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South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version
Yesterday we mentioned the controversy facing Matt Stone and Trey Parker after last week's South Park (episode 200) depicted Muhammad, founder of Islam, concealed in a bear suit.
Today, penguinman1337 writes "Apparently, all is not well over at Comedy Central. The heavily censored version of episode 201 that aired last night has a lot of people angry, including the show's creators." From their note: "In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps."
Right, but hardly anyone, including devout christians, really believes that crap. Except for whacked out oathkeeper hutaree militia nuts sitting in the Michigan mud wearing camo and playing war, you won't find many people, many christians, or even many bible-humping evangelicals who take the "stone adulterers" seriously.
Mainly because they're busy humping their neighbor's wife, but still, most people in the world don't have to worry about christians shooting up a school bus full of children in the name of hay-zoos. Yet there's good reason to believe the guy driving my cab is trying to get his hands on some explosives to kill people with. In fact, here in Chicago, they just busted a guy for connecting with al qaeda and trying to do that very thing. Fortunately, he wasn't bright enough to figure out that the guy in the plastic "FBI" jacket who said he was working for al qaeda and could hook him up wasn't really who he said he was.
But it's not really all that comforting to know that the main thing that protects us is that religious zealots seldom have much going on "upstairs".
You are welcome on my lawn.
I can't stand that show anymore. Removed it from the Tivo list.
While I have no problem with them poking fun at all things, they never get around to stating their own beliefs.
I think you have to take a stand, right or wrong, if you want your comedy to be important.
Otherwise you're just chucking eggs at people and calling it funny.
"if you happen to be a techno-savvy hard-line Muslim reading this post"
Here you go (I am not sure what techno-savviness has anything to do with it, though).
There are two moments in today controversies in depicting the Prophet, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam:
1. As you noted, the depiction is not allowed in Islam, and answering your question about Shia, their scholars and leaders are not considered Muslims by majority of Sunni scholars, and ordinary Shia folks are considered ignorant deviant Muslims at best.
2. Derogation of the Prophet, which was planned in the recent SP episode. That's a different and far more serious offense with which Muslims are obligated to deal very seriously.
The first point is irrelevant here in this context.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
Throughout history, same-sex couplings have existed, but at no time were they considered a marriage. People today just want to redefine a term with a long-standing meaning to get money from their fellow citizens.
It is perfectly natural to keep the legal definition of marriage as a coupling between 2 adults that may lead to a biological family. There is no benefit to society to recognize anything else.
And it's completely illogical to assume that someone who does not eat animal (non-human) meat would suddenly gain a taste for human. But this kind of stupidly-illogical blather is expected from idiots like you.