South Park creators threatened over depiction of Mohammed
April 20, 2010 11:20 am
There are few certainties in life, but you can always count on: 1) death is inevitable, 2) you will always have to pay taxes, and 3) Muslims will always flip the fuck out if you depict their prophet, no matter how innocent it is. Case in point: Matt Stone and Trey Parker are again the subject of controversy for their 200th episode, which featured Mohammed in a Bear suit to hide his identity. As you might have guessed, Muslim groups are up in arms over the depiction, and have issued (as is customary) threats of violence against the animators.
We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.
Actually, that sounds like a pretty serious threat, especially when the site entices people to actually show up at their house to “voice” their displeasure (or featuring audio clips of a mullah advocating the killing of blasphemers). How about you chill the fuck out instead, assholes? So sorry that you can’t stand the idea of people making fun of your religion, but unfortunately for you, no one has the right to not be offended. If you don’t like it, might I suggest moving back to a country where blasphemy is punished as barbarically as it was 300 years ago (perhaps Saudi Arabia is more to your liking)?
Religion of peace my ass.
**NOTE** Here’s Anderson Cooper’s take on this:
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63 Comments
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April 20, 2010
Sigh… more passive agressive bullshit.
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April 20, 2010
Maybe Muslims would be less offended if they put him in a more historically accurate bear costume… like a pedo bear outfit.
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April 20, 2010
“Always have to pay the taxes”. Check out the Zeitgeist Movement!
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April 20, 2010
LOL a pedobear costume would have been awesome.
I have no doubt that matt stone and trey parker will show muhammad, they did it before in their “super best friends” episode, without any controversy.
But when they tried to do it again in their “cartoon wars” episode,(which aired after the danish comics)comedy central censored them, not because they wanted to be respectful to muslims, but because they didn’t want to get killed.
So I think the same thing will happen, comedy central will probably censor them, because the ‘muhammad goo’ is too strong.
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April 20, 2010
The media should take these idiots head-on: depict the prophet at EVERY opportunity — and expose these nut-cases for who they are… Insane idiots who blindly follow irrational non-sense.
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April 20, 2010
O.k. This has nothing to do with this article, but Jacob’s lecture is up on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJMBXb28qo&playnext_from=TL&videos=LmiiNzX1tYY
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April 20, 2010
watching the lecture as i write this thenks for posting that
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April 20, 2010
I love how the episode didn’t even make fun of Mohammed, but mocked those who obsess over his appearance. That expectation was promptly fulfilled.
You should republish the Danish Mohammad cartoons.
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April 21, 2010
Getting one’s undergarments in a wad over a silly picture of your prophet is IN ITSELF idolatry… It makes an image more important than the message[!?], y’know?
Still, it’s the muslim fundies raising the ruckus. Most might not care. I’d be curious to see a reliable poll/study. Moderate, average views aren’t usually headline material.
…and Jacob, the “If you don’t like it, then you can move back to ” statement is a hackneyed response, better left to the close-minded and/or ignorant. Perhaps i missed the irony? Thanks again for airing a lot of dirty laundry.
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April 21, 2010
There was a “protest” by moderate Muslims against terrorism in Chicago. A whole 50 moderate Muslims showed up …. who later received death threats form other Muslims.
The majority of Muslims may not be willing to strap bombs to themselves, but they certainly seem willing to support those who will.
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April 21, 2010
If they kill the makers of south park I will personally kill every Muslim with my bear hands. And I mean bear, not bare.
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April 21, 2010
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, you are my heroes. As Kyle said in another episode: Muslims can’t depict the prophet Mohammed, I can depict whatever the fuck I want.
Freedom of speech is at stake here, don’t you all see? If anything, we should all make cartoons of Muhammad, and show the terrorists and the extremists that we are all united in the belief that every person has a right to say what they want! Look, people, it’s been real easy for us to stand up for free speech lately. For the past few decades we haven’t had to risk anything to defend it. But those times are going to come! And one of those times is right now. And if we aren’t willing to risk what we have, then we just believe in free speech, but we don’t defend it!
