given day they we're all likely to be exposed to things we find offensive, a fellow motorist might flip us the bird on the way to work, we might overhear a racist joke in the bar. These things are unpleasant but they're the unavoidable price we pay for living in a functional democracy.

Most people in such situations have the maturity to voice their distaste without resorting to violence. There are of course those few who are incapable of such restraint, which is why society has created various institutions designed to contain such individuals and their destructive impulses.
 
This wasn't about making fun of someone's religion. This was about depicting Mohammad, which Muslims find outright blasphemous. There's a difference here.
 
I don't want to get politically nitpicky, but be careful to not criticize wholesale an entire religious group because of the comments of a few crazy fundamentalists.

I always wonder why threads like this get so big. You would think by now we'd be able to ignore the nuts and react only when things are serious. I can't count the amount of times extremist Christians toss off offensive comments about anyone and everyone, but of course nobody takes them seriously.

That should also be the case here for these Islamic fundamentalists.
 
That advice never works with people like that. These people have an attitude that is "If I don't like it, then you don't watch it." They can't be reasoned with or appeased, only opposed or ignored.
 
On South Park studios site, the episode Super Best Friends (which started the entire Muhammand thing) got took down from the streaming of the old episodes. While the Cartoon Wars 2 parter is still up on it.
 
Muhammad is SPECIFICALLY FORBIDDEN to be depicted. I mean, yeah, there's "honor God" and such in Christianity (and I assume Buddhism), but showing Muhammad is DIRECTLY against Islamic teachings. In the making of this episode, they knew this, and intentionally choose to show Muhammad.

I mean, it's pretty much spitting in the face of the religion. They made a specific point of doing it. I'm all for free speech, but I don't think it gives you the right to be an ass.

Of course, like I said, this doesn't make threatening them okay. That's also very bad. But, it's like... you're insulting someone, and they punch you in the face. Sure, he shouldn't have punched you in the face, but maybe you shouldn't have insulted them in the first place. There's a lot of blame to go around.
 
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