'South Park' Creators Threatened by Radical Muslim Group
WHITFIELD: One person's satire is another's insult. The episode of "South Park" has roiled radical Muslims, prompting a warning to the show's creators. Here's Special Investigations Unit Correspondent Drew Griffin.</s>DREW GRIFFIN, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Revolution Muslim says, despite their provocative posting, complete with the photo of a murder victim, the group says it's only issuing a call to protest, not violence. Contacted by CNN, the creator of the posting said Revolution Muslim only wants those offended to be able to voice their opposition by letters to the show's creators.</s>TOOBIN: Certainly, the comment on this Web site is very ugly, but it is certainly not specific enough to get anyone arrested at this point.</s>YOUNES ABDULLAH MOHAMMED, REVOLUTION MUSLIM: Hi, Drew. How are you?</s>GRIFFIN (on camera): Good. (voice-over): Last year, CNN interviewed one of the founders of this radical Muslim group on the streets of New York. Younes Mohammed chose his words carefully, telling us he saw nothing wrong with Americans dying in the 9/11 terrorist attack.</s>MOHAMMED: I don't think it was wrong. I think it was justified.</s>GRIFFIN: And then adding, he does not encourage any violence on U.S. soil. It's a word game, federal officials tell us, that allows Revolution Muslim to post support of terrorists, like the alleged Fort Hood, Texas, shooter, while the Web site itself is protected under free speech laws of the United States. Younes Mohammed told us he doesn't see anything wrong with his messages. He dislikes the United States. He yearns for a Muslim world.</s>MOHAMMED: We're commanded to terrorize the disbelievers. And this is a religion, like I said.</s>GRIFFIN (on camera): You're commanded to terrorize the disbelievers?</s>MOHAMMED: The Koran says very clearly in the Arabic language -- language</s>GRIFFIN: So, you're commanded --</s>MOHAMMED: To terrorize them.</s>GRIFFIN: -- to terrorize anybody who doesn't believe?</s>MOHAMMED: It doesn't mean -- you define terrorism as going and killing an innocent civilian. That's what your --</s>GRIFFIN: How do you --</s>MOHAMMED: I define terrorism as making them fearful, so that they think twice before they go rape your mother or kill your brother or go on to your land and try to steal your resources.</s>GRIFFIN (voice-over): The clip on the site ends with the warning on a graphic directed at Parker and Stone that the dust will never settle down. Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.</s>WHITFIELD: And here's a response to the threat from one of "South Park's" creators.</s>QUESTION: Are you afraid that if the network allows you to unveil (ph) the Prophet Mohammed, that you will be bombed?</s>TREY PARKER, CO-CREATOR, "SOUTH PARK": It would be so hypocritical against our own thoughts if we said, OK, well, let's not make fun of them because they might hurt us.</s>WHITFIELD: And now the view of a Muslim author. She spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper.</s>AYAAN HIRSI ALI, AUTHOR, "INFIDEL": I grew up as a Muslim, and growing up Muslim I learn you don't criticize Allah, the Koran, or the Prophet Mohammed. And you should participate in condemning and eventually killing anybody who does. So that is just what the religion tells us. That's what scripture tells us. There are some people who want to act on it and there are some people who don't. The majority of Muslims do not want to act on the scripture, but they're silent when fellow Muslims do.</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: But, I mean, in "South Park," this cartoon, whether you like "South Park" or not, they show Buddha snorting cocaine. You don't see death threats or warnings from Buddhists.</s>ALI: And you don't see death threats from Jews when Moses is depicted in an unbecoming position. And you don't see threats from Christians when Jesus Christ is made -- you know, is put in a satire position. So it is only -- and this is the strong thing. The "South Park" episode of last weekend was not just funny, and it wasn't just witty, it was also -- it addressed an essential piece in the times that we're living. There is one group of people, one religion that is claiming to be above criticism. And I hope that in the aftermath of this that we discuss that. When</s>WHITFIELD: We're also taking you up close and personal to the volcano causing travel delays around the world. And we'll get to the bottom of talk about a second volcano possibly springing to light? That's a big old question mark.