124 / Free speech, Islam & South Park collide
What value free speech when a radical Muslim group in America can move Comedy Central to self-censorship?
My God, not Comedy Central … has it come to that? Apparently so, as the SMH reports. There is something disturbing, sad, infuriating about religious groups being able to impose their 'blasphemy' agenda on us.
As it is said in the article, the network has potentially empowered other extremists by how it had chosen to handle the situation: "The consequence of this position is that the thugs (an extremist splinter group had threatened the producers) win and people have more incentive to be thugs."