Comedy Central submits to Islamic intimidation -- now South Park cannot even say the word "Muhammad"

Brave Comedy Central, like all media, afraid to critique Islam and Mohammad, or their superstitious and violent practices? This raises to a higher level those cartoonists who did have the courage. Craven media, strutting with sarcasm on all social commentary... except Islam.

What do you expect? Bravery from the likes of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? Frankly, what's amazing is the insanity and hypocrisy inherent in Islam are such a vast comedy gold mine to the point where you'd have lots of comedians mining Islam for comedy. Then again, the entire death sentence for those who insult Islam and Mo. put a damper on satire and mockery. Still, Pat Condell comes closest to what all of us free men and women should be doing, IMO.

IMO this was clearly encouraging violence - a death threat in fact - with the picture of butchered van Gogh and talk of terrorizing. The Koran doesn't mean to terrorize the infidel with finger wagging. If the local authorities had any spine they would arrest the website owners and let a grand jury decide whether or not to put them on trial - not so sure they wouldn't. It would be infidels using the law to deter Muslim intimidation for a change. Right now Muslims laugh at us & our weakness. That needs to change.

Sheesh!! How annoying. So, chalk up one for the complainers, again.

I have no doubt though, that South Park will get around this somehow. They could even make the bear a regular character, give him a nice name like Baremo, Baremad, Pedobear, you get the drift.

This is a sad, sad day for free speech. It is sad to see Comedy Central bow down as dhimmis to the crazy "faith" known as Islam and Sharia law. When will the festering plague known as Islam end?

I hope that Matt and Trey find a way to put up the episode elsewhere, Comedy Central needs to have more backbone. And people call Islam the "Religion of Peace", what a bunch of bull crap. Where is the outrage for showing Buddha doing coke? Where are the death threats from Christians out there for making fun of Jesus? Why aren't the Mormons going door to door and blowing themselves up in the infidels faces? Why aren't all the Hindus beheading people who insult Krishna?

Truly, there is one thing that really seperates Islam from these other religions, and that is the Koran's complete and utter saturation with violence, violence against anyone and everyone who stands against Islam. The West needs to wake up and stop its spread before we are all under the rule of Sharia. I would like to keep my head on my shoulders, not rolling around on the ground thank you.

The 6th Pillar of Islam is the most effective censorship method in world history. It represents the best form of censorship: self-censorship.

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From what I've seen, South Park is the only non-globo-socialist program Comedy Channel has ever run.

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Although it is true that Moslems lend themselves to satire better than any group ever, it is wise to exempt Moslems cuz to make deserved fun of them forces you to live under armed security, and could very well get you killed.

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I'm sure the FBI is vigorously investigating the persons behind the RevolutionIslam.com website. We can expect felony terroristic threat charges against these malefactors any day now.

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Trey and Matt could choose to come out swinging in their forthcoming movie Team America: World Police II, but again that means they and theirs will be forced into secret armed compounds, a heavy price to pay for making free speech in modern America.

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This, at the same time a brave man speaks the Truth about islam...
Would that they had his courage...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/21/army-weighs-rescinding-invitation-evangelist/?test=latestnews

Franklin Graham Stands By Islam Comments, Awaits Decision on Appearance at Pentagon's Day of Prayer Service.
Evangelist Franklin Graham is sticking by his remarks about Islam, including that Muslims are "enslaved" by their religion, even as he faces being uninvited from the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer service on May 6.
Franklin, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, told Fox News on Thursday that he loves Muslim people and wants them to know that God loves them, even if they can be saved only through Jesus Christ.

"I want them to know that they don't have to die in a car bomb, don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God. But it's through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone," Graham said.

Graham said said he loves the Muslim people, just not their religion -- which he called "horrid" for its restrictions on women.

"I love the people of Islam but their religion, I do not agree with their religion at all. And if you look at what the religion does just to women, women alone, it is just horrid. And so yes, I speak out for women. I speak out for people that live under Islam, that are enslaved by Islam and I want them to know that they can be free," he said.
Graham said it's up to the military to decide whether he will be a guest speaker, but he will show up if the invitation is still on the table.

The Army is considering whether to rescind Graham's invitation to be honorary chairman at the May 6 event amid complaints from Muslim members of the U.S. military who have not forgiven him for his description of Islam as evil.

After the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Graham said Islam "is a very evil and wicked religion." In a later op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, Graham wrote that he did not believe Muslims were evil because of their faith, but "as a minister ... I believe it is my responsibility to speak out against the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching.

islam is a lie and
Truth is killing it.

Let's have regularly censored and bleeped out versions.

Islam in your face, via South Park

They just took Billie O's advice, he's intimidated too...
It's just as well they backed up since they would depict Mahound as an all around good guy for a Prophet

These are not only threats, it's bullyism...Bullyism is terrorism without a bomb...'I have been made victorious by bullyism'...Mahound never bombed anyone, he hired lawyers...
When the lawyers failed him he had them killed and commandeered their wives...You won't see that on S.Fork

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There is such a gold mine of humor in this, that I think the producers of South Park will be able to get around the censorship.
I hope they take it and run with it !