(from South Park, Season 10, Episode 03, Cartoon Wars)
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April 21, 2010
I have been saying for several years that we are already in WW III, It is going to be the Muslim extremists against everyone else. The extremists will eventually drag the “moderate” Muslims onto their side.
The military, as usual, is preparing to fight the last war instead of this one. The problem they face is that there is no territory to occupy, no country to defeat, no specific enemy to identify.
The lessons of history are always lost on politicians and the military. They forget how it was impossible for the British to defeat the Americans in 1776. Or for anyone to stop Castro in 1959. Nor for the French or the Americans to defeat the Vietnamese.
Guerrilla war isn’t about winning for the “insurgents”, It’s about not losing and being lucky at least some of the time. The “superior” establishment has to be lucky every time. The IRA knows this and so do the Islamic forces.
This conflict will only end when one side or the other is all dead. They may be a “truce” sometimes while the Jihads regroup, recruit, and rearm, but the conflict will not end.
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April 21, 2010
I love the fact it isn’t even a physical depiction of the prophet – it is 1) A CENSORED BAR. 2) a voice in a u-haul truck and 3) a Giant Mascot costume. All for the sole purpose that THE TOWN DOESN’T GET BOMBED by Muslims.
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April 21, 2010
seriously, i cant stand this crap. we cant just stop doing something just because a group of people might hurt us for it. if they cant tolerate stuff like this then they need to go back to Arabia and stay gone and be entertained by their own kind of entertainment. we are a people who need to have the opportunity to be able to say what ever we like to say and show what ever we like to show, it’s as simple as that.
I hope Tray Parker and Matt Stone don’t submit to these extremists.
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April 22, 2010
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They will have to kill me too.
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April 22, 2010
I listened to an interview with Terry Gross on NPR with Tray and Matt not so long ago, and they expressed disappointment that they have not yet received attention from extremists. This isn’t exactly the first time they’ve shown Mohammad in their cartoons – as a matter of fact, I believe he appears in the opening credits.
They got their attention and I’m sure they’re drawing up a script to mock it as this conversation carries on. *Their* dust will never settle either – go Tray and Matt!
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April 22, 2010
Understand a religion before discussing it. It’s a large tenet of Islam that it’s blasphemy to depict the prophet. They’re not upset because they’re oversensitive; it’s a sin to them. It’s why if you look at Islamic art, there isn’t even PEOPLE depicted. Like in the Hebrew bible, it’s considered an affront to the creations of God to depict anything he’s made; which to them, is everything ever.
I disagree with religious extremism as much as anyone here, but try to actually do your research, because otherwise you come off as a moron.
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April 22, 2010
Love how they don’t give a shit about Jesus.
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April 22, 2010
The prophet mohammed (lower case on purpose) is a faggot anyway. hope lots of you muslim extremists read this.
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April 22, 2010
fuckin sand niggers. Just as bad as those fucking christfags and kykes
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April 22, 2010
I send an email to Comedy Central thelling them why they are wrong. I would encourage everyone else to do the same: http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml
Also if any one know of or starts a “pictures of mohammed” group I would totally join that.
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April 23, 2010
Emily, we understand why they get mad. It’s blasphemy for them to depict Mohammed. But I’m not Muslim, so why does it matter if I do it?
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April 23, 2010
Yeah Emily I’m going to have to agree with Sam here, I think you’ve somewhat missed the point of this argument. I would hope everyone here is fully aware why the Muslim extremists feel the way they do, the point is we aren’t Muslim, so we shouldn’t feel obligated to care. Anymore than we should care that Jews don’t eat pork, and that many Christians and Catholics don’t agree with gay marriage. Don’t like it, don’t partake in it, and shut the hell up.
