"hard, Edgy, Fearless, Iconoclastic" Comedy Central Cowers in the Face of Muslim Threats.

This is the channel that features Jon Stewart.  Tought talking, "F" bomb trhowing Jon Stewart.  Where the young and the hip get their news.

An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad was shown Wednesday night on Comedy Central with audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED” after a Muslim group warned the show’s creators they could face violence for depicting that holy Islamic prophet. Revolution Muslim, a group based in New York, wrote on its Web site that the “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker “will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh” for an episode shown last week in which a character said to be the Prophet Muhammad was seen wearing a bear costume. Mr. Van Gogh was slain in Amsterdam in 2004 after making a film that discussed the abuse of Muslim women in some Islamic societies.

On Friday, Mark Steyn, who really is fearless, having faced down the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the biggest threat to free speech on the North Amnerican continent, commented on the sickening display of cowardice by the so-called "Comedy Channel" in the face of intimidation by followers of the "Religion of Peace."

This is one reason why I read Kate McMillan. Responding to a reader who points out "if you make joke of prophet Mohamad and draw his picture there is 60% percent some one kill you", Kate writes:


There's the difference between an "extremist" and a "moderate".

The "extremist" is the one with the death threat.

The "moderate" is the one who explains what you've done to deserve it.

And so it goes. Geert Wilders lives under 24-hour armed guard because Muslims want to kill him. But he's the one charged with incitement.

The mainstream media, Yale University Press and Comedy Central now accept that Islamic law applies to believers and infidels alike - at least in terms of representations of Mohammed and tame jokes about him. So what will be the next Islamic prohibition to be universalized? And what makes you think that at Restaurant Sharia you can order à la carte?

At Small Dead Animals:

“By selectively censoring the blasphemers of South Park, these Comedy Central executives have displayed the steadfast conviction to stand up, courageously raise their voices, and beg not to have their heads chopped off. I am delighted to announce that in recognition of their courage, we will kill them last. Unless they are Jews.”

One commenter wrote:

Stupid Comedy Network...stick to making fun of those crazy Tea Klanners, it's safer.

Iowahawk: 

Comedy Central Execs Land Courage Award


NEW YORK -- The programming staff and Standards and Practices department of cable TV's Comedy Central have been named winners of the Al-Fatwahadeen Revolutionary Martyrs Anti-Defamation League's 2010 Anti-Blasphemy Courage Award.

"All too often, infidels in the media industry are cowards when it comes to obeying Islamic law," said League spokesmartyr Khalid Al-Mustapha. "By selectively censoring the blasphemers of South Park, these Comedy Central executives have displayed the steadfast conviction to stand up, courageously raise their voices, and beg not to have their heads chopped off. I am delighted to announce that in recognition of their courage, we will kill them last. Unless they are Jews."

The award, which also carries a basket of baklava and a $5 Target gift card, is scheduled to be given out at a ceremony in the World Trade Center construction hole.

A spokesperson for Comedy Central said, " ."

Even CNN, Even Anderson Cooper is outraged.