I dont think it scared Matt and Trey as much as it did the producers.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/ComedyCentral?ref=ts

Comedy Central's FB page. Tons of comments against their censorship of South Park. We are all in good company :)

Last night, "South Park" continued the controversial Muhammad storyline, but with a key difference: every instance of the words "Prophet Muhammad" was bleeped out, making the episode practically incomprehensible, especially to anybody who missed the previous week.

South Park should broadcast this episode regularly.

I know what will happen next, Muslims will approach Obama and protest that the continued bleeping is giving Islam a bad name.

parker and stobe comedy central series had been intimidated by a radical islamic terrorist website!!!

if this is true as if you're telling me that the lion king of the forest had been intimidated by a filthy monkey who just made a harsh scream!

what happened to the freedom of speech ?

is US constitution under threat?

this reminds me of what happened after the movie '' the siege'' has been realised acting Bruce willice and Denzel Washington and muslims not only from america but from all over the world had accused the director as anti semetic and xenophobic and whatever begotry you can envoke.

where are the law enforcements such as FBI, CIA aren't they supposed to investigate this website?

sorry for my stupid questions but Comedy central series are not living in united states of islamica this is america land of the free and home of the brave or am i just bluffing?

so if jesus had been put in animation in central park and that's ok why not the last prophet ? as far iam concerned US constitution and not Sharia is the law to abide in.

in this regard , i remember an incident in which had been considered as an actual joke in lebanon, Once upon a time , the muslim imams had met with an ex lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri at his Qreitim house in Beirut and complained to him that his channel the future TV is broadcasting on a daily basis a liquor advertisement and this is against islam tradition and he simply told them that if they don't like it they can use the remote control to change the channel! and here you go problem solved so why can this simple solution be applied in US

needless to say that Lebanon thank goodness is not a sharia law state otherwise it will be chaotic

Isn't our government supposed to protect our right to free speech? Waiting of Obama to protect us from Islamic norms.

Hmm... isn't THIS what "islamophobia" really is?

What's wrong with bleeping out muhammad's name? Censors bleep out filthy words all the time...

;)

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but none of the commenters at Jihad Watch use their real names.
How many of us are prepared to put our lives on the line, not to mention our children's lives, as we exercise our phantom right to free speech?
Surely this is even more of an issue than the fatwa-apostasy bus. Some Muslims want to leave Islam: as things stand, they can do it with the help of the church.
But for the anti-Islam crowd, we don't know if lists are being made of names ranging from publicly visible writers such as Robert Spencer to any Joe Blow using their name on a comment forum.
Let's face it, we want to be anonymous for obvious security reasons, but want to have heroes who speak boldly and openly.
The South Park people are not really on our side. They might be vulgar and often funny, but their message ends up being a PC one in nearly every episode.
One day WE will have to come out of the woodwork and risk our lives and our children's lives. In the meantime, I wouldn't waste energy in being outraged by the makers of South Park being dhimmis. We are dhimmis too, to different degrees. Finding creative ways to defeat dhimmitude is our job.

Isn't our government supposed to protect our right to free speech?

Trouble is, the protections are being subsumed by the UN and other global organizations. And don't forget that free speech has already been shot down by our corrupt judiciary's tacit approval of laws prohibiting "hate speech", whatever that is.

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I dont think it scared Matt and Trey as much as it did the producers.

And last night's incomprehensible episode was a biting commentary on the suits at Comedy Central. I think their point was that the show was as incomprehensible and as incoherent as our national dialog on Islam.

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Except that in the real world there are no censorship boxes or bleeps to mask over offensive statements.

In this world the enemy is hiding in plain sight, and nobody dares make a public statement critical of Islam.

So they're not allowed to use the name 'Mohammed'?

Plenty of other ways to refer to him.

Here's a couple of suggestions. How about using his *real name*, rather than 'Mohammed' (meaning 'praised one') which is merely an honorific, the ninth-century equivalent of 'dear leader' or 'der fuehrer'? I hear his real name was something like 'abu [a]'l kasim'. And here's another suggestion - the great Jewish physician Maimonides, in the 12th century, referred to Mohammed as 'ha-Meshugga', that is, 'the Mad One'.

So: satirise him to your heart's content, but just don't call him 'Mohammed' when you do. Use his real name, or an acronym thereof, or use Maimonides' clinical diagnosis.

The obligatory PBUH constantly repeated in all Mohammedan discourse and texts will, of course, immediately suggest its replacement by a suitable vulgar pun, as will SWT. (Give all the Slaves fly-swats to wave about). After all, we all know what attracts flies.

Or you could take a leaf from J K Rowling's book and call the Arab 'prophet'/ profit 'He Who Must Not Be Named', or 'You Know Who'; and his followers, 'They Who Must Not Be Named'. Everyone in the western world and in India will get the joke.

To gain inspiration for future shows, I suggest tuning in to Fr Zakaria Botros' 'Life TV', the segments that discuss various actions of the 'profit' of blood and war, as recorded in the Hadith and Sira (warning: even YOUR stomachs may be turned...). Or go visit Ali Sina's faithfreedom site and look for a comic strip entitled 'Mohammed's "Believe It...Or Else!!"'.

