Posted on 05/02/2010 7:09:39 AM PDT by kristinn
Police in New York are investigating whether a car bomb in Times Square was targeted on the makers of South Park over a controversial depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.
The device, which failed to detonate, was left near the offices of Viacom, which owns the irreverent cartoon series.
Last month postings on an Islamic website warned the creators of South Park - Matt Stone and Trey Parker - that they could face violent reprisals after an episode of the show featured Muhammad in a bear suit.
A posting on the website of a US-based group called Revolution Muslim warned Stone and Parker that they would “probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh”, the Dutch film-maker who was murdered in 2004 by a Muslim angered by his film about Muslim women.
Images of the Prophet are strictly forbidden in Islam, and in 2006 Comedy Central, which broadcasts South Park, banned Stone and Parker from depicting Muhammad in an episode which followed worldwide protests over a caricature of the Prophet by a Danish cartoonist.
Detectives are also understood to be investigating striking similarities between the New York bomb and two car bombs planted by Islamic terrorists outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London in 2007.
In both cases, the devices comprised cylinders of propane gas and cans full of petrol intended to be ignited by electronic detonators.
SNIP
Bilal Abdulla, an NHS doctor from Iraq, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008 after being found guilty of plotting the failed Tiger Tiger bombings.
His accomplice, Kafeel Ahmed, died after driving an explosive-packed Jeep into Glasgow Airport the day after the attempted bombings in London.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I think it is time everyone who loved FREEDOM to dress up as Mohammed in a bear suit.
Leave it to the Telegraph to make Evan Coleman look like the braying jackass he is.
But I thought that the journalistic icon MSNBC had already announced it was caused by Right Wingers? /sarcasm
I guess not only right-wingers can make less sophisticated bombs after all.
Knee-jerk MSNBC was so eager to portray the right-wing as a bunch of rustic morons that once again they proved they are not a news organization but a propaganda outlet.
Maybe it was The Simpsons.....or Bugs Bunny....or The Flintstones.
I sense a new South Park episode on this story.....
It was the Family Guy, I just know it was!
Bloomberg: “The bomb squad confirmed that the suspicious vehicle did contain an explosive device. We have no idea who did this or why.”
“President Barack Obama praised the quick response by the New York Police Department and said the federal government was prepared to provide support.”
Well, let’s see, Mayor. Could it be the same folks who flew a couple of airliners into the WTC? Do you even remember that day?
And notice how quickly Obozo snuck into the spotlight on this one, even though it was an alert Viet Nam vet who first noticed something was wrong here and blew the whistle? If the federal government was as wonderful as he claims, they might have already been watching the radicals who were targeting Viacom. But no. That would be profiling. And that’s BAD!
It’s pretty obvious that the citizen government our founders envisioned has devolved into nothing more than a gaggle of primping and preening self-annointed narcissists.
Man, November can’t come soon enough for me...
This is what they’ve got? Pathetic.
Matt and Trey are going to have a field day with this. The Islamic faith is a little too uptight, if you ask me.
Thank God for British journalism.
God knows our journalist are , as we speak, trying to twist and turn this story to point the blame at us somehow. If it is a Muzzie then the story will be on page 200 by Monday.
Hakim’s razor - it was Wiley Coyote not South Park.
Glen Beck’s studio is there as well I believe.
These mussies get their panties all in knots over a flippin’ cartoon, but beheading someone is like a day at the office.... Our country is asleep at the wheel in many things.
All of you a$$holes that voted for this pos and his regime... YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF THE STATE!
LLS
I just hope it isn't too late for our pacifist society to wake up, and understand that we have to destroy them first.
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