{"id":1789078,"date":"2022-12-28T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789078"},"modified":"2022-12-28T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T21:49:46","slug":"south-park-episodes-banned-from-hbo-for-depicting-islamic-prophet-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-park-episodes-banned-from-hbo-for-depicting-islamic-prophet-muhammad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSouth Park\u201d HBO bans episodes depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-park-episodes-banned-from-hbo-for-depicting-islamic-prophet-muhammad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"subheading\">Five episodes <em>South Park<\/em> have been banned from HBO Max for depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad, reminding fans that virtually every\u00a0other religion is considered fair game for making fun of \u2014 except for Islam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><em>South Park<\/em>Five episodes of &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; depict Muhammad, and the series began in 1997. \u201cSuper Best Friends,\u201d \u201cCartoon Wars Part I &#038; II,\u201d \u201c200,\u201d And \u201c201,\u201d All of these are missing from HBO Max&#8217;s lineup. <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/south-park-episodes-missing-hbo-max-why\/\">notes<\/a> Screen Rant.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being banned from the streaming service, the episodes are also missing on\u00a0the South Park Studios website, with each episode hit with a \u201ccurrently unavailable\u201d notice.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode \u201cSuper Best Friends\u201d \u2014 which originally aired on July 4, 2001 \u2014 the cartoon character\u00a0Stan calls upon a team of superheroes to counter magician David Blaine\u2019s suicidal cult known as \u201cBlainetology,\u201d Scientology is very clear in this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">The team of superheroes consists of the heads of the world\u2019s most popular religions:\u00a0Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, Joseph Smith, Laozi, and Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>The episodes also feature Muhammad \u201cCartoon Wars Part I &#038; II,\u201d which was originally broadcast in 2006. The episodes are inspired by the controversy surrounding the\u00a0Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published a cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb as his turban in 2005.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In this episode, South Park panics after the show.\u00a0<em>Family Guy<\/em> It announces that it will show Muhammad in its series. Cartman argues that Muhammad&#8217;s depiction is offensive to Muslims. Kyle, however, argues that it will. <em>Family Guy<\/em> episode should be aired as an\u00a0expression of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>These episodes were first aired in 2006. <em>South Park<\/em> creators were reportedly in a feud with\u00a0Comedy Central over depicting Muhammad. Comedy Central ended airing the episodes with a dark title card, rather than the Muhammad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five episodes South Park have been banned from HBO Max for depicting Islamic prophet Muhammad, reminding fans that virtually every\u00a0other religion is considered fair game for making fun of \u2014 except for Islam. 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