Friday, April 23, 2010
South Park insults Muhammad and gets death threats
I've never been a fan of the TV show South Park. In fact, even if I watched much television it would generally be a show I'd tune out.
Nevertheless I am now compelled to post the above South Park cartoon of the prophet Muhammad because the show's producers have been threatened with death for putting the cartoon on air.
Apparently the group called, "Revolution Muslim" is based in New York and made the threat to murder producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone and posted on its website the work addresses of both men in New York and California. The threat also included graphic pictures of the body of Dutch film artist Theo van Gogh, who was murdered after making a movie that Muslim leaders didn't like.
Apparently these Islamicists don't understand the American psyche. There have been very few who have been quicker to condemn violence or threats against muslims than I have. But that condemnation is just as much valid in condemning muslims who make these kinds of threats against others. Americans may fight like cats and dogs on everything else but if you issue a death threat (against anyone,) especially over an issue of free speech then as Americans we all stand together.
CNN posted a piece by Arsalan Iftikhar an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and legal fellow for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington - that was spot-on on every point.
ReplyDelete"No-name radicals vs. 'South Park' just a distraction."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/26/iftikhar.south.park/