I have always like South Park it is a great show, always being funny, relevant to current political and social climate and always pushing the envelope. Nothing is safe from being poked at and made fun of. The thing is South Park doesn’t make fun of things/people in a childish way (well except maybe Tom Cruise) just to make fun of them, there is always a reason for it.
So nothing is safe, until now, at least that’s what Comedy Central thought.
Back in February I talked about the big deal made out of the Danish cartoons of Mohammed. Apparently the fear media companies feel in the US which did NOT start this ‘uproar’ has not gone away. And it appears that Comedy Central has been scared enough to ‘bury their heads in the sand’ so to speak. In the part two of the South Park episode Cartoon Wars, Mohammed was to appear for maybe 5 seconds. He was to hand a football helmet with a fish on it, say a couple words and leave. That’s it. Instead of seeing the 5 second clip with Mohammed, everyone saw this.
I am not sure if this is actually authentic, if not this is suppose to be pretty darn close of how the clip was suppose to look before Comedy Central lost their bawls.
Anyone deeply offended over that so much that you would go out and kill innocent people? Actually let me put it a different way. Is anyone that wouldn’t already kill innocent people because they are not Muslim offended so deeply that it would make you commit violence?
I think not.
I wonder if Comedy Central actually watched the episode or they just said no, since not allowing it made Comedy Central look really really bad for a couple reasons. One, the whole point of episode is to not let fear dictate what you say or show. Nowadays that’s called terrorism, in the old days that use to be a type of extortion or blackmail.
The second being the hypocrisy that is the big media in regards to Christianity. We can’t show any image of Mohammed, but we are allowed to show Jesus defecating (crapping) on people including the President as shown here.
Are some people offended? Sure, but is anyone going out to commit violence over that?
I think not.
So Comedy Central saved the day by not showing an image of Mohammed. Well the fact is they have already done so, and he was shown for much longer than 5 seconds. On July 4, 2001 Episode 504 The Super Best Friends.
Yeah it was before 9/11, but not showing Mohammed isn’t a new ‘rule’. It’s been around for a good while or so they say. So here you can watch it in its entirety. The episode Comedy Central forgot they already aired.
This makes me wonder, repeats are always shown on Comedy Central. Is this show banned from being repeated? It probably will be and apparently there are some other episodes that won’t be run again. As seen here it seems that Mohammed has been in every episode of season 10, wonder if that will change.
He is standing under Satan, hard to see in my pict. Here is a larger version of it.
South Park has been a cash cow for Comedy Central. As of last year South Park was Comedy Centrals #1 most watched show. I wonder if the censorship by Comedy Central would ever make the South Park creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone consider moving the show to a different network. You can let Comedy Central know what you think about this here.
More information about the South Park Mohammed situation can be found here, here, and the best info here.
This is a problem with the Muslim Mid Eastern culture vs everywhere else. This isn’t all Muslims in that region, just the radical ones, you know the ones force others to blow up the innocent. These seem to be the ones in power. Here like in most places (except China, North Korea and a couple others) we have freedoms to do and say for the most part what we want. Over there these things are not allowed. So how do we resolve this conflict? Choices seem to be either do as they say or not. If we do what they want we become less free and at some point become a Muslim state, since that IS what they want. If we don’t do as they say, then we would have to live with those consequences which does involve violence against the rest of us. This also leads to more choices. Do we just ignore them? Conquer them? Or maybe pull them along to becoming a free and open democracy? Even that choice leads to more choices on how to accomplish this. Some say this can’t be done. Their culture hasn’t evolved that far yet, they haven’t had a Magna Carta experience yet. Others point to the fact that people want to be free if they have the chance and it can be done. We are currently seeing this ‘experiment’ unfold in Iraq. Can this work with all the outside pressures determined to have it fail? For peace around the world for many future generations, I hope it succeeds.
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