CHUP! – Changing Up Pakistan blog, has an informative first-person post by Pakistani writer, Kalsoom, offering his take on Comedy Central's 200th episode of "South Park", which includes an image of the Prophet Mohammad.
I am a Muslim and I am a fan of South Park. To make those terms mutually exclusive is polarizing and frankly, unproductive. Aasif Mandvi over at the Daily Show summarized my sentiment exactly when he said last night, “Yes, it [the depiction] would make me uncomfortable and I can understand people being upset about it…but here’s whats more upsetting. Someone, in the name of a faith that I believe in, threatening another person for doing it.”Kalsoom notes that despite the controversy, the Prophet Muhammad had already appeared in a South Park episode that pre-dated the Danish Cartoon scandal.
Interestingly, this is not the first time South Park has depicted the Prophet Muhammad. In 2001, the show featured several religious figures and Prophets, including Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, and Prophet Muhammad, in an episode entitled, “Super Best Friends.” In the segment, Prophet Muhammad is a super hero with “the powers of flame,” who, when a character says, “Even though people fight and argue over different religions, you guys are actually friends,” he answers, “More than friends, we are super best friends with the desire to fight for justice.”
[The South Park Controversy]
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