Indians Want to #BoycottNetflix as 'Krishna and His Leela' Kicks up Row for Hurting 'Hindu Sentiments'

[zarathustra]

6 minutes ago, dasari4kntr said:

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[nag_mama]

5 minutes ago, zarathustra said:

Sooper comedy movie. Sunil comedy adhurs andulo. Namitha slim and gorgeous in that before she became a baby elephant 

 

[harvey]

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[harvey]

Just now, harvey said:

oka rule pass cheyyali ika nunchi no god names to heros and godess names to heroines ani. Mana desam lo maname minority ayipothunnam. #HindhiGodsMatter

 

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38 minutes ago, nag_mama said:

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[jaglaqq]

‘South Park’ Episode Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning

By Dave Itzkoff

• April 22, 2010
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“South Park,” the Comedy Central series, is an animated show that tries its best to push buttons and the boundaries of free speech by mocking every high-profile target in sight, from Hollywood celebrities to religious figures. But its creators may have gotten more than they bargained for with two recent episodes that satirized the Prophet Muhammad one that elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group based in New York, and one that was censored by the cable network that shows it.

On April 14 Comedy Central broadcast the 200th episode of “South Park,” a cartoon that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have produced for that channel since 1997. In honor of the occasion, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone populated the episode with nearly all the famous people their show has lampooned in its history, including celebrities like Tom Cruise and Barbra Streisand, as well as major religious figures, like Moses, Jesus and Buddha.

Cognizant that Islam forbids the depiction of its holiest prophet, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker showed their “South Park” characters agonizing over how to bring Muhammad to their fictional Colorado town. At first the character said to be Muhammad is confined to a U-Haul trailer, and is heard speaking but is not shown. Later in the episode the character is let out of the trailer, dressed in a bear costume.

The next day the “South Park” episode was criticized by the group Revolution Muslim in a post at its Web site, revolutionmuslim.com. The post, written by a member named Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, said the episode “outright insulted” the prophet, adding: “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. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”

 

Mr. van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker and a critic of religions including Islam, was killed by an Islamic militant in Amsterdam in 2004 after he made a film that discussed the abuse of Muslim women in some Islamic societies.

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'South Park': Five Episodes Kept Off HBO Max

 

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The Comedy Central cartoon moved from Hulu to the newly launched streamer this month.

The entire South Park library is now streaming on HBO Max, except for five episodes that are not available due to the depiction of a religious figure. 

"Super Best Friends" from the fifth season, "Cartoon Wars" parts I and II from the 10th season, and "200" and "201" from the 14th season are all absent from the newly launched streaming service because they depicted a character based on the Prophet Muhammad. 

The absence is not necessarily surprising; the episodes were previously pulled from broadcast and were not available to stream while the series was on Hulu. South Park Studios was on board with the decision; holding the episodes was discussed and agreed upon before Viacom licensed the series to HBO Max last year.

Former Comedy Central head Doug Herzog told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016 that censoring and then pulling "200" and "201" was done as a matter of safety due to threats. "We were protecting everyone who works here. That was the decision we needed to make," he said then. "That was the hardest we've ever pushed back [over the show's content]." 

The plot of that two-parter revolved around the Hall of the Super Best Friends, a superhero organization comprising figures from the world's leading religions, including the Prophet Muhammad (Comedy Central blacked out the character and bleeped his name when "200" and "201" aired).

Show co-creator Trey Parker previously said he was livid over the censorship. "What pissed me off about episodes '200' and '201' was that I thought the episodes ended up being really good," he said. "We were so exhausted by it all, we were like, '** it, just get on to the next episode.'"

In October 2019, HBO Max landed the 23-season library in a deal that was expected to be worth as much as $500 million. South Park was renewed last fall through 2022. 

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South Park censored after threat of fatwa over Muhammad episode

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Extremist group's death warning leads TV network to censor 201st episode, to fans' dismay

Ed Pilkington in New York

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Thu 22 Apr 2010 16.16 EDTFirst published on Thu 22 Apr 2010 16.16 EDT

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 South Park, the animation created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is well known for its satirical attacks. Photograph: Ric Francis/AP

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday 28 April 2010

The article below said that Islam's prophet has featured twice in the series: this year, and in 2006. In fact, Muhammad appeared in 2001, too about a threat against makers of the satirical cartoon series South Park.

 

They have depicted the Queen blowing her brains out after a failed attempt by the British army to reinvade America, Saddam Hussein as Satan's gay lover, and Jesus as a trigger-happy superhero. Mormons, Scientologists, Catholics, Jews, politicians and film stars have all been skewered on the razor-sharp wit of South Park.

Now the caustic animated satire appears to have reached its limits within the confines of mainstream US television. Fans and pundits alike were taken aback last night when an episode featuring the prophet Muhammad purportedly dressed in a bear costume had bleeps and "Censored" blocks slapped liberally throughout to remove all audio and visual reference to the prophet.

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The censorship followed a warning from a New York-based group of extremist Muslim converts that could be construed as a death threat. The group, through its website Revolutionmuslim.com, had reacted to last week's episode of South Park which first depicted Muhammad dressed as a bear by saying its originators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, "will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh".