Here's one episode in the career of Ha-Meshugga that you absolutely MUST do - "Thank Heaven [or, thank 'allah'] For Little Girls" (just ring up Mr Robert Spencer beforehand and get him to show you and explain to you the relevant portions of the Sira, or Life of Mohammed, and of the Hadith; it's all there, all you need to add is the sweetly-chirping little-girl voice to do the narration, the story jumps right off the page, the animation will draw itself).

Of course, once you start doing this, you will need to take suitable action to defend yourselves, since at the moment, for some strange reason, the FBI and the police aren't arresting these mafia-style 'sons of allah' and giving them the boot out of the country.

Have a chat to Kurt Westergaard and to Mr Vilks in Sweden, he of the 'modoggies'. Acquire a double-barrelled shotgun each, do target practice every day; and ask Mr Vilks to visit your Colorado retreat and set it up with an array of cleverly-designed boobytraps, and give you some lessons in the use of the axe.

For this you were created, guys. Remember Chaplin and 'The Great Dictator'. Don't run from the people-eating monster; puncture it with a thousand skewerings of the pen; but man up and keep your powder dry while you're doing it.

With so many "mohammads" and "muhammads" in the world,how can one be sure that none/any of them have not declared themselves/himself of not being a prophet of islam? and why should that/those person(s) be free from criticism and/or ridicule?

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With so many "mohammads" and "muhammads" in the world,how can one be sure that none/any of them have not/have declared themselves/himself of not being a prophet of islam? and why should that/those person(s) be free from criticism and/or ridicule?
As a matter of fact..my name is muhammad and I am the real prophet of islam, and truthfully,believe me or else,South Park is funnier than hell.
Well it used to be anyhoo..There really is no fun in islam is there?

Let me quote Ann Althouse in her blog today concerning South Park and Muslims.

Those who have no backbone will do the bidding of those who do.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/04/comedy-central-cowers-in-face-of-murder.html

Her words will be one day be quoted much as John Adams or Patrick Henry are today.

I watched the episode and I think hiding the self-appointed prophet in a bear costume was pretty hilarious, as well as the big block labelled censored.

Mohammedans have got no sense of humour, they will never, ever learn.

Muhammad should be bleeped out of all TV references, South Park included. Pioneers of Tomorrow is also an apropos forum for censorship.

Muhammad should also be bleeped out and stricken from every spoken or written record in history. Once complete, then we can eliminates Muhammad's manifesto, the Qur'an, along with the Hadith and Sira, as would be proper, essentially tossing all of Islam into the proverbial toilet, where it truly belongs.

That would be a good start. Then we can bring in an exterminator to deal with the global cockroach problem the world is currently afflicted with, Muslim males who will continue to worship Muhammad.

Let's see what Stone and Parker present next week before we throw them under the bus along with Comedy Central.

Just saying.

Next episode.. Fun With Moo-hammad. moo-hammerhead..[lest they/we can say moo-hammad) A cow(moo-hammad) fu**ing a nine year old pig. Now THAT'S funny.

A number of comments have wondered if the FBI is investigating this. Ha! They're too busy looking into REAL THREATS like the nine-man-strong Hutaree to have time for minor issues like death-threats from Moslem mobs.

There's no comedy in Derek Devereaux's "Portrait of Mohammed." It's all historically accurate, and the more disturbing for that. I'd love to see it printed and spread across the landscape, goading Muslims into finally accepting that their phony tantrums are no longer acceptable to the world.

Muslims know this cartoon extremely well, and yet they refuse to condemn it, in part because it is an accurate portrayal of Mohammed, in part because they know that we who publish it just don't care about Muslim tantrums, are intimidates, ain't backing down.

Mohammed:

http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2010/04/thou-shalt-not-speak-name-mohammed.html

This is a disgrace. No TV producer should work under death threats. Where are the FBI and law enforcements people tracking down those on this USA based website RevolutionMuslim.com ? These people should be caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law for making death threats. Let them be set as example that in this the Freedom loving USA no one and I mean no one can get away with making death threats against other people. Imagine if any one on Jihad watch makes death threats against other people, there would be such a hue and cry calling for expose and punishment.

As for the series South Park they should really take a cue from some brave European newspapers who reprinted the Muhammad toons, and continue portraying Muhammad. In fact I would suggest they put Muhammad in a pig costume, or have him behead some people in their town, or have him chasing little south park girls. A lot of satire can be done with such a character like Muhammad.

Who owns Comedy Central? I suspect petrodollars are at work, besides just overly-comfortable, cowardly executives.

By submitting to Islamic pressure to censor their latest episode, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park, are now my heroes.

Remember, these are the guys who made 'Team American - World Police' ... a movie that originally got a NC-17 rating ... with *puppets*. In South Park episode 66, they had a counter at the bottom of the screen to enumerate the 162 times the word "shit" was openly used in the dialog of a 30 minute show.

In this episode - 201 - the image of Muhammad is blacked out as too pornographic to be shown, and Muhammad's name bleeped as too profane to be spoken, and they are going to get *that message* past the censors.

