We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show."Ĭomedy Central confirmed they added additional bleeps to the show than what was in the original cut. "After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. There was however, this message from the creators: On Wednesday night the episode continued the storyline of Mohammed in part II of the episode– but it aired with additional audio bleeps and image blocks reading “CENSORED." They also didn't have the episode streaming on their Web site. The group posted on its website a video filled with reminders of what fundamentalist Muslims did to those who in their eyes “insulted” their prophet. The "South Park" episode showing Mohammed disguised in a bear suit earned the show creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker a jihadist campaign and a serious warning from a radical Islamic group based in New York City. Being Muslim himself, al-Akkad directed his entire film with extreme sensitivity building the character of the prophet around the wind or the light so it’s a presence that is felt or experienced but not seen.
The most famous of those depictions is the classic Hollywood movie ‘The Message’ by Mustafa al-Akkad about the life of Prophet Mohammed. Since his followers insist on him not being shown in any form, producers have always struggled with ways to include Mohammed in story lines without showing him. The depiction was the show authors’ sarcastic attempt to highlight media’s uneasy dealing with the father of Islam as not to offend Muslims who consider any depiction of their prophet as blasphemous.
What the young man (he prefers to remain anonymous) found disgusting was the depiction of Islam’s revered Prophet Mohammed as a bear mascot in "South Park’s" 200th episode. He told his colleague, Lebanese blogger Bilal el-Houri, as he walked away from the screening, “This is disgusting.”
It took seven minutes of a "South Park" episode to change a devout Muslim’s features from an entertained smile to complete disapproval. A message on the "South Park" website explaining why the second part of an episode involving Mohammed can't be streamed online yet.