YouTube - 'South Park' Episode Prompts Death ThreatsThis video is from the Bill O'Reilly Show from April 20, 2010, where there is a good overall synopsis of the South Park Mohammed Episode and the death threat dilemma that has developed since the Danish Cartoons in 2006.
Here is the "Mohammed" episode from South Park on youthcafe,tv.
And here is the 'boingboing' interview with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone regarding the "Mohammed" 200th episode!
Stan, one the star characters on South Park had already met Mohammed (pictured here- he has flames shooting out of his hands) before the Danish Cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, had death threats made against him.
In an interview for Princeton, Danish Cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard said, "When — in early September 2005 — I got a brief request from my editor at the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten to draw my impression of the prophet Muhammad, I had little idea of what I was getting myself into. To me it was just another day at the office. So I tried to do the best job I could, and I drew up a picture of the prophet with a bomb in his turban. I further inserted the quotation: “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.”
On Sept. 30, the paper published 12 cartoons, including my own, that took Islam and Muhammad as their subject. The ‘Danish cartoon affair’ which ensued turned out to be perhaps the most important free speech case of our time. In the months after the cartoons’ publication, protests against them morphed from peaceful objections to irrational violence which included serious threats on my life. The cartoons have become a watershed test for the ability of the press to comment and criticize all religions without fear of violent reprisal. All of us — and not least the students and faculty at an institution such as Princeton — will be on the center front of this debate for years to come."
The Cartoon by Kurt Westergaard-
Various caricatures were spawned by the Westergard Cartoon, including this-
'There are a lot of nuances in this piece of art (and clearly that is not Muhammad). via Islam in Europe: Denmark: New ‘Muhammad cartoon’.'
The above cartoon is from a great free speech blog: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/
The most insightful of the "Mo' cartoons was the one drawn out of fear by by Stan's Dad on South Park. It shows how empty we have become in no standing up to, what is Islam's Terror now called, "man-caused" disasters.
It's possible that the term "War on Terror" may be outmoded, but surely there were better options than this:
Strange times we live in....STRANGE TIMES INDEED!The end of the Global War on Terror -- or at least the use of that phrase -- has been codified at the Pentagon. Reports that the phrase was being retired have been circulating for some time amongst senior administration officials, and this morning speechwriters and other staff were notified via this e-mail to use "Overseas Contingency Operation" instead.'"
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