Wow, just wow.

A crude but inciteful video here. Get it quick. This can't last long.

(Yes, my proofreading skills suck.)

http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2010/04/mohammed-crack-smoking-paedophile-video.html

Islam, Muhammad, Muslim terrorist...all on the same line...

The original episode with the Teddy Bear is still available On Demand from Time-Warner cable in NYC.

This is an email I sent to Tony Fox. He is the executive vice president of Comedy Central.

Mr. Fox,
Comedy Centrals actions makes it more dangerous for anyone that believes in freedom. You are only embolding psychotic muslims to keep using their tactics. If you cave in to bullies, you make it that much harder for someone to stand up to real oppression. It is easy for South Park to attack Christianity. Christianity teaches peace. No one will threaten or hurt you. Islam teaches war against all non-muslim.

You have now run into the power of pure evil. You are making choices that will effect our whole country. Perhaps choices that will effect the freedom of your children and grandchildren. You now sense the danger of Islam. If you stand up to evil, perhaps Americans will wake up to the dangerous situation we are in. For me, I will never watch Comedy Central again if you don't make a stand. Please go to Jihadwatch.org, if you want to find what muslims are doing.

Thank You
Bryan Martin

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The only concern I have with this latest in a long line of travesties is that it fuels the fires of moslem idiocy and causes them to say such remarks as "See? They revere our religion more than their own!"

Ask around, check a few forums, you'll see for your selves.

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I saw the episode.

That goofy bear costume with the tongue lolling out was perfect! So funny!

I can't believe the cowards in this country. Grown men. And we fought the Nazis. It's just unbelievable.

Hollywood, bowing to the government because cigarettes were being smoked in too many scenes...how responsible. What courage and morality.

And Comedy Central with their doofus liberal asshats like Colbert making fun of Bristol Palin, but UNABLE TO insult the Prophet.

What if everyone made fun of Mo? What if everybody used a Qu'ran for target practice out back? Or dragged it from their car's bumper? Or went for a block around the nearest mosque and posted Westergaard's famous depiction of Mo on every pole?

Muslims are too comfortable in the U.S. Hell, Piss Christ was an abomination in my mind, but who was even threatened? This Muhammed stuff is art, and we have to start putting it everywhere. Art is sacred, right?

I learned not to take crap from bullies in grade school. I thought they still taught that?

Where have all the cojones gone?

Shame on us for allowing this, the more you take, the more you will.

PLEASE STOP COMPLAINING AND SEND AN EMAIL TO TONY FOX- EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF COMEDY CENTRAL. MAKE A PHONE CALL, IF POSSIBLE. THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO. VOICE OUR OPINION. AND TELL EVERY PERSON YOU MEET ABOUT JIHADWATCH.ORG

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THANK YOU
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Bryan, that was gallant but possibly foolish.
Theres nothing cowardly about protecting yourself.

Bryan, that was gallant but possibly foolish.
Theres nothing cowardly about protecting yourself, just dont demad that others do what you would not.
I will contact Tony Fox.

U.S. Army withdraws Franklin Graham Pentagon prayer day invitation

By Dan Wooding

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Stars and Stripes (http://www.stripes.com) is reporting that the U.S. Army has disinvited Franklin Graham to speak at the Pentagon on National Prayer Day after a military advocacy group objected because Graham has reportedly described Islam as "evil" and "wicked."

Franklin Graham before an event at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena
(Photo: Dan Wooding)

"I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to participate in the Pentagon's special prayer service," Graham said in a statement on Thursday.

"I want to express my strong support for the United States military and all our troops. I will continue to pray that God will give them guidance, wisdom and protection as they serve this great country."

Graham was expected to speak at the Pentagon on May 6, 2010, drawing the ire of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group focused on religious favoritism in the military.

In a story written by reporter Jeff Schogol for the Stars and Stripes, which describes itself as "The Independent News Source for the U.S. Military Community," said that the Military Religious Freedom Foundation had been prepared to seek a temporary restraining order against National Prayer Day if it were "polluted by someone as hideously Islamophobic as Franklin Graham," said Mikey Weinstein, head of the group.

Schogol said that in a 2001 op-ed piece, Graham wrote that he does not believe Muslims are evil, but he objects to the treatment of women in Muslim countries and Islam's historic "persecution or elimination" of other religions.

Today (Thursday, April 22, 2010), Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, told Fox News that while he loves Muslims, "I speak out for people that live under Islam, that are enslaved by Islam and I want them to know they can be free through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone."

The story said that Council on American Islamic Relations spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said it is "completely inappropriate" for Graham to speak in front of a military audience.

"These are individuals who are potentially going to be stationed in Muslim majority nations, and they don't need to hear from someone spreading hatred of Islam and Muslims," Hooper said.

"What does that say to those who are going to be asked to serve in these regions and how is that going to affect their interaction with the local population?" Graham is honorary chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a group that organizes Christian events that was invited to participate in National Day of Prayer by the Pentagon chaplain's office.

An Army spokesman told the Associated Press the Pentagon's relationship with the Christian group does not violate Defense Department rules.

