Giving in to violent intimidation only encourages more violent intimidation. The West has chosen its path, and will travel down it, and those murderous thugs it encouraged by capitulating over cartoons will make themselves known again.
“‘South Park’ Episodes Banned from HBO for Depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad,” by Alana Mastrangelo, Breitbart, December 26, 2022:
Five episodes of South Park have been banned from HBO Max for depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad, reminding fans that virtually every other religion is considered fair game for making fun of — except for Islam.
South Park, which started in 1997, has five episodes that depict Muhammad: “Super Best Friends,” “Cartoon Wars Part I & II,” “200,” and “201,” all of which are missing from the HBO Max lineup, notes Screen Rant.
In addition to being banned from the streaming service, the episodes are also missing on the South Park Studios website, with each episode hit with a “currently unavailable” notice.
In the episode “Super Best Friends” — which originally aired on July 4, 2001 — the cartoon character Stan calls upon a team of superheroes to counter magician David Blaine’s suicidal cult known as “Blainetology,” which is a very clear dig at Scientology.
The team of superheroes consists of the heads of the world’s most popular religions: Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, Joseph Smith, Laozi, and Muhammad.
Muhammad is also depicted in the episodes “Cartoon Wars Part I & II,” which originally aired in 2006. The episodes are inspired by the controversy surrounding the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published a cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb as his turban in 2005.
In the episode, the fictional town of South Park is panicking after the show Family Guy announces it will be showing Muhammad in its series. The Cartman character argues that depicting Muhammad is offensive to Muslims, while the Kyle character argues the Family Guy episode should be aired as an expression of free speech.
Before the episodes originally aired back in 2006, South Park creators were reportedly in a feud with Comedy Central over depicting Muhammad. Comedy Central ended up airing the episodes with a black title card over the Muhammad sequence. But the episodes were stilled banned from HBO Max, despite censorship already being in place.
At the time of the controversy, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone argued that Comedy Central was hypocritical, as most other religions were considered fair game to poke fun at, but Islam was not….
But again, despite all of this censorship, the episodes are nowhere to be found on HBO Max.
ntesdorf says
The HBO picture of Mohammed looks lifelike.
bill carr says
All the cartoon show I watch make merciless fun of Christianity but they are never banned as far as I know.
tim gallagher says
I suppose that Muhammad, who I don’t think ever existed, is considered to be just too holy and wonderful to be portrayed in any way, and yet I just had this thought – don’t all those Muslims that I see walking around have the long, scraggy, primitive beards so that they look like what they think that Muhammad looked like. I assume that they are all trying to imitate the scraggy look that Muhammad had, but then they get enraged if someone does a portrait of Muhammad. Makes no sense to me. But nothing about islam makes sense to a rational person.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“But nothing about islam makes sense to a rational person.”
100% true.
Interestingly, muslims have a way of leveraging this fact in order to promote their propaganda.
They are counting on the fact that the average person doesn’t stop to kick the tires or look under the hood…
tim gallagher says
That seems to be the problem, James. Too many sleepwalking fools seem to accept all the bullshit, all the endless whingeing about how they are victims, by Muslim propagandists. This ban on portraying Muhammad seems to me to indicate what a primitive load of crap islam is. It is like some kind of superstitious mumbo jumbo. I get why they wouldn’t want caricatures that make their “prophet” look bad, but no representations. But that’s islam. Unlike other religions, it is so primitive and so far back in the past in all its thinking.
Deodata says
Once again, your culture is under attack, and it is only Muslims that are doing it. Is anyone going to say enough is enough.
tim gallagher says
Spot on, Deodata. Only Muslims. I am also waiting for most people in all our societies to wake the hell up and say enough is enough.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Never watched South Park, so just watched the above clip to see what it’s about. Having watched it, I’m now curious about how it continued and ended: how they got both sides what they wanted
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Then found something which I think explains it
https://youtu.be/oBtUaRh1bJ0
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Thanks for the link, it explains a lot.
NoLibsWelcomeHere says
Isn’t mohammed the inventor of (p)islam and alllah the moon-god?
Who CAIRS what the muslims think?
Scotsman48 says
Meanwhile muslims around the entire World are laughing their hairy asses off at the weakness and stupidity of the infidel when we had them buckets of Cash.
If you dont have a sense of humor then it just aint funny….
And islam sure aint a Cult of humor.