What’s funny, of course, is that when South Park first featured a cartoon depiction of Mohammed back in its fifth season, not a whisper of scandal ensued. If there is one absolute here, it is the precedent of violence both real and intimated-the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, to which Revolution Muslim alluded in its original post the deaths of more than a hundred people protesting the Danish cartoons throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa and the threats that sent several of these cartoonists into hiding. It didn't mention Muhammad at all but it got bleeped too.Which is all to say, the “200” scandal rests atop a mountain of contingencies.
In fact, Kyle's customary final speech was about intimidation and fear.
We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central and they made a determination to alter the episode. Parker and Stone reportedly received death threats in response to the episodes.Ĭomedy Central also censored "201," which at the time prompted Parker and Stone to slam the network: "In the 14 years we've been doing South Park we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revisited the subject of censorship in episodes "200" and "201," the latter being deemed particularly incendiary and which saw Comedy Central beefing up security around their offices. These episodes were produced following the protests and violence sparked by Danish newspaper cartoon depictions of Muhammad, as well as the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim man who objected to van Gogh's short film Submission: Part 1. The episodes explored the themes of censorship, free speech, and fear, but were also censored by Comedy Central to remove any on-screen depictions or mentions of Muhammad. South Park then explored, in its own very meta way, the furor over depicting the prophet in the two-parter "Cartoon Wars," which chronicled the uproar over a cartoon's (in this case, Family Guy) attempt to broadcast an uncensored version of the Prophet Muhammad. In IGN's "Super Best Friends" review, we said, "While this isn't one of South Park's best episodes of all time, it stands out because of the sheer audacity of incorporating just about all of the world's major religions in one silly joke." Even so, the episode aired without much controversy in 2005 and was only censored in later years. "Super Best Friends" portrayed a superhero team made up of religious figures such as Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, and Muhammad, the latter being strictly prohibited from being figuratively depicted in Islam.
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