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April 23, 2010
Fuck yes anon. People need to stop using religion as a reason for morals, war, and oppression. I don’t care what your beliefs are just entitle everyone to their own opinion. All we are is some crazy ass monkeys, and we’ll stay that way if fucknuts like this don’t grow the hell up. If we are ever going to be more ppl need to fucking chill out. The reason most comedy is funny is because its controversial and against societal norms.Again crazy monkeys…
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April 23, 2010
God damned sand niggers. Seriously, they didn’t show Muhammad, so shut the fuck up! Muslims are so stupid, they pass Christians in stupidity. Now that is retarded!
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April 23, 2010
ATHEIST LIBERATION FRONT
Agnostics, non-religious, and other may also apply.
REJECT ALL THINGS religious in nature.
CONDEMN ALL arguments based on bronze aged principles.
FIGHT BACK ALL hate and bigotry thrown our way by the “faithful”.ONLY TOGETHER can we prevent another terrible journey into what can only be seen as the DARKEST of all the dark ages coming upon us.
Remember too folks to not let the ugliness, lies, and open hostilities of islam blind you to the fact that ALL the major religions are bullshit!
Arrest the pope!
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April 23, 2010
It is pretty sad when a group inside the US can threaten with death a group of American Citizens… and that group are supporters of terrorism.
I think that group should be rounded up and put on trial for an ACT OF TERRORISM! Doesn’t anyone have a brain around here??? That is what Matt and Trey were trying to point out! These people do not have a right to threaten people with DEATH for saying anything!!! AND what in the hell are they doing living in MY COUNTRY???
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April 23, 2010
I resent your comment “religion of peace my ass”. 99% of Muslims won’t give a shit that South Park ironised the Mohammad scandals of the past. Don’t be such a fucking American.
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April 23, 2010
Well Matthew could you please point us toward the websites/blogs/news reports of all those 99% of Muslims who are willing to stand up against those calling for violence in the name of the pedophile Mohammed?
I do not remember any counter protest over the rioting that took place when the Danish cartoons where published. I only remember religious leaders of multiple faiths condemning blasphemy … perhaps the only truly victimless crimes.
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April 23, 2010
Matt and Trey have been putting Muhammad in each episode this season. RIght as the intro ends and everyone is waving, he is next to Scott Tenorman on the right side of the screen.
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April 23, 2010
How long will it be before we take the people who hate the west so much and CHUCK THEM OUT.
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April 24, 2010
at least the site was removed for now. The youtube channel is still up though. Why haven’t people flagged the shit out of the channel and had it removed aswell? Youtube has no problem taking down pro-atheist channels that do no real harm other than offend when people flag THEM.
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April 24, 2010
If anything, I think Buddhists have the most right to be pissed, as Buddha was shown snorting lines of coke, certainly the most blasphemous event in the two-episode story. Yet, to my knowledge there have been 0 Buddhist threats on their life. I think they knew they could take Buddha to the extreme because Buddhists are generally extremely peaceful. That should be an example to people of all religions. If you’re secure in your beliefs and opinions, you should let others have their own ideas.
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April 25, 2010
We should all unite together against the extremist Muslims, draw pictures of Muhammed and whatever to show we are not afraid of them!
They are cockroaches.
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April 26, 2010
Fuck the ragheads!
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April 26, 2010
Its all entertainment. that is all folks
so stumble! the fuck along
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April 26, 2010
Well Jake, Looks like you are getting some stick for this one. I think the wording is a little emotional but see no real issues with the post. I would be pissed as well. Do you often have other bloggers writing about your ignorance? I have to say that the whole fuck off somewhere else is perfectly legitimate. If you have a problem with what we do, then don’t hang around. But it does have a slight smell of the type of rants football hooligans would have in their racist songs. The issue with; cant take us ripping on your religion… well yea the other blog is rite, this is not officially the issue. But i don’t think it is. I think part of the reason no Muslim bring this shit up is because they would rather we did not take the piss anyway.
Like i said. Could have been worded better… simply for your intellectual integrity, but no big deal.
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April 26, 2010
it’s case IN point, dumbass
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April 26, 2010
Emily: “They’re not upset because they’re oversensitive; it’s a sin to them.”
