So....just to let everyone know, I'm addicted to Yahoo! news headlines. When you click your internet icon and your Yahoo! homepage comes up, the very first thing you see is a long list of mostly trashy, sometimes educational, always interesting headlines enticing you, screaming: "You have nothing more important to be doing right now! Come on....waste a minute reading....or thirty".
Its what I do. I read the headlines. I read about everything from who wore what dress and how horrible they it made their butt look...to what not to eat; who's being traded to which team and what bachelor is now looking for elligible young, preferrably smoking hot women. I read about the health bill....I read about Obama...I read about the red carpet and daytime television. SPEAKING OF!! I read about trashy television shows and who's sueing who and how much they're sweeping in. And today....I read about South Park.
By definition of Wikipedia: South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central Television Network. It is intended for adult audiences. The show has become infamous for its crude, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics. The ongoing narrative revolves around four children—Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick—and their bizarre adventures in and around the fictional and titular Colorado town.
So South Park, in all its raunchiness, spends most of its time mocking religious affiliations and different ethic groups. The four main characters routinely find themselves in positions to make fun of a real-life and otherwise serious situation. I don't personally watch South Park but the majority of people my age do.Everyone thinks its hilarious.....let them....fine with me, BUT this time South Park has stepped on the wrong toes! In reading the contagious headlines of Yahoo! I read that the Muslim population threatened the writers of South Park that if they continued to air statements and characters that "poked fun" at the Muslim and Islamic religions....they would meet the same fate that Theo Van Gogh did. Now some of you may ask; Who's Theo Van Gogh? ............Well...He's the guy under the sheet. Basically, Van Gogh, a Dutch film director and producer, produced a film called Submission which was a very graphic depiction of the treatment of women in the Islamic culture. Van Gogh was publicly murdered by an Islamic militant as a repercussion.
So basically...... the word on the street is, or better yet, the word on Yahoo! news is, that if Comedy Central doesn't stop South Park writers from throwing in the religious mud-slinging, the U.S. Muslim Group is going to take it into their own hands. According to Yahoo! this threat...or promise.. from the Muslims can apparently be seen on http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/ .
Which is worse? Religous persecution through Cartoons...or possibly being assasinated for drawing them?
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