"South Park" battle over Scientology heats up - Yahoo! News UK
A storm in a teacup or a symptom of the increase in religious fundamentalism and intolerance?
It seems to me that Isaac Hayes was happy enough to lampoon religion as long as it wasn't his religion which was the butt of the joke.
Did TC use his influence to get the show pulled? I don't know and I'm tempted to say I don't care, but that would be a bad attitude to take to this isue. Why? Because, if true, it is another example of a network censoring their output die to pressure froma minority and that is becomong a big problem.
Other religions - especially minority ones for whom such a stushie can give world-wide exposure - have seen the influence over the media that Islam has gained through the intolerance and threats and they want the same 'respect'. That favourite phrase of the politician, the slippery slope is particularly apt here and the appeasement of Islamic fundamentalists was the top of it. We've come a long way from the days of the Inquisition. Religious fanatics want to see us return to it and we mustn't let it happen.
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