'South Park' creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet | BonitaNews.com
‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet | BonitaNews.com
‘South Park’ creators banned from showing image of Islamic prophet
By By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press
Friday, April 14, 2006
Banned by Comedy Central from showing an image of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the creators of “South Park†skewered their own network for hypocrisy in the cartoon’s most recent episode.
The comedy — in an episode aired during Holy Week for Christians — instead featured an image of Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag.
In an elaborately constructed two-part episode of their Peabody Award-winning cartoon, “South Park†creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker intended to comment on the controversy created by a Danish newspaper’s publishing of caricatures of Muhammad. Muslims consider any physical representation of their prophet to be blasphemous.