South Park Censored for Safety

Comedy Central censored there Wednesday’s (April 21) episode, which was a continuation of last week's, and it was a depiction of Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit.

South Park was given a warning from a radical Muslim website, revolutionmuslim.com. Comedy Central confirmed to FoxNews.com it censored the show, and the episode was not available on the website either.
Abu Talhah al Amrikee, the author of the post, said he wrote the entry to raise awareness.

The posting included “the 200th episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park, which included a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit. The web posting also included a graphic photo of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered in 2004 after making a documentary on violence against Muslim women.” Amrikee said the photograph of van Gogh was meant to “explain the severity” of what Parker and Stone did by mocking Muhammad.

“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 read. "This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”

"It's not a threat, but it really is a likely outcome. They're going to be basically on a list in the back of the minds of a large number of Muslims. It's just the reality."

Jon Stewart commented on the incident on his show yesterday, Thursday 22. According to The Examiner, Stewart’s show “and others have made a common practice of ridiculing nearly every major religion and belief systems. Yet, it seems the network felt the need to censor in this case over concerns of violence.”

Stewart claimed, “the censorship was a decision Comedy Central made, I think, as a way to protect our employees from what they believe was any possible harmful repercussions to them.”

He went on to criticize “the group that posted the threat on its Web site, saying your type of hatred and intolerance, that's the enemy.”

Is there anything wrong with this picture? Clearly, according to the information given above, there was no threat given on the part of any group. But a warning by an individual. An individual whose name originally was Zachary Adam Chesser. According to an article in FOX News, Chesser seemed somewhat disturbing to some of his classmates. Years later in college, he converted to Islam. So this means, Chesser, as the article claims, had some troubling traits since he was in high school. His “disturbing” attitude was not created when he converted; rather, it was there all the time. So, there is something clearly wrong with this picture. What if Chesser never converted to Islam, would the story seem different? The articles about the censorship on Comedy Central, declare that the post was not a threat, but a warning. A warning to what might happen to Parker and Stone. Take this for example, during the Civil Rights movement; no doubt, there was racism in America. So much cruelty there was towards Blacks in this country for many years. What would have happened if they were fearful of protesting? Would the Civil Rights movement have happened? Indeed, they were threatened on and before the Civil Rights movement. Anything could have happened to them. Should our freedom of speech be threatened by what we fear is going to happen? Clearly, Comedy Central pokes fun at many faiths, but is that even right? Does that not only continue the racism, stereotyping, and bigotry in this country?
So how do we determine who is right in this case?
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