April 24, 2010

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

After Comedy Central caved to threats and censored South Park for its satire of Mohammed, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris declared May 20 to be "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

The group said it wasn't threatening South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh...The website posted the addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California production studio where South Park is made.
The link has additional URLs, and the comments there are well worth reading.

Brava, Molly Norris.
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If Comedy Central doesn't want to show the full episode, they could release the rights to Parker and Stone, who do. But I'm thinking they're too gutless to do even that.

Oh, and where's Obama? He was right there during the Skip Gates affair. Will the press ask him?

1 comment:

Molly said...

Howdy,
I didn't "declare" the day. I made a cartoon of a fictional poster that people took seriously. Thanks.
Molly