The Censorship of Cowards

Since its foray into television, South Park has held nothing sacred. In a single episode in 2001 it poked fun at Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Joseph Smith, Lao-tse and Muhammad.  But in 2006, the show's host, Comedy Central, refused to depict Muhammed and last week, in a follow up episode to the show featuring the religious brat pack, the producers refused to even allow Muhammed's name to be uttered. This most recent act of cowardice came after a Muslim extremist and writer of revolutionmuslim.com suggested the show's writers may be killed for their portrayal of the prophet.

Conservatives and liberals    (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/opinion/26douthat.html) are extremely disappointed and they should be. Why is it ok to widely mock every other religion, cult or fetish but Islam? What have the practitioners of that religion done to entitle themselves to immunity from mockery?  I wish just once, Comedy Central, or any other wimpy media organization would get their heads out of their a**es and call these people's bluff.  You expect this kind of cowering in Europe, but not in America.