"We are an all-inclusive military," said Col. Tim Collins. "We hold observances throughout the year. This one happens to be a Christian-themed event."

But, said the reporter, his comments were criticized by the Secular Coalition for America, an advocacy for non-religious Americans.

"For the Pentagon to hold an explicitly 'Christian-themed event' around the day of prayer is brazenly out of all reasonable bounds, and explicitly exclusionary to U.S. service members of all non-Christian faiths and of no faith," group Executive Director Sean Faircloth said in a release.
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If anyone knows how to get an email to the Secretary of the U.S. Army, The Honorable John McHugh, please let us know.

I didn't send this information so that we could all complain on jihadwatch. I'm telling you so we can come up with someone's email address or phone number so we can peacefully protest.

Ask people to come up with some ideas. With all of your readers we can come up with a peaceful means of getting the word out to others. The truth needs to get out in the light.

Bryan

Reading the comments following the
"Pentagon disinvites evangelist who scorned Islam"
on the Reuters' website....
Most Americans have a lot to learn

- Christianity is just as violent as Islam....
- Last time I checked the two religions are both Abrahamic religions and are historically two of the world’s three primary monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which share a common origin and values....
-Squeaky clean Frankie Boy ought to do a little more remonstrating with his co-religionists who I’ve found to have brought an inordinate amount of suffering and sorrow to the world this past millennium...
-Christianity certainly is no better in the way they treat women.....

And those are just taken from a few comments.
Are people really that ignorant?

To be honest I agree with the Muslims on this one.
Knowing that they also revere Jesus as a Prophet, just like they do Mohammed I understand that they make these threats just as often when Christ is portrayed in South Park or something like Piss-Christ. No, wait a minute?
If they consider Jesus as being a Prophet in the same line as Mohammed, who delivered exactly the same message, don't they find the portrayal of him offensive???
Hmmmm, something doesn't add up here. It's as if the whole "all from the same Abrahamic faith" angle is kinda bullshit......
I really hope our Muslim friends aren't lying to us - nah, I wouldn't think so. Where would be the precedent - or indeed the P R E S I D E N T ......

VampireJack

"Knowing that they also revere Jesus as a Prophet, just like they do Mohammed...."

Taqiyya alert!

You need to do some reading.
The Islamic Allah is NOT the same as the Christian God.
The Christian Jesus is NOT thes same as the Islamic Isa.
and, honestly
Abraham, Moses and Jesus were NOT Muslim prophets.

Maybe you need some reading that does not come from straight from CAIR or another islamic 'scholar'. You sound like Ibrahim Hooper, the national communications director of CAIR. He condescendingly tells Christians his religion has nothing but respect for Jesus and His followers (yeah right).

"Ibn Kathir notes Islamic traditions that predict that at the end of the world, "the Jews will support the Dajjal (False Messiah), and the Muslims, along with 'Isa [Jesus], son of Mary, will kill the Jews."

Does that sound like Jesus?

Jesus is a muslim
Jesus is not the son of God
Jesus did not die on the cross
Jesus is just one of the muslim prophets and way less important than Mo.

Have you ever heard a muslim protesting when Jesus is being ridiculed?

In February of 2006, Muslims went on a month long saturnalia of violence, and murder after muslim leaders such as Yusef Qaradawi, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference told Muslims they should "rage" over cartoons published in Denmark. Over a hundred people were killed world wide as a result.

"On 12 February 2008, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) announced the arrest of three Muslims — two Tunisians and one Moroccan-born Dane — who were charged with planning to murder [cartoonist] Westergaard." -Wikipedia

In September of 2008, Muslim cleric Muhammad Munajid declared that Mickey Mouse should be killed. Although Muslims know that cartoon characters can not be killed, the implication was clear; people drawing, broadcasting, or wearing images offensive to Muslims can be killed.

In fact, only 2 days earlier, Sheikh Salih Ibn al-Luhaydan had announced it was legitimate to kill those who broadcast "immoral" programming.

In November of 2009, the man whose sermon RevolutionMuslim used, Anwar al-Awlaki, helped inspire Nidal Hasan to commit the Ft Hood shooting.

In January of 2010, there was another attempt on the life of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, and his 5 year old grand daughter.

In March of 2010, it was announced that seven people were arrested in a plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks.

Solicitations by Muslims to commit murder should be answered with arrest, prosecution, and incarceration.

Using anonymity or pen names on the internet is a more complicated issue than merely one of bravery versus cowardice in light of Islamic threats. For example, I use anonymity or obvious pen names when I'm posting on other sites (news sites, science sites, etc.) where there is no death threat, no threat from politically correct individuals, etc. I do this because there are other problems with using my real name. For example, if you use your real name, anyone else can then take your name and use it in all kinds of ways of which you do not approve, including in committing crimes. Hence, when I use a name, it is something obviously fictional or historical, or just "anonymous," or generic.

