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The only thing we can hope for is water under the bridge. As the celebrities and the gingers battle over who gets possession of Mohammed, the Super Best Friends come to Mohammed's rescue. The safety of their employees is their responsibility. With Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mona Marshall, April Stewart. I understand their stance, and I also understand Comedy Central's decision to place the edits. Had Parker and Stone decided to scale back "201", would anyone really blame them? But when you're flying in the face of a small group of very radical people, the risks outweigh the rewards. I'm all for the freedoms of speech, thought and expression - I work at a newspaper. I've watched South Park from the beginning and have loved just about everything Stone and Parker have created - Wall-Mart, Imaginationland, Warcraft, etc. Instead, this screen appears when the episode is accessed: We'll be back next week with a whole new show about something completely different and we'll see what happens to it," Parker and Stone said. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped. "Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part," the creators said in a statement.Īll verbal references to "Muhammad" were covered with a bleep, as was 35 seconds of dialogue toward the end of the episode.īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. "We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. Although Muhammad was not in the bear costume, it turned out to be Santa Claus, the Prophet later showed up in the episode with a censor block covering the depiction. Revolution Muslim said it was not directly threatening Parker and Stone, but warning them of possible repercussions (video below).Įpisode 201, a continuation of last week's episode, aired Wednesday night with controversy. In response, a Muslim group in New York, Revolution Muslim, wrote on its Web site that Stone and Parker "will probably end up like Theo Van Gogh," a director who was killed in 2004 after his 10-minute film "Submission" discussed the abuse of women in some Islamic societies. The episode, entitled "201", followed a week of controversy after show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker aired an episode that made multiple references to the Islam Prophet Muhammad and had him hidden in a giant bear costume. When I sat down to watch South Park's 201st episode this week, I was a little nervous.