From Loonwatch: South Park, the “Four Morons” of Revolution Muslim, and CNN’s Epic Fail provides still more important background to the South Park controversy. Including:
1. The founder of Revolution Muslim (Yusuf al-Khattab born Joseph Cohen) wasn't just a typical young modern secular young adult who happened to be Jewish but he was living in Israel as a Zionist settler and a member of the right-wing Shas party. Then in less than three years he and his family converted to Islam and he went back to the US to found Revolution Muslim.
2. Even in the Muslim world, images of the prophet are not unheard of and the ruling on their impermisability is neither universal nor absolute. (Although it is obviously dominant).
3. The Salman Rushdie Affair was partially exacerbated by political contests between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Similarly the Danish cartoon controversy wasn't just about depicting the prophet but the fact that many of the depictions were caricatures which relied on racist imagery or contained underlying messages which were bigoted towards Muslims. (And hate speech is illegal in much of Europe).
4. Christians have their sacred cows too. For example, the play Corpus Christi which depicted Jeuss as a homosexual has been cancelled several times due to Christian death-threats. And apparently witch hunts are on the upswing in some of the Christian parts of Africa.
1. The founder of Revolution Muslim (Yusuf al-Khattab born Joseph Cohen) wasn't just a typical young modern secular young adult who happened to be Jewish but he was living in Israel as a Zionist settler and a member of the right-wing Shas party. Then in less than three years he and his family converted to Islam and he went back to the US to found Revolution Muslim.
2. Even in the Muslim world, images of the prophet are not unheard of and the ruling on their impermisability is neither universal nor absolute. (Although it is obviously dominant).
3. The Salman Rushdie Affair was partially exacerbated by political contests between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Similarly the Danish cartoon controversy wasn't just about depicting the prophet but the fact that many of the depictions were caricatures which relied on racist imagery or contained underlying messages which were bigoted towards Muslims. (And hate speech is illegal in much of Europe).
4. Christians have their sacred cows too. For example, the play Corpus Christi which depicted Jeuss as a homosexual has been cancelled several times due to Christian death-threats. And apparently witch hunts are on the upswing in some of the Christian parts of Africa.
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