I do criticize Islam openly in my day-to-day-life when the topic arises, but let me say that I am nowhere near as brave as people like Spencer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sam Harris, and others who criticize Islam in public in front of massive audiences and who receive death threats from all over the world as a result. (That is in addition to all the character assassination, defamation, etc., made against them by Muslim propagandists and their witting or unwitting facilitators). Robert and other famous critics of Islam have chosen this noble profession. Most of us have day jobs or full time studies that have nothing to do with Islam. For most people, using their own real name on a popular site that is critical of Islam (e.g., JihadWatch), and in making criticisms of Islam and Muhammad, is not feasible unless they have money to buy themselves (and possibly their families and associates) security full time. Most people cannot afford the high cost of security which is needed with any public criticism of Islam. Also note that most full-time Islam critics do not publicize their addresses, their itinerary, etc.

I do use my real name in criticizing Islam when writing letters to government officials, for example, to give my (layman's) opinion on Islam-related issues. However, in posting on the internet, I'm pursuing an interest in my spare time; I'm not a full-time professional Islam critic, nor a professional cultural critic/satirist (like, e.g., Kurt Westergaard), nor an Islam-critical politician like Geert Wilders. I find the advantages of anonymity far outweigh the advantages of using my real name--which in my case would carry no weight in terms of credibility since I am not an expert/professional in this area. Only the contents of my posts can carry weight (or not!), depending on how well I've supported and expressed my claims. I do understand there is a kind of "stand up and be counted," or "I am Spartacus" type of strength to be gained by adding my real name to my criticisms of Islam on the internet, but the ability to get my criticisms out there without having to hire security (and deal with all the other problems associated with being a public figure) is currently a trade-off that I'm willing to accept. That could change in the future.

Some professional or expert Islam critics such as Ibn Warraq, Abul Kasem, and Hugh Fitzgerald have shown that you do not have to use your real name to be effective in getting your Islam-critical views out there. Likewise, for numerous blogs and websites that are critical of Islam.

I can’t believe that militant Muslims have won the day again. No wonder they think that the infidel West is weak and feeble. It often is. And the more the West, or the UK and US, give in to these Muslims, the more they will demand. The more they will think they can achieve.

This time it is the cartoon South Park that has been threatened by ‘militant’ Muslims. (Are all Muslims militant? It sometimes seems that way.) South Park dared to feature Mohammed. It is forbidden in Islam to portray Mohammed in any way. That’s right. It is forbidden in Islam. Not in America. Not in Christianity. Not for infidels to portray him. So why should non-Muslims bow down to these naked threats from Muslims? Because these people usually get what they want. This is just one more example of Muslims making non-Muslims abide by the strict and stupid strictures of that mass death-cult, Islam.

Isn’t South Park meant to be a hip and anti-establishment show? Maybe it’s hip. Maybe it’s anti-establishment. But it’s a soft sucker for a Muslim threat. Throw the Bible down the toilet and you get awards from an arty organisation. Accidentally stand on the Koran and there’s riot in Timbuktu and suicide bombings in Karachi.

It is still not clear if the programme’s makers, Mr Stone and Mr Parker, were responsible for all the bleeps and the blackouts. It may have all been done on the orders of the network, Comedy Central, which did indeed place additional audio bleeps throughout the sacrilegious episode.

However, it may have been a clever trick, on South Park creators’ part, not to cancel the whole episode completely. Instead they bleeped and blocked out the offending parts and flashed the word ‘CENSORED’. This at least shows the audience what has happened to their programme. It also shows the fans that South Park has in fact been threatened by Muslim thugs. So perhaps this wasn’t an outright example of cowardice after all.

The Muslim group warned South Park’s creators that they could ‘face violence’ if they depicted Mohammed in any way. That Muslim group is called Revolution Muslim. They even had the sick audacity to write, on a website, that the South Park creators ‘will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh’. That is - dead. Another sacrificial lamb to the ever-thirsty Islam’s desire for infidel corpses. Van Gogh himself was murdered in 2004. His crime? To have made a film about how violent Islam is towards women. The Muslim killed Van Gogh, I assume, to prove to us all how non-violent Islam is. Muslims never seem to get the irony of their violent responses to accusations of Islamic violence. Irony, unlike Islam, is not really a medieval thing. (Backwards time travel is possible. Go to Islamic Pakistan and see.)

More specifically, this episode was to show Mohammed – I will not say ‘the Prophet’! – wearing a bear costume. And why not? Just the other day I saw a fairly funny add depicting the Buddha. Did any Buddhists riot or kill for this ‘offence’ – for this ‘insult’? Of course not. That may be because Buddhism is not an egg shell, like Islam, that can so easily be broken. It can take a few knocks. Just as many religions do. Remember The Life of Brian? That film was much loved, apparently, by many Christians.

With Islam everything is different. It is so weak, not strong, as a religion that even the slightest criticism, or ‘insult’ or ‘offence’, is seen as a fatal sacrilege. This is also because Islam is the most violent and irrational of religions. The rage and the riots do not show us the deepness of the faith, but Islam’s shallowness. There has never been an argumentative or philosophical tradition within Islam which could help Muslims cope with criticism. Fair enough, there have been various sects, schools of interpretation and whatnot. But no deep philosophical movement that has been allowed to question Islam itself. That’s partly why there are so many Muslims on this planet. Along with death for apostasy and the long history of Islamic imperialism, the closed Muslim mind also helps explain the fact that there are over a billion Muslims. That large number, though, is seen by many Muslims as the most definitive and clear proof of Islam’s truth and righteousness. It’s just a body count in the end.

