Comedy Central aired the episode, the audience laughed, and that was that. No death threats against the creators or the network, no Muslim extremist group blowing up embassies, no major ramifications really at all.
Fast forward to 2006, shortly after the Danish cartoons were published, South Park created another episode about another network showing Muhammad on TV. Their sarcastic solution?
The image of Muhammad in this episode was censored. Think about it- It was fine in 2001, no one even had a second thought about it. 5 years later, it's not ok to say what you want to say anymore? I'm positive the Bill of Rights still applies today, so there should be no encroachment on our freedom of speech. Isn't the point of freedom of speech that we can say what we want to say? Besides, Muslims are the ones who shouldn't be showing Muhammad. What was shown instead of the prophet Muhammad when that part of the episode came up?
Where does this leave our freedom of speech? And what does this mean for Comedy Central?
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http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155214/heads-in-sand
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