![]() Or perhaps it’s simply because the episode aired way back in July of 2001, in a very different world. Perhaps this is because South Park’s depiction of Mohammed wasn’t negative: The theme of the episode-different religions have different things to recommend them, unless the religion is Scientology-was hardly provocative. 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. ![]() Which is all to say, the “200” scandal rests atop a mountain of contingencies. ![]()
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