Islamic hyper sensitivity over Mohammed and bears is not new. November 2007 saw a British schoolteacher, Gillian Gibbons, sentenced to 40 lashes for choosing 'Mohammed' from a list suggested by her pupils, aged seven, in her Sudanese class for the class teddy bear.

There is a clever trick that can be used that works nicely. Turn "bleep" into the word formerly known as "Muhammed". Make it OBVIOUS that every bleep is somebody saying "Muhammed".

{^_^}

When a religico-political movement can forbid the use of satire against it then a society is already within its tightening grip and democratic liberties become more the stuff of illusion than reality.

Let's not forget that Islamic icon....Farfur , the rat....nor the furry Islamic rabbit that inspires Muslim children to go forth and begin slaying non Muslims...

Muslims have their own idea of just what a furry creature can say...

Kinana

Fully agree w/ you. If an argument is solid or well presented, whether the name of the person who presented it is real or fake is immaterial. I've seen tons of posts from this and other sites on Islam and other topics, and I have no way of knowing what percentage of it was from people posting under their real names. Nor do I care - I mean, if I did know that xxx was John or Jane Smith of Ft Collins, CO, what on earth would I do w/ that info? But that person would simply risk endangering himself not just from actual Muslims, but from pro-Muslim pcmc nutcases living in his/her area.

In real life, I rarely discuss the topic when Muslims are around, and when they aren't, I'm as aggressive there as I am here in pointing out how vile they are, how evil Islam is and how they don't belong in our societies. For instance, one night, while going home, a person I work w/ was discussing an inter-religious marriage involving a Muslim guy, and commented that somehow it didn't sound right to him. I pointed out to him that unlike w/ others, such as Christians, Jews, et al, when a person converts to Islam, s/he is expected to sever all relationships w/ their family unless and until they too convert. I thereby pointed out how something that seems pretty innocuous as inter-religious marriage is pretty transformed when one of the religions in question involves Muslims.

Of course, I'm not stupid that I'd say this to Muslims on their face, and then risk not me, but family and associates being @ the receiving end of the next fatwa. I am willing to accept that if I'm unwilling to confront Muslims face to face in public due to my security, I'm a coward. But if I'm unwilling to do it b'cos of what it might do to others, many of whom don't share my opinions, am I?

NOW? "Muhammad" is a dirty word?
I think it has ALWAYS been a dirty word.

Some relevant clips online that I recommend:

I just watched a video clip of Anderson Cooper discussing this South Park case with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Well worth watching.

Another interesting clip I watched was of Bill O'Reilly talking with security expert Ann Hayes about this case. Hayes gave her opinion that Parker and Stone should hire security. At the same time, she noted that since this was not a clear direct threat, it would be difficult to prosecute.

So this clearly shows we've got a weakness in our legal systems whereby free expression is not adequately protected. That is, someone can make an apparently veiled threat that is serious enough that the recipient of the threat should hire security, but the person who makes the threat (which also involves an appeal to the Muslim population to act on the threat) cannot be prosecuted. We need to do something to fix this lacuna in our system.

One good thing about this situation is that, now that the Revolutionmuslim guy has made this threat, he'll be under much greater scrutiny and suspicion. (I know; he's made threats before, but now he's under greater pressure). This increases the chances, I think, that he'll be charged and prosecuted if he tries to pull something like this again.

Another good thing about this situation: there is major mainstream public attention to the issue of freedom of expression and Islam. Thank you Parker and Stone.

RevolutionMuslim is now using another website, revolutionmuslimdaily.blogspot.com

Here's some of what they wrote in "clarifying" and reaffirming their earlier veiled threats:

EXCERPT:

"[...] As for the Islamic ruling on the situation, then this is clear. There is no difference of opinion from those with any degree of a reputation that the punishment is death. Ibn Taymiyyah a great scholar of Islam says, "Whoever curses the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) -a Muslim or a non Muslim- then he must be killed...and this is the opinion of the general body of Islamic scholars.”"

"Likewise Ibn Mundhir, another classical scholar, said, "It is the consensus (ijma’) of our scholars that the one who curses the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) should be executed!""

"This is also the opinion of Imams Malik, al-Laith, Ahmed, Ishaq, Shafi'i, and Numan Abu Haneefah."

"This shows that taking this stance is virtually obligatory, but it does not mean that our taking this stance is in some way an absolute call toward the requirement that the creators of South Park must be killed, nor a deliberate attempt at incitement, it is only to declare the truth regardless of consequence and to offer an awareness in the mind of Westerners when they consider doing the same thing."

"Many are proclaiming that the South Park episode’s insult was minimal and some might inquire about a situation where the insult is not that great. The renowned scholar Imam Malik said, "If someone says that the button of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is dirty, then he should be executed!""

"And then Qadi I'yad says, "And we don't know any different opinion, this is a consensus and we don't know any different opinion!""

