South Park Muhammad Cartoon

The makers of South Park have recently received death threat from radical Islamists on www.radicalislamists.com. The Comedy Central show “South Park” has been one of controversy for a long time, and has been criticized on several occasions for its mocking of social problems, celebrates, religions, and world issues. But, it is unusual for the show to receive deaths that state "they will die like Theo Van Gogh" (Danish director brutal murdered for making a movie critical of Islam). The members and makers of the website claim that they were not sending a death threat but, a warning of would happen to the makers of South Park in the future. The Prophet Muhammad, who appears in South Parks 200th episode, was in fact censored due to the fact that it is blasphemy to portal any images of the prophet. But the only problem was that the makers of South Park censored Muhammad’s image by having him wear a bear suit. Muslim director Aryaan Hirsi Ali, who had worked with Van Gogh, believes that even though the bear costume may seem like a minor issue it is a serious offense to radical Islamists. Ali on CNN stated, “This is clearly a threat considering that the South Park maker’s addresses were posted on the website for any Jihadist to see”. She even went on to say, “Most Muslims don’t follow the scriptures that justify killing those that disgrace Allah or the Prophet Muhammad but, Van Goghs murder proves that even small extremists groups will take drastic measures for their beliefs”. Ali also, believes that Islam is not above criticism and that Radical Islamists are morally wrong in their Jihadists beliefs that disgrace the religion and its followers.

Greencorp Project

The Greencorp Project was hard at some points but, overall it was worth it. For our group just meeting was hard at times especially in the beginning. Our first member was hard to get a hold of and eventually he had to drop out and we got Jarred. Jarred was able to help us give a theme, name, and lyrics for our song “Go Green”. He also already had some beats for us to choose from which, made things easier because at that point in time we were behind on the project. When it came time to record the song unfortunately Jarred was not able to meet us due to some unfortunate turn of events. This left Francis and I with a problem in that none of us could rap to our own song or knew how to record it. Luckily, we were finally able to find some people on campus that could help us produce something adequate for our trip to the Greencorp base. Overall I feel that this project has helped me personally learn about the problems in New Orleans that our Greencorp members have to go through daily. Jarred’s situation for example was very unfortunate, however, we are meeting him Monday so we can record a song with him in it, which was our original plan and this will surely end our project on a better note.