Muslim reaction to the April 5th & (hopefully) 12th episodes

I've read a lot of commentary from non-Mulsims regarding "Cartoon Wars." However, I haven't come across any blogs or posts from Muslims weighing in with their opinions.

Did the cartoon offend them? Although the ep never showed Mohammed as an animated rendering, he was still portrayed/represented in a satirical light. Wouldn't this offend radical Islamic sensibilities just as much as an outright drawing?

Are Muslims worldwide planning protests if Comedy Central airs Part 2? I haven't heard "boo" from the world's Muslims, and usually they react immediately at the merest hint of a ruffled feather. If they are reacting, neither the NM or MSM have reported anything yet, and you know they'd both be all over the story if they sensed any kind of Islamic backlash.

When the episode ended, I turned to my wife and said: "Well, that's a fatwa!" I logged on the next morning expecting to find death threats against Trey and Matt peppering the morning news. Yet, lo and behold ...

Nothing.

Am I not looking in the right places? Where are all enraged Muslims who terrorized the world weeks ago over a few meaningless. obscure political cartoons with 0% circulation outside their own countries?

South Park reaches millions of Americans, not to mention Canucks, Brits, Aussies, Kiwis and hosts of other English speakers the world over. With the internet and satellite TV, the whole world effectively watched as South Park throw down the gauntlet. The potential for "defamation" & "mockery" of the prophet and Islam is 1,000,000 times greater with South Park than it ever was with cartoons from some Danish magazine that no one outside of Denmark has ever heard of (until the Muslims brought attention to it).

This is why I find it so strange that Muslim reaction to "cartoon Wars" has been so deafeningly silent. At least the CO$ has some balls to fight back against Trey and Matt and make things more interesting/entertaining and enlightening?

Actually, it took them 4 months before they reacted to the drawings in Denmark...

Thomas Riis Hansen wrote:

You're correct. I forgot to mention that. However, I thought the furor erupted as an immediate response when various magazines began reprinting the 4-month old Danish cartoons that originally went unnoticed. Or is my time-frame mixed-up? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

This still does not answer the question, though. South Park's "insult" has been very well publicized. Radical Muslims the world over must be aware of the "defamation" by now. They read blogs and Google News just as much (maybe even more) than the average American does. So where's the indignation?

Or maybe they learned a hard PR lesson a few weeks ago with the cartoon protests. How ironic would it be if Trey and Matt gave a "Cartoon War" and nobody came.

No, the whole thing was manufactured by a few Danish imams who distributed the cartoons, along with far more inflammatory fakes many months after the fact. Most of the rage you see in the Muslim world was NOT spontaneous.

"Thomas Riis Hansen" wrote in message news:[email]...

Death-worshipping sand people take a bit longer to get moving.

George

"Mark" wrote in message news:[email]...

If the Denmark thing is any indication, the fanatics will suddenky find the Super Best Friends to be a problem.

It'd be real funny if Muslims - whose ranks include folks who think that killing non-believers and rioting over the visual depiction of their prophet is AOK - doesn't react at all to this episode......while Scientology - a weird cult of Hollywood actors who are willing to believe something created by a SCIENCE FICTION WRITER - goes all bonkers, threatens to sue and has Issac Hayes leave the show.

Once Upon A Time Mark wrote:

I don't think they get cable TV over there in the desert. Do they have electricity yet?

** Captain Infinity

Captain Infinity wrote:

Sure, you think al Jazeera broadcasts using steam power or something?

I am a Muslim. A devoted one at that. The only thing about this episode that pisses me off is that I think they did it only because people kept daring them too.

I don't expect the creators of Southpark to cave under that pressure. They rarely if ever have. This episode really felt like they were trying to fulfill an obligation.

As for the actual content of the episode. In no way were they trying to make the prophet himself look bad. The Danish cartoons were. They showed his turban as a bomb, an insult to the religion. He has nothing to do with any of the current violence, yet some ignorant fool decided to depict him in that way. In the case of the Southpark episode, his image IS the centre of controversy, and they are merely making fun of the fact that it is a controversy, and I actually do like how they made it clear in the episode that we consider it wrong to draw him.

Because the intent of this episode was to offend the offenders and the already offended, I didn't see it as a shot to me.

Also, Southpark airs in USA first. It doesn't go to other countries for months, and when it does, you have to make an active choice to watch the show, understanding what it is about, When you open your newspaper, you do not expect that sort of content.

Just my 2 cents.

"Faisal Jiwa" wrote in message news:[email]...

And a valuable 2 cents it is too, Faisal. That's one of the most rational things anyone has said so far.

Well, if I were a Muslim, even one who was enraged by the bomb-in-the-turban cartoon, I'd probably chill out for this one. First of all, the venue: South Park is silliness, a newspaper is serious. Secondly, they know that the Bloody Mary and Trapped in the Closet eps did not cause any violence, so there's a precedent. Thirdly, this episode was not really offensive to Islam in any way.