HBO Max must really hate slave owners.
All 23 seasons of the Comedy Central animation South Park are available on HBO Max – except for five episodes that depict Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Sources tell Deadline the missing episodes were not part of the 23-season package shopped by Viacom to streamers last year, and Viacom had made the decision to exclude them in agreement with series producer South Park Studios before the show was licensed to HBO Max.
The controversial episodes violate a widespread Islamic belief that depictions of Muhammad or any of the other prophets of Islam are forbidden, as they encourage the worship of idols. The prohibitions cover images, drawings, statues and cartoons.
Christians and Jews have their own beliefs, but they’re not entitled to have them respected. Hindus weren’t fond of South Park depictions either. But their beliefs don’t matter.
Only some religions matter.
The episodes not available on HBO Max include season five’s Super Best Friends and season 14’s 200 and 201. Those shows had previously been removed from a streaming deal with Hulu and also were axed on the official South Park website.
But maybe HBO Max can pull a Gone With the Wind, bring them back on the condition that viewers are forced to watch a one-hour panel of social justice experts calling them racists.
Antiislamicman says
So they are letting Islam take away freedom of speech and expression.
mortimer says
Sharia law forbids ‘mentioning something impermissible’ about Islam or Mohammed. The penalty is death.
FYI says
If muslims take offense at cartoons or animations of muhammed:how about muhammed’s magical winged flying donkey with a woman’s face and a peacock tail called buraq?
Is it ok to draw that:I mean it wouldn’t ridicule perfect mo would it,flying around the clouds on his obviously made-up flying donkey, visiting a mosque that didn’t even exist in mo’s time{koran 17:1}?
What about depictions of allah the god with ONE LEG AND TWO RIGHT HANDS?
muslims don’t care about allah:it is all about muhammed.
umar:aw the infidels mo,they drew some cartoons of you and aww no:stink lines,they put in stink lines mo.
muhammed:peace be upon me.haha I love stink lines on cartoons..
umar:so you are ok with this?
muhammed:peace be upon me.I consider it a great honor..
umar:And even if they put in stink lines?
muhammed:Especially if they put in stink lines…
umar:what about buraq,your magical donkey?
muhammed:THAT i forbid..that would definitely ridicule me..now i’m off …,to fly up to the clouds on my magical flying winged donkey with a woman’s face..to Jerusalem to visit that mosque that doesn’t exist in my time..
Patrick White says
Pedophile Lives Matter.
Eur says
warrior, slaver, pedophile, polygamist, caravan robber, decapiter, dictator, enlightened religious fool …..lives matters
Adam says
So terror does work.
Strength attracts, weakness repels.
gravenimage says
Sadly often true–as here.
gravenimage says
HBO Max Buries Mohammed South Park Episodes Alongside Gone With the Wind
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In other words, you are *not* allowed to mock slave owners.
Moral idiocy.
Giacomo Latta says
Think the pendulum is near stopping? Apparently white actors are not allowed to do the voice-overs for cartoon characters that are non-white. MSM has not explained whether Japanese cartoon characters must be done by Japanese actors, Japanese-looking actors, slightly Japanese-looking with Japanese surnames, Chinese, hey, close enough. If black actors do voice-overs for white characters will they be called out for being racists? Can a talented black in the mould of Sammy Davis Jr. imitate white people? The reverse? Beam me up, Scotty. I have a limited tolerance for all this nonsense.
gravenimage says
Yes–and if this were just for authenticity’s sake it might be different–but there is now a trend of having People of Color playing White characters in plays and films. Why would David Copperfield be Indian, or the Mother Superior in the Sound of Music be Black? These casting choices make no sense.
gravenimage says
Here’s a clip–watch it while you can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSuFN8-tWw
Actually very good stuff about the fear even mentioning Mohammed engenders.
Marttheman says
The only way to get over this moslim sensibility issue is to make so many pictures of Mo, sneer him, tell your truth about what you think of islam publically, without offending anybody in Western standards. In the end we will have to win over the ‘recuperable’ muslims and do-gooders/useful idiots. Most people are so busy with their everyday lives that they just don’t know. It is up to us to educate them gently. I have won some people over. People told me that they started reading the kuran after my pointing out the relation with terror and murder. Even if it is only one percent of people listening to you who react positively, that is a great start. So there is hope.
gravenimage says
I would post link to some of my cartoons of Muhammed here, but they have been removed by PhotoBucket.