It’s a sin for Jewish people to eat pork, yet I had a ham sandwich for lunch. You don’t see my Jewish friend threatening to kill me.
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April 26, 2010
WOW how dumb are all you MUSLIMS , if you watched the whole episode its santa clause in the coustume lmao you guys are real dumb
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April 26, 2010
i am sorry i was rude
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April 28, 2010
@Emily: Actually there are plenty of depictions of Mohammed (in the 7th and 8th centuries) from before the Caliphate took power and began censoring previous depictions, and forbidding any further ones. Mohammed, and other prophets like Jesus, are depicted with fire around their heads, a sign of holiness and the Muslim equivolent of the halo seen in most christian art. It is actually pretty hilarious that Comedy Central censored the episode, since the message at the end was that there is no real way to prevent people from mocking anyone they want, super ironic.
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April 28, 2010
To All YOU IGNORANT MISINFORMED POOR SOULS; Sincerely stop and think!! the Prophet Muhammad (upon him be Peace and Blessings) said that every household will hear his name – hear of him- and will be questioned by OUR Creator regarding that, who was he? Try find out how your society will be better if you adopted his path and the path of ALL the PROPHETS OF ALLAH.
Muslims respect Jesus more than you we hate to see him depicted. period.
The Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings upon him) said that none of you truly believe until he is more beloved to you than your own selves. Now step back and think if a Muslim has submitted to Allah and to his Prophet and that Prophet is dearer to him than his own self – then don’t you think he (a Muslim) would be upset??? Sure as hell there is something in each one of you that would upset you even a Buddhist! Why do you insist insulting other people who dont share YOUR way of thinking!! Come on people wake up – RESPECT each other – The only reason Muslims are perceived as intolerant is due to their objection of all false beliefs – however they ruled JUSTLY – do your research they even ruled parts of SPAIN for hundreds of years in peace with Jews and Christians.Stop provoking, start searching. Who was Muhammad? was he really a Prophet? or was he a mad man or poet as his peers thought him? Is the Quran Gods WORD? Is it possible that this man wanted Gambling, Drinking, Fornication to cease so Society could be F’d up, or is it a better assumption to say that he wished MANKIND could recognise their Creator and be RESPONSIBLE on earth. LAND and RESOURCES are what you fight for – A Muslim fights for Allah to be recognised and true Justice to be established, by any means and I believe like many Muslims, like Muhammad (peace and blessing upon him) that the PEN is mightier than the sword.
Peace is attainable – although battles do have to be fought – and the bigger fight is KNOWLEDGE.
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April 28, 2010
Those that offer violence receive NO respect. Screw the pedophile Muhammad. He is unworthy of licking the dog shit from my bootheels
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April 28, 2010
Muslims are entitled to no special protection in a democracy; If they want to live in a world where pictures and music are forbidden and where they demand the right to murder their wives and daughters for speaking to men then they should go back to whatever hellhole they first crawled out of and leave the rest of us alone.
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April 28, 2010
it just makes me laff that the entire episode is about freedom of speech and the fact that matt and trey get threatend for trying to provide the world with freedom of speech, muslims blame cartoons like south park for racism, but i have too say they create the racism far more than south park because now there will be people sitting there like “what the fuck they cant come here and do that!” and start hating them. i wonder if the poor bastard who wrote the quran new what he was doing to the world.
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April 30, 2010
Come on now, these are few radical Muslims that are upset about this. This is news making news.
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April 30, 2010
and these comments are terrible. Listen to yourselves.
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May 12, 2010
I started a Facebook group about it. Go join I think I left the link to it in this post
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May 12, 2010
To be honest I’m more offended of the censorship and so should be everyone else. This is not Freedom of speech. Also the fact they have all of the other deities depicted on the CARTOON, It is my opinion the weakest of the religions of course would protest something so petty. I laugh at their silly religion even more!ahhahahahhahah! pathetic fools.
