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By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe location of a car packed with explosives in Manhattan's Times Square on Saturday night prompted a New York congressman to wonder if the failed bombing was linked to a recent episode of Comedy Central's "South Park" that depicted the prophet Muhammad. The Nissan Pathfinder's location, at the intersection of 45th Street, Broadway, and Seventh Avenue, was less than a block from the office tower that houses Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central. Last month, Comedy Central made waves by censoring an episode of the irreverent show that mocked Muhammad and other religious figures. The ...
'South Park' Episode Censored After Threat
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsNEW YORK (April 22) -- After a radical Islamic group issued a thinly veiled threat against the creators of "South Park," the network aired an episode with references to and depictions of the Prophet Muhammad blocked out. A note on the show's website said Comedy Central had inserted "numerous additional audio bleeps throughout" the show, adding "we do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show." The episode was the second half of a storyline that began last week with an episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. A day later, a blog post on Revolution ...
How to Make Women's Rights THE Issue of the 21st Century
By Christine Wicker - Politics Daily"The big problem is [how] to define the protection of women's rights as the problem of the 21st century. If the world does that, [women's inequality] will become like the eradication of apartheid -- people will insist that it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong, and that's when change happens."Those words come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali victim of genital mutilation who wrote a screenplay about the mistreatment of Islamic women. Theo van Gogh turned the screenplay into the film "Submission." Two months later he was assassinated. Ali, whose life was threatened, has lived under guard for the past ...
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