To underline the point, the website carried a picture of Van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker killed in 2004 after he made a documentary on the abuse of women in Muslim countries, with his throat cut and a knife in his chest. They also listed the New York headquarters of Comedy Central, the cable television channel that broadcasts the show, and South Park's production company, adding: "You can pay them a visit at these addresses."

In the aftermath of the show's censorship, the chatrooms on South Park's website hummed with the indignation of its fans. "Do you seriously think that will appease the extremists from more terrorism?" one wrote.

As controversy raged, Comedy Central confessed that it was responsible for the cuts. "I can't go into the thinking behind it, but I can confirm it was Comedy Central that inserted the bleeps and not South Park," a spokesman for the station said.

The apportioning of responsibility will come as a relief to devotees of the animation, who have grown accustomed to it treating nothing and nobody as sacred.

The Muhammad furore began last week in the show's 200th episode when the creators introduced the character as a riff on censorship. The joke was that Muhammad was dressed as a bear because he could not be shown as a cartoon in the wake of death threats made against Danish cartoonists by Islamist extremists, who see any depiction of Muhammad as a gross insult to their religion.

In the storyline, the prophet was brought into the show on the demand of previous victims of its satire, led by Tom Cruise, who believed that he could make them immune to further ridiculing. In this week's episode, the bear costume was unzipped to reveal that Santa Claus, not Muhammad, had been inside all along.

This was the second time that South Park had taken on the prophet as a subject. In 2006, soon after violent protests erupted against the Danish cartoons, Stone and Parker produced a double episode that featured the prophet and was also censored by Comedy Central.

In that case, however, there was no pickup from Islamist groups. The latest controversy has cast the light on Revolution Muslim, a group of probably fewer than 10 extremists based in New York who hand out leaflets outside the moderate 96th-street mosque.

It was founded by Yousef al-Khattab, a former secular Jew born Joseph Cohen who ran a bicycle pedicab in New York until he relocated to Morocco. He is shown in one photograph on the site carrying a machete with what look like suicide bombs strapped around his waist. The group has a record of making extremist statements, which it tempers with disclaimers that it is nonviolent to avoid legal trouble. One member, Younus Abdullah Muhammad, told CNN last year that the 9/11 attacks had been justified.

At other times, its website has called for wrath to fall "on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine. Please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces."

"Many groups would be afraid to act like this for fear of arrest, but they clearly don't care," said Yehudit Barsky of the American Jewish Committee, which monitors the group.

Revolution Muslim put out a long statement in which it insisted that it was in favour of a rational dialogue with non-Muslims. But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".

Abdullah Muhammad, 30, defended the web posting by his group to Reuters.

"How is that a threat?" he told the news agency. "Showing a case study right there of what happened to another individual who conducted himself in a very similar manner? It's just evidence."

It is not clear whether Parker and Stone will feel the need to show they are unbowed by returning to the Muhammad theme next week. They are famous for putting the show together at the last minute to make it sharply topical.

But the controversy could deepen. Fans of the show on Wednesday posted in chatrooms on South Park's websites several Muhammad cartoons that would be far more offensive to Muslims than the animation itself. They included a drawing of Muhammad crying in a baby's nappy and saying: "Stop it! You hurt my feelings.""

[dasari4kntr]

22 minutes ago, nag_mama said:

 

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[karthikn]

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[tom brady]

34 minutes ago, jaglaqq said:

‘South Park’ Episode Altered After Muslim Group’s Warning

By Dave Itzkoff

• April 22, 2010
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“South Park,” the Comedy Central series, is an animated show that tries its best to push buttons and the boundaries of free speech by mocking every high-profile target in sight, from Hollywood celebrities to religious figures. But its creators may have gotten more than they bargained for with two recent episodes that satirized the Prophet Muhammad one that elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group based in New York, and one that was censored by the cable network that shows it.

On April 14 Comedy Central broadcast the 200th episode of “South Park,” a cartoon that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have produced for that channel since 1997. In honor of the occasion, Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone populated the episode with nearly all the famous people their show has lampooned in its history, including celebrities like Tom Cruise and Barbra Streisand, as well as major religious figures, like Moses, Jesus and Buddha.

Cognizant that Islam forbids the depiction of its holiest prophet, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker showed their “South Park” characters agonizing over how to bring Muhammad to their fictional Colorado town. At first the character said to be Muhammad is confined to a U-Haul trailer, and is heard speaking but is not shown. Later in the episode the character is let out of the trailer, dressed in a bear costume.

The next day the “South Park” episode was criticized by the group Revolution Muslim in a post at its Web site, revolutionmuslim.com. The post, written by a member named Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, said the episode “outright insulted” the prophet, adding: “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. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.”

Mr. van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker and a critic of religions including Islam, was killed by an Islamic militant in Amsterdam in 2004 after he made a film that discussed the abuse of Muslim women in some Islamic societies.

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[dasari4kntr]

42 minutes ago, karthikn said:

ala chesthe nextday g pagal 10g ga..    hindus are soft target.. edo just paper lo cartoon vesinanduku europe ki vachi champesaru thurks 

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[Silverado]

I'm against banning even though I'm bhakt

Firstofall censorship should be banned

[tom brady]

Just now, Silverado said:

I'm against banning even though I'm bhakt

Firstofall censorship should be banned

U r disqualified as a bhakt