"Before continuing it must be made clear that anyone who knows anything about Usool ul-Fiqh (the fundamentals of jurisprudence) knows that ijma' (consensus) is a hujjah (proof) as the Prophet, salaa Allahu 'alayhi wa salam, said, "My Ummah cannot have consensus on something that is wrong." This means that the above opinions are the accepted opinions and these statements are proof that this is the case. While the details of this conversation may have lost our non-Muslim audience in evidences from the religion we implore you to read on and advise you that the system of law in Islam, known as shariah, is the most amazing thing the mind could ever encounter."

"In the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) two key events stand out that provide evidence for the permissibility and indeed preference for retaliation against those that insult him. In the first, a blind Muslim man who had a Jewish wife (and some say servant) assassinated his wife when she continuously cursed and mocked Muhammad (peace be upon him). In the other, a Jewish poet by the name of Ka’b bin al-Ashraf was killed for his poetry insulting the Prophet
even though he was living under peaceful covenant with the Muslims and was within his own territory. If anyone is in need of details and sources for these occurrences feel free to contact us and we will forward them to serious inquirers. At this point, it must be known that this is the position in Islam, that there is consensus in it and that for those that argue the harm coming as a consequence exceeds thebenefit, then they should know that this is at best an argument that entails a difference of opinion although the evidence suggests that adopting the platform that we ourselves have taken is best."

"The law, known as shariah, in Islam is sacred and it is for no man to change, alter, or disregard when reacting to events like the recent degrading of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) on South Park. Indeed there is an Islamic ruling on nearly every affair and Muslims must seek their response in the religion and not in the personal desire and false manipulation of subjective introspection via philosophy or, as in most cases, emotional attachment to socialized norms."

"Allah says in the Quran, “And do not clothe the truth with the falsehood, nor hide the truth while you know (2:42).”"

"It is not for us to convey what we desire but to convey the religion in its entirety no matter the consequence."

"Allah also says in the Quran, “Surely you can have no true faith until you refer to the Prophet Muhammad in all your affairs. (4:65).”"

"Thus the postings that have caused so much controversy on revolutionmuslim.com with regard to this matter were actually not the publication of the opinion of some Muslims but a referral and deferment to Islamic Law, thus fulfilling our divine obligation to command the good and forbid the evil by teaching and preaching the religion of Islam no matter how strange that way of life may seem to some. This is a divine order, obligatory for at least some Muslims in any community to fulfill. Allah says,"

وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ"
بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ
الْمُفْلِحُونَ"

"Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity. (3:104)"

"Ibn Kathir, in his renown exogenesis of the Holy Quran says that this is not restricted to people with official authority, or in this case is not restricted to those that are seeking appeasements with the American Empire who are in actuality from amongst its staunchest allies, those who despite this claim to be Muslim and have been granted positions of leadership here in this country. Ibn Kathir states, “The objective of this Ayah is that there should be a segment of this Muslim Ummah fulfilling this task, even though it is also an obligation on every member of this Ummah, each according to his ability. Muslim recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said,"

مَنْ رَأَى مِنْكُمْ مُنْكَرًا فَلْيُغَيِّرْهُ بِيَدِهِ، فَإِنْ لَمْ"
يَسْتَطِعْ فَبِلِسَانِهِ، فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِع فَبِقَلْبِهِ، وَذلِكَ
"أَضْعَفُ الْإِيمَان

"“Whoever among you witnesses an evil, let him change it with his hand. If he is unable, then let him change it with his tongue. If he is unable, then let him change it with his heart, and this is the weakest faith.” [...]"

END OF EXCERPT

The Sad Truth is that the Multi-millionaires cowards that put on South Park, are, in reality, quite sympathetic towards the Muslim Religion. This is well known. Their Comedic sense come from their belief that there really is not a great deal of "free-will" in the universe and that people are helpless to resist the colossal environmental pressures against them to become, say.., homosexual, or a pedophile etc. So they show these kinds of people in a very sympathetic light. Well, it so happens that the Muslims, in line with all Muslim belief, and in line with their Bible, the Koran, also do not believe there is much, if any, of this "free-will". So, just color these millionaires pale green, the color of FELLOW TRAVELERS WITH THE ISLAMIC MUSLIMS WORSHIPPERS OF MUHAMMAD'S VOICES.

Strange, isn't it...well, maybe not so much. They had NO hesitation using Jesus as their satire of the week.

Comedy Central should have gone all-out after those crybaby muslimes took offense--maybe even just ran a week of nothing but satire against islam...my grandfather fought the Nazis in WWII and I myself am a 2-time Iraq veteran...it's such a simple and easy thing to stand up for one's freedom but people refuse...I apologize for my bad language but CC are pussies.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali weighs in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEzQ2QTqReY

It includes a snippet of Trey Parker and Matt Stone speaking about possible threats and/or attacks (around 5min into the video)

Stone and Parker apparently wanted to show muhammad, and considered it hypocritical not to.

I never say Muhammad, which we now know is a dirty word. I always say Damm'ahum, and the Muslims seem to like it:-)