‘South Park’ angers Bosnian Muslim leaders

AFP ^ | 08/01/2006

[Panerai]

Sarajevo • Bosnian Islamic leaders voiced anger yesterday after a local television station aired an episode of the popular US cartoon South Park depicting Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him).

“The broadcast (of the cartoon) is unacceptable and we condemn it and consider it to be a kind of provocation,” Enes Ljevakovic, head of a Bosnian Islamic council, said.

“According to Islamic tradition, the presentation of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) or any other prophet is unacceptable ... even if their presentation is not sarcastic but in positive light,” Ljevakovic said.

“The cartoon was even censored in the United States ... and that is what the local Bosnian television station should have done as well,” he added.

OBN defended its decision to air the show, saying the cartoon presented prophets in a positive light that could be considered as a lesson in morality.

Some 40 percent of Bosnia’s 3.8 million inhabitants are Muslims. Orthodox Christian Serbs represent about 31 percent, while Roman Catholic Croats account for around 10 per cent.

[Alkhin]

This hate talk is just contraproductive in my eyes.

this from a person who makes blanket statements about Christianity as a whole without showing evidence that he has any clear understanding of its history. As I pointed out earlier, if the Spanish had a proclivity for tyrannical methods in their religion, they learned it from the Muslims and it was Christianity that gave them the ability to keep it from completely poisoning their existence.

If the Muslims quell at the idea that some of their members are giving the rest of them a bad name, then why aren't they folding in on themselves to put a stop to it? You can darn well expect Christians to do that. One Christian's name was Martin Luther, a man you should be familiar with if you are German.

As a Christian, I dont wish to kill Muslims. I wish to see them coverted...just as they say they want to convert me. The difference...the CHRISTIAN and holy difference between me and them is that I won't hold a sword over their neck. I will consider their search for Truth as a search like my own. Nor have Christians throughout history made it a general practice to do so...unlike the pedophile moon demon the muslims uphold as their ideal right from the very beginning. As I said earlier, you evidence a very very poor understanding of western civilization, as well as the history of the Americas.

[Schweinhund]

Actually, on the Peak of the Moors empire, Jewish and Christian scholars were held in high regard by the Spanish rulers and managed to rediscover much lost knowledge from Rome and Greece. This intolerance is a rather new thing. And the Spanish Inquisition was a purely Christian invention.

The status of dhimmitude was rather a classic second class status for non-muslims in muslim-ruled countries. Much like the status Muslims and Jews had in christian-ruled countries, I just can't remember that we had a name for it. And the existence of dhimmitude shows that the Muslims also didn't employ a convert-or-die mentality...they just treated you worse because you were not enlightened, just like medieval europe treated the Jews worse because they had killed Christ :S

[Aquinasfan]

"They'll go after any religion except Mohammedanism because they're afraid of Mohammedans" - You have no idea what you're talking about.

From the article:

“According to Islamic tradition, the presentation of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) or any other prophet is unacceptable ... even if their presentation is not sarcastic but in positive light,” Ljevakovic said.

[Vision]

NUTS!

[BaBaStooey]

These guys shouldn't go visit the Supreme Court building, then...


I am pretty sure the episode referenced here is the "Super Best Friends" episode, which is from July 4, 2001. TV stations in Eastern Europe are so far behind us, that they are just now finding out who the father of Rachel's baby is.

[phs3]

Did you ever think that "dhimmitude" was established as a justification for slavery? "

Another thing, are you suggesting that we sit around and wait for islam to moderate itself. Are you suicidal or something? Or maybe your just a troll...

[Schweinhund]

> Another thing, are you suggesting that we sit around and wait for islam to moderate itself.

Read my post again, it's really not that hard to understand, is it?

[Schweinhund]

> Did you ever think that "dhimmitude" was established as a justification for slavery?

IMHO it was a status for persons in an occupied country, not very different to the status of non-Romans in the Roman empire. The real effects of the status were effectively dependent on the momentary ruler of the Empire. Later on, you also had to convert to Christianity to be someone in Rome.

[oyez]

Peace on him.

[Old_Mil]

I'm just fed up with people here underlining the perversion of Islam as a whole from the start when obviously the Christian church needed centuries to overcome most of their flaws.

Your premise is incorrect; Christianity is a religion that was most purely practiced within the first few hundred years of its existence. The flaws of Christianity have resulted from men placing a human scaffold around its divine truths...the flaws of Islam are written into the book.

[siunevada]

The cartoon was not censored.

Yes, I understand that. Apparently the intellectual giants that originally made the comment didn't actually see the cartoon before expressing their indignation. What a surprise. So unlike them.

[Schweinhund]

The flaws of Christianity have resulted from men placing a human scaffold around its divine truths. Agreed...I was always hoping I'd get around reading the Q'ran. I thought, the Bible, the Mormon Bible, the Tao te King and books dealing with Buddhism were enough. But it looks like I won't get around reading this one also.

[JCEccles]

I acknowledge that Western society learned somewhat quicker and as a result seriously restrained the influence of God's earthly arm in politics,

Yeah. Let's emulate the social Darwinist atheists instead. /sarc How many did they murder in the 20th Century alone? 200 million?

That's a conservative number.

I'll take God over Allah and Darwin any day.

[Old_Mil]

Agreed...I was always hoping I'd get around reading the Q'ran. I thought, the Bible, the Mormon Bible, the Tao te King and books dealing with Buddhism were enough. But it looks like I won't get around reading this one also.

I'm not sure if you've had a chance to read "Meine Kampf"...but if you have, you can probably skip the Koran.

[Old_Mil]

I'll take God over Allah and Darwin any day.

You know, your statement made me remember something. I watched United 93 this weekend (awesome movie if anyone hasn't seen it yet)... Anyway, in different portions of the movie it shows the Muslim hijackers praying to Allah. However, all the subtitles translate Allah as "God". Isn't it curious that when Muslims are engaging in jihad, they want to translate Allah as God...but when Muslims are attempting to do something religious that doesn't involve killing the infidel, that they always use Allah even if they are speaking in English?

I couldn't help but notice that small bit of political correctness.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"I remembered it as "Praise be upon him"....(but my memory ain't what it used to be)"
I thought it was "Penises Be Up Him"

[Schweinhund]

Mein Reich ist nicht von dieser Welt;

My kingdom is not of this world;

wäre mein Reich von dieser Welt,

if my kingdom were of this world

meine Diener würden darob kämpfen,

then my servants would fight

dass ich den Jüden nicht überantwortet würde;

so that I should not be handed over to the Jews;

aber nun ist mein Reich nicht von dannen.

but now my kingdom is not from here.

I trust in God, not in man. God's kingdom on earth will never be built but by Himself after the judgement. If some body earthly pretends to build his kingdom, prepare for injustice, perversion, slaughter. SS belt-buckles had the inscription "Gott Mit Uns".

[HairOfTheDog]

Everyone is running on the assumption that the episode they are talking about is the very controversial episode run last year that was about censorship of Muhammad. I highly doubt it. They never would have said this "... even if their presentation is not sarcastic but in positive light" about that episode.

I'd bet my dog the episode that aired there was Super Best Friends, a spoof on the "Superfriends cartoon of my childhood, featuring as the superheros, all the world's major religious figures. It depicted an uncensored Muhammad years ago.... before it was a 'big deal'.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

And the Spanish Inquisition was a purely Christian invention.

It was purely a political invention of Ferdinand and Isabelle

[Schweinhund]

Yeah right, "Deus Lo Vult" always comes out of a human mouth.