NYC South Park Times Square Protest

See our culturist protest about an Islamic attempt to end freedom of speech by BLOWING UP Viacom for showing Muhammed on its cartoon show South Park.

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Chairman Of The Cordoba Initiative Comments On South Park Cartoonifada

From this article in the Washington Post, the words of Faisal Rauf, responding a question about the South Park cartoonifada:

Conflicting cultural norms require respect, restraint

Q: What is the obligation of a Western, democratic government to protect individual freedoms in light of a realistic terrorist threat? Are the producers of South Park right to forfeit their freedom of expression in the interests of protecting their employees? Are the governments of Europe right to ban burqas in the interest of fostering a more open society?

[A:] Your question is about different cultural norms in a shrinking world.

Western culture makes freedom of expression nearly a religious value. It protects the right to say anything, no matter how insensitive or scandalous. Everyone and everything can be insulted.

Many non-Western cultures - not just Muslim - balance freedom of expression with respect for elders, traditions and modesty. The idea of respect and honor to elders is deeply ingrained in their psyches.

When I was a boy in Malaysia, in our play we knew we could insult each other freely. That was a game. But we could never insult each other's parents. Do that, and we were in for a serious fight.

For Muslims, respect for the Prophet Muhammad is much more sacred than respect for elders. In fact, Muslims would not insult Jesus or Moses because they were prophets of God and demand respect.

The same is true on the issue of the burqa, which covers the entire body and face, leaving just a slit for the eyes.

In the Western world now, the right to wear almost anything has become a symbol of freedom. It is an expression of women's equality. In the Muslim world, men and women dress so they are not provocative to one another.

But it is important to note that Islam does not require the burqa, and even bans it on occasion. Muslim women performing their pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, are not allowed to hide their faces. The burqa is a custom of some - but certainly not all -- Muslim cultures. The spirit of the Muslim law is about modesty.

So what is the role of government?

Freedom of expression is the law in the United States. It is something that the government must uphold. But the people who create this insulting material about the Prophet Muhammad should not be naïve. They are digging deeply at the cultural values of huge numbers of people, many of whom now live as law-abiding citizens of the United States.

In this enlightened age, would the producers of South Park insult the values of African Americans?

As to burqas, it is the cultural norm in Belgium and France for women to reveal their faces. It is a cultural norm in Saudi Arabia that they do not. If Muslims support the right of the Saudi government to require Western women in Saudi Arabia to wear abayas that cover their bodies and heads (but not their faces), then Muslims must support the right of the Belgian and French governments to ban the burqa in Belgium and France.

Can we be upset in these times of heightened national security that the Belgians and French want to know who is walking around on their streets? And in these times when sensitivity about religion and respect are at a boil, cannot the arbiters of Western media show a little restraint?

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, an independent, non-partisan and multi-national project that seeks to use religion to improve Muslim-West relations. (www.cordobainitiative.org) He is the author of "What's Right with Islam is What's Right With America."

By Feisal Abdul Rauf | May 5, 2010; 9:48 AM ET

It seems to me that Feisal Abdul Rauf is setting himself up as a Moslem leader here in the United States. Take a look at his bio:

Imam Feisal has appeared regularly at the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum (Davos)....

Read the entire bio.

In my view, this man is more dangerous than all the spokesmen of CAIR put together.

MORE ON THIS EVIL PIECE OF CRAP:

911 Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf Blames Christians: "The US and the West must acknowledge the harm they have done to Muslims before terrorism can end"

RevolutionMuslim.com's Abdullah Muhammad Warns of MORE Attacks

WorldNetDaily has posted an interview in which Younus Abdullah Muhammad of RevolutionMuslim isn't admitting to anything, but warns that Saturday's car bomb attempt in Times Square is "just the beginning".

And FOX is breaking the news that the Obamullah White House is linking the attempted bombing to foreign terrorist activity. (Dahwn breaks ovah Mahblehead, as we say around heah.)

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'Absolutely, there will be more attacks in New York'
Muslim extremist warns America: Times Square just the beginning

Posted: May 02, 2010
8:44 pm Eastern

© 2010 WorldNetDaily


A Muslim extremist who earlier warned that TV's "South Park" creators should be "afraid for their lives" for insulting Islam's prophet Muhammad now says that yesterday's car bomb attempt in Times Square will be just the beginning of a new wave of terrorist attacks.

Younus Abdullah Muhammad, author of RevolutionMuslim.com, told WND senior reporter Aaron Klein on New York's WABC Radio that America should "absolutely" expect more jihadi violence in New York City.

When asked if the Times Square attack was specifically aimed at the offices of nearby Viacom, which owns the "South Park" series, Abdullah Muhammad deflected the question to condemn U.S. foreign policy instead.

"It was a retaliation for what your government is doing overseas," Abdullah Muhammad said. "If you want to continue killing civilians, then you're going to get many incidents that resemble what happened yesterday."

[...]

As WND reported, RevolutionMuslim.com last month warned there is a "very real possibility" that "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone will end up murdered like Theo Van Gogh, the Dutch filmmaker killed by an Islamic extremist in 2004 after making a film critical of Islam.

The website then issued a statement pointing out the Islamic punishment for mocking Muhammad is death, prompting Klein to ask if such words constituted incitement.

"We do not condone nor condemn terrorism," Abdullah Muhammad answered. "There is no relation between our organization and these attacks."

Still, Abdullah Muhammad predicted, "There will be a lot more terror attacks in the Unites States. Probably you should bring your imperial overstretch home before you're destroyed. ... Stop trying to police the world. Nobody likes you people."

There's an audio of the interview at the link.

Jon Stewart, 'South Park' duo tee off on network censorship and Muslim death threats

From Yahoo News:

Last night, Jon Stewart defended his Comedy Central colleagues, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of "South Park," in a 10-minute segment bashing a radical Muslim group for issuing a death threat against the rude-humor duo.

"I say this to anyone who's threatening death in the name of religion or politics," Stewart concluded, standing in front of a gospel choir for the second time this week, before offering his now-trademark bleeped-out sign-off, which begins with "Go" and ends with "yourselves."

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Parker and Stone have issued a statement on the censored South Park Mohammed episode:

In the 14 years we’ve been doing South Park we have never done a show that we
couldn’t stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central
and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn’t some meta-joke on
our part. Comedy Central added the bleeps. In fact, Kyle’s customary final
speech was about intimidation and fear. It didn’t mention Muhammad at all but it
got bleeped too. We’ll be back next week with a whole new show about something
completely different and we’ll see what happens to it.

Well, dayemn