Reply #4: Is There Really a Fatwa Against the South Park Guys?

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"If you're asking whether South Park creators Matt Stone or Trey Parker have Salman Rushdie-style targets on their backs that will require them to flee to some stylish European getaway for the next decade, the answer is probably not.

Yes, there was a recent episode that featured Tom Cruise demanding the town of South Park produce the prophet Mohammed, who then arrives in a bear costume. Yes, there was also a shady warning directed at the South Park guys that looked pretty cowardly, and it went like this:

"We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them."

Theo Van Gogh was a Dutch director who was murdered by Muslim extremists after shooting a film about women in Islam. The website that aired the above "warning," Revolution Muslim, has since removed the language; when I tried to access it today, it appeared to be down altogether."

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""This is some extreme—and I would repeat the word extreme two or three times—fringe group that's making a name for itself issuing bizarre statements," Ibrahim Hooper of the Council of American-Islam relations, tells me.

"This group that made this statement has no credibility in Muslim community."

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