For those of you who haven't heard, there is a good amount of controversy over the last two episodes of South Park and their use of the prophet Muhamed as a character.
If you don't know the details i won't go into it here but HERE is a good article explaining most of what you need to know. The short version is that some extremist groups issued threats against Trey Parker & Matt Stone and Comedy Central has since been editing and censoring South Park episodes to avoid angering the groups further.
As of now neither of the last two episodes are in re-runs or even available online at southparkstudios.com and I just noticed that they had also pulled the older episode "Super Best Friends," from streaming on the site, which depicted Muhamed without being censored before the situation became taboo.
So, what do you think? Should Parker and Stone be allowed their rights to creative expression, or should they willingly censor themselves to cater to the threats of some of these groups?
*Please note any outright hate speech in response will be removed. I will accept any opinion if it is well formed and stated, but I don't want to open a forum for hate speech.*
BasV
If this gets pulled, then they might as well pull it all. Each south park episode will anger someone somewhere. This whole muhammed thing is rediculous. At the very beginning when that danish cartoonist made a cartoon and the extremists threatened him, everyone should have gone and make muhammed cartoons. That way, we would have all said - fuck you, here, we can show muhammed cartoons, and if you don't like it, don't read our newspapers!
What we're all doing now - meeting their demands by not showing images, is letting them win. We're negotiating with terrorists and you shouldn't do that.
Maybe the worst part of the whole extremist thing here is that most people actually hate muslims and the muslim faith for it. Those extremists are just creating hate against their own religion.
sirjeffofshort
That seems to be the argument of the south park guys as well, if you make one thing off limits there could be no end. It's hard to say what the best way to go about it would be, but it certainly is an interesting thought to think of the world standing together agains such extremist groups.
Most people in the muslim faith even recognize how bad these groups make them look and try their best to distance themselves.