In the same interview, Parker added: "What pissed me off about episodes '200' and '201' was that I thought the episodes ended up being really good. That was the decision we needed to make." However, the following South Park episode, '201', a direct continuation of '200', was heavily edited by Comedy Central.ĭoug Herzog, the former head of Comedy Central, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016 why the decision was taken, saying: "We were protecting everyone who works here. The group later reiterated that its message about the South Park episode wasn't intended as a threat, but "a prediction". Van Gogh was a Dutch movie and TV producer who was killed by a radical Islamist back in 2004, following a film he made that criticised the treatment of women in some Islamic societies.
This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them." The New York Times reports that the statement posted on the organisation's website named South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and claimed "they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. South Park isn't synonymous with treading carefully when it comes to its no-holds barred style of comedy, but that can't always be said for the networks and platforms that it broadcasts on.īack in 2010 when season 14's '200' aired, Revolution Muslim, a now-defunct New York-based extremist group, released an ominous statement. Some Muslims believe that depictions of Muhammad or any of the other prophets – for example in images, drawings, statures or cartoons – are a violation of Islamic beliefs. In the Islamic faith, Muhammad was chosen by God to receive his divine revelations and spread the word of the lord.
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