[Meanwhile, in America...]
The elite gatekeepers of American pop culture huff and puff about freedom of speech. But when political correctness actually threatens that right, Hollywood's stalwart defenders of free expression are nowhere to be found.
Last night, Comedy Central gave into threats of violence against the creators of the animated sitcom "South Park" and not only censored the image of the Muslim prophet Mohammed -- as it had last week and in one previous episode -- but even censored every verbal mention of the the prophet's name (see the video below the fold).
The decision came days after a radical New York-based Muslim fundamentalist group warned that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the show's creators, would be killed for supposedly mocking Mohammed...
['Hate speech' charges brought against Boy Scouts for setting rules for its membership, but death threats emanating from an organization within our borders are ignored?
If public Islamic intolerance of everything not Islamic, combined with death threats, isn't hate speech, what is? {rhetorical: see above boy scout point} - I.e., where are the charges against suck Muslim 'organizations'?!?]
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