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May 14, 2010
@Respect: What the hell? Do you think we haven’t looked at the claims of Mo’? (Peace on his name? What is that, a majik incantation?) The claims of Islam are FALSE. The religion, like all others, is a LIE. The fact that you have to throw in bullshit majik phrases when you write about Pedo-Mo’ and Allah (as in Allah my brains fell out and I can’t think for myself) proves that your mind is no longer in use.
I’m not saying anything against Islam because I hate mulsims…but because I HATE religion and what it makes of people like you.
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May 15, 2010
“we can speak whatever is in our hearts or in our minds as long as i doesnt threaten someone else, calls for violence” now im not supporting violence, but i dont remember that clause in the bill of rights. fuck you Anderson Cooper.
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May 16, 2010
Everybody Draw Muhammad Day, May 20. Get out your pencils and your crayons kids. This is gonna be fun!
@Respect
Respect people’s *rights*, not their ideas. Get that or get the fuck out. Welcome to the free world.
@ Boobie Joe: “Come on now, these are few radical Muslims that are upset about this.”
Bullshit. Absolute, totally unsupportable bullshit. And that’s not even the point. You really want religions to have the right to censor you through bully tactics? Really? Don’t believe in freedom of speech then, huh?
“and these comments are terrible. Listen to yourselves.”
Go whine to your mama, you little pansy. This is the Internet, not Care Bears Academy. What’s more terrible, name calling, or death threats? You’ve got no sense of perspective, retard.
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May 16, 2010
“Stop provoking, start searching.”
Fuck you, you presumptuous, ignorant prick.
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June 1, 2010
What a wonderful day! Raghead #3 and his raghead family gone.Thank allah for drones.
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July 19, 2010
Freedom of speech only goes so far… until you start ‘speeching’ about religion, eh?
I like how some muslim people are defensively saying they respect jesus. This, of course, is a fact and jesus is a fairly important figure in islam.
My only thing is, what are they defending against? The people who make this show respect jesus too and he’s depicted on this show all the time. These reactions to mohammed being portrayed in anything and in any way are insane. And really only work to make islam seem harsh and childish.
“No, you can’t talk about him ever! No, no, no, no, NO! Bwaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!”
Also, I should probably mention that preaching about jesus and mohammed in a thread on an aethiest website… doesn’t have much pull. Sorry.
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August 1, 2010
Hi,
I want to say first that I like your website and it amuses me to no end. Second, I am a Muslim. I get really tired of reading all the comments that have absolutely no basis in reality. If you all would like to make fun of Muslims and or islam at least do it about things that are factual All you talk about are the same old boring and incorrect things. So, rather than telling the world that you may be intelligent but when it comes to Islam, you are very silly possibly borderline retarded. I could give you lots of things to make fun of if you asked.If you are content with making the same illgical arguments based on a plethora of false premises AND being laughed at by us then by all means continue…
Sisyphus in Hijab
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August 5, 2010
Oh, gee, Cali!
Thank you so much for giving us a safe list of guidelines to ridicule. I feel so free to know that I can contain my thoughts in this box that helps me clearly outline what I can and cannot say.
Just thank you. Thank you. Now go eat some bananas, they’re supposed to be good for your brain or something.
PS: it’s not incorrect or boring that mohammed was a pedophile as are the majority of islamic men in most of the muslim-majority countries. Or maybe you could try to argue against all of the 8 year old girls being married off to 30+ men. I’m sure NONE of them are forced into sex and occasionally get pregnant before reaching an adult age.
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August 15, 2010
You’re talking about actions. If the ACTIONS taken at the mosque violate the law, they should be punished. At this point, “conservatives” want the government to restrict speech. That’s wrong, and it will backfire.
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September 12, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeUi9TPY5U&feature=related
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September 12, 2010
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December 22, 2010
People should not be so closed minded, the truth is all those who dont understand islam call it mindless follwoing but if they bothered to use their brains for one minute and do the intelligent thing they would see that its not that at all but its the right path. so dont talk about what you dont know about. and dont say yea i read this or seeb this on the news coz its not always true as am sure alot of poepl are aware.
Those you dimiss stuff without knowing about it are silly
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