"A Virginia man who encouraged the murder of Matt Stone and Trey Parker over an episode of "South Park" that portrayed the Muslim prophet Muhammed dressed as a bear was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday.
"Zachary Chesser had written in multiple Internet posts over a four-month period last year that the South Park creators should "wind up like Theo Van Gogh," who was murdered by a radical Muslim because he objected to the Dutch filmmaker's negative portrayal of Islamic society.
"But Stone and Parker were only a piece of the case against Chesser, who also tried on two occasions to join al-Shabab, a terrorist group in Somalia, and encouraged like-minded people on the Internet to leave suspicious packages in public places in the U.S. so that if and when real bombs were planted they'd go unnoticed.
"Chesser also encouraged violence against cartoonists who were planning to participate in "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day," which was a plan -- that never came to fruition -- created to show support for Parker and Stone and for free speech. He even supplied the necessary contact information for various cartoonists."
This is another case of the media reporting on a Muslim who is out of touch with his own religion. Look it up, it is not forbidden to depict the prophet Muhammad. In fact, Muhammad only said depicting him put him above God, and as a prophet of God, his image should not be shown because it takes attention away from God. Showing his image is idolatry but is not punishable by death.
Perhaps this explains why most Americans are uninformed about the realities of Islam. The media reinforce falsehoods without providing needed context to explain why these kinds of things occur.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110225/us_nm/us_southpark
“The punishment for those who wage war against God and His Prophet, and perpetrate disorders in the land, is to kill or hang them, or have a hand on one side and a foot on the other cut off, or banish them from the land. Such is their disgrace in the world, and in the Hereafter their doom shall be dreadful. But those who repent before they are subdued should know that God is forgiving and kind” (Sura 5:33–34)
ReplyDeleteThe guy probably got the idea from this collection of verses, and he most likely saw this episode of South Park as an "attack" on his prophet.
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ReplyDeleteThis depiction of the prophet is disrespectful, but its not the first time for South Park.. by far. South Park has made fun of God (http://www.weirdspace.dk/SouthPark/God.htm) displaying him as a crazy looking creature. At least the prophet was depicted as being inside the bear costume and not actually THE bear. There are radical Muslims, just like their are radical Christians; although death threats took it to an unnecessary level.
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