April 22nd, 2010 09:46 AM ET  'South Park' Mohammed issue sparks
debate among Muslims  A message on the "South Park" website
explaining why the second part of an episode involving Mohammed
can't be streamed online yet.  It took seven minutes of a "South
Park" episode to change a devout Muslim’s features from an
entertained smile to complete disapproval. He told his
colleague, Lebanese blogger Bilal el-Houri, as he walked away
from the screening, “This is disgusting.”  What the young man
(he prefers to remain anonymous) found disgusting was the
depiction of Islam’s revered Prophet Mohammed as a bear mascot
in "South Park’s" 200th episode. The depiction was the show
authors’ sarcastic attempt to highlight media’s uneasy dealing
with the father of Islam as not to offend Muslims who consider
any depiction of their prophet as blasphemous.  Since his
followers insist on him not being shown in any form, producers
have always struggled with ways to include Mohammed in story
lines without showing him. The most famous