http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-30977,00.html
In light of recent Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, it looks like the Christians have finally jumped on the bandwagon and have started protesting about sacriligious depictions of holy figures in their faith.
personally i think its about time that they woke up to themselves and stopped biting the bullet. maybe the muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons tilted (no pun intended) them into action, but Jesus and his mother had been copping it for the past 2000 years without so much as a whisper in the name of freedom of speech and political correctness. what ever happened to good natured-ness and humility between human beings.
i for one am a big fan of South Park, but they do have a go at the christians in a big way, and although i find it amusing sometimes, its somewhat down right crude and offensive sometimes.
Even as a muslim, i find these depicitions of Jesus and Mary to be offensive, as should all muslims the world over. With Jesus and Mary great figures in islamic ideology, i would hope that muslims would join in and support this protest and find this as offensive if not more offensive than the depiction of Mohammed. hopefully this time the protest of 'Bloody Mary' wont be as 'bloody'
heres the article below....
Angry vigil for 'Bloody Mary'
HUNDREDS of Catholics and supporters held a protest vigil outside a New Zealand television station during its broadcast last night of South Park's controversial Bloody Mary episode.
More than 200,000 viewers watched the program in which a Virgin Mary statue is depicted spurting menstrual blood into the face of the Pope – six times the US animated comedy's usual audience in New Zealand.
SBS Television in Australia has deferred its scheduled March 6 broadcast of the episode because of the worldwide controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
CanWest-owned broadcaster TV Works said it received hundreds of calls and emails before the program was broadcast on its free-to-air youth channel C4, about 85 per cent of them complaining about the episode's broadcast.
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The company provoked the angry reaction after bringing forward the episode's screening from its original May schedule date, saying it wanted the public to make up its own mind about the controversy.
The Mohammed cartoons originally published in Denmark provoked violent protests by Muslims around the globe.
The Catholic Church in New Zealand said it intended to lodge a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
"In a secular society some people are not able to understand the depth of feeling, loyalty and love that others have towards those things that make them who they are – their culture, tradition, their religious faith or nationality," church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said.
"Freedom of speech has to be tempered with responsibility."
A lawyer for the group Catholic Action has written to the Attorney General complaining the episode was blasphemous libel which breached the Crimes Act.
TV Works chief operating officer Rick Friesen said a small number of advertisers had withdrawn their business but none withdrew commercials from last night's episode.
One placard held up by a protester last night said: "If it's good enough for Mary, let's show Rick's mum."
Television reviewers were underwhelmed by the satire of the "Bloody Mary" episode.
Frances Grant wrote in The New Zealand Herald that the show could have made its point without resorting to vulgarity.
"Surely those who should be offended most are the loyal South Park fans who were delivered at best only a mediocre episode," Grant wrote.
Jane Bowron of the Dominion Post wrote: "Watching the deeply unfunny and frankly, boring, episode of Bloody Mary won't have harvested C4 viewers, for the satire wasn't anywhere near clever enough and many of us were left, as Mr Friesen predicted, wondering what all the fuss was about."