You know there comes a time where something that soothe you down from a long day of work ends up not coming on anymore. I miss my ESPN the radio because it gets me through the morning and evening drive with no remorse. I had to listen to my second alternative to ease the pain, National Public Radio. The news that broke out on NPR had me stretching my head.
A radical Muslim group has warned the creators of South Park that they could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit during last week's episode.
The website RevolutionMuslim.com has since been taken down, but a cached version shows the message to South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The article's author, Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee of New York, said the men "outright insulted" the prophet.
The posting showed a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was shot and stabbed to death in an Amsterdam street in 2004 by a fanatic angered by his film about Muslim women. The film was written by a Muslim woman who rejected the Prophet Muhammad as a guide for today's morality.
"We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show," Al-Amrikee wrote. "This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them."
The posting listed the addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and Parker and Stone's California production office. It also linked to a Huffington Post article that described a Colorado retreat owned by the two men.
CNN, which first reported the posting, said the New York-based website is known for postings in support of Osama bin Laden and jihad, or holy war, against the West.
Al-Amrikee told The Associated Press in a phone call Wednesday that the posting was made to raise awareness of the issue and to see that it does not happen again. Asked if Parker and Stone should feel threatened by it, he said "they should feel threatened by what they did."
He said he was disappointed that publicity about the posting focused more on the potential danger to the producers but admitted, "I could shoulder some blame" for it.
He said he "can't answer that legally" when asked if his group favored jihad. But he praised bin Laden.
"We look up to him and admire him for the sacrifices he has given for the religion," he said.
I have one thing to say,
“Are you serious?”
Since when do cartoons make people get so riled up? I mean come on this is cartoon. A comedy cartoon as a matter of fact. Cartoons are like political satires of the world. They are supposed to make us laugh, but as always there are people who don’t find cartoons character very amusing.
I know we had minstrel show cartoon in the early 30s-60s; but come on, blacks have gotten over that. I still remember that Bugs Bunny cartoon where at the end they put on black face and singing Dixie. I never got it when I was because I was a kid. When I was older I was more like, “Why they never played that end.” My father told me that it was a stereotype of painting blackface. I, still looking dumbfounded and not caring was like, “It is not that serious. It is just a cartoon. Plus that was years back.” Then you have black people complaining over a cartoon. I don’t see them complaining about Foxxy Love on Drawn Together who stereotype black women as sassy; or Riley from the Boondocks (My favorite show), which shows every negative stereotype of what black kids are portraying these days (Riley is still my favorite character). We take it as face value and say that is comedy which it is. No harm, no foul. So why does people take cartoon creators so serious. That is an imagination of comedy, not to be taken. So I guess this year I can put Sarah Palin and a radical Muslim group together because it seems like they actually take cartoon characters seriously.
…..But Tea Party conservatives hate to have something in common with Muslim extremist since they think that the President is a Muslim. Don’t cha know?
Do you think cartoon creators take things to far or this is just no harm, no foul?
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