Muslim Jesse Curtis Morton jailed over South Park threat

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: BBC

A Muslim who admitted posting internet threats against the creators of the South Park TV show has been sentenced to 11 years and six months in prison.

Jesse Curtis Morton, 33, who founded the now-offline Revolution Muslim website, had already admitted using it for al-Qaeda propaganda.

He conspired against South Park's writers after the show depicted the prophet Muhammad wearing a bear suit.

Co-accused Zachary Chesser received a 25-year sentence in February.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18557716

[iandhr]

1. what a nut.

[Jamaal510]

2. All this hubbub over a cartoon...

you know, I find it interesting that the guy came out with all these threats once his faith was made fun of. But it was okay with him when South Park made fun of other religions.

[MicaelS]

5. Just like Issac Hayes quitting South Park.

It was fine when SP ridiculed other religions, but when they went after Scientology, of which Hayes was a member, that was too much for Hayes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4804334.stm

Co-creator Stone said Hayes would be released from his contract and had the best wishes of the South Park team.

Stone said: "In 10 years and over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews.

"He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show."

[MADem]

12. They sent him out with a bang, too--killed him off and made him a child molester on the way out the

door!

Best wishes, Chef, indeed....!!!!

Bet he kicked himself after the fact--that had to be a good gig, steady money, easy work.

[Blue_Tires]

14. I guess the Hayes thing proved that everyone has a line they won't cross

Even Parker and Stone have one, just that no one's found it yet

[freshwest]

9. It's an almost infantile desire to control the thinking of others, afraid one might be proven wrong.

Which is what half the Tea Party is about.

[may3rd]

17. The great Danes are no stranger to cartoons

in fact, certain clerics sought out the cartoons to exploit the uneducated illiterates around the world into seething rage. They even drew a few of their own to get the point across.But that part of the draw mohamad story was never beaten like a dead horse

[hrmjustin]

3. i guess he could not take a joke

[slackmaster]

16. No, and one of my religion's mottos is "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke!"

[may3rd]

18. MAD TV

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Wow - MAD TV really drank the Republican kool-aid on that one, didn't they?

When was that from? I'd guess from the height of the US government anti-al-Jazeera PR operation.

[Courtesy Flush]

25. Wow. Somebody doesn't understand satire.

Sorry for you, bro.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. So you think that was supporting Al-Jazeera, and attacking the Bush claims about it?

Since it was posted in reply to "fuck 'em if they can't take a joke" in a thread about Muslims and South Park, may3rd seemed to think it was a joke at the expense of Muslims, not at the expense of Bush.

Rez Khan didn't seem to see it as a joke about Bush either: http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v36.n26/story7.html

It is possible it was a joke about the attitude to Al Jazeera - the same as the New Yorker cover with Barack and Michelle Obama as a Muslim and terrorist was, I suppose. Maybe I'm just reacting to its placement in the context of 'jokes about Islam'.

[cpwm17]

22. Humor should have an element of truth

Al Jazeera English is a quality news network that does circles around American news networks. This is stupid, and also bigoted propaganda.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Matt and Trey should do a skit about this asshole. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

6. stupidity should be a crime, in and of itself. nt

[Taverner]

7. Fuck 'em

[freshwest]

10. He's going where he'll have to learn tolerance to survive.

[may3rd]

19. He'll have a captive audience to plead his case in front of.

Maybe in five years, a follow up story will be made?
ya know
...Whatever happened to "watz iz name"

[freshwest]

21. Maybe. But I'm thinking, being a 'captive' himself, he won't have an 'captive audience.'

He will be considered to be no better than the other inmates. Unless he joins into some weird fraternity there, he'll find that respect for diversity is mandatory to survive.

Regimented thought processes learned from religion are a mental prison; but prison is a regimentation on a level he may never have endured. What he sought to take from another, is the same thing he once wanted for himself.

Hopefully he will learn that the privilege of thinking for one's own self is a gift that should not be threatened. OTOH, he may learn nothing from being incarcerated, and see himself as a victim or persecuted, and act worse later.

[may3rd]

28. Oh, yes, yes he will. Those cell mates of his are not going anywhere and many also believe

in religion as an escape from the walls of confinement.
He will be protected by some


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_to_Islam_in_U.S._prisons




......
Research downplays the idea of foreign infiltration, positing the threat as more likely from small pockets of prisoners falling under the spell of a charismatic fellow inmate. This point is crucial -- lack of Muslim chaplains forces inmates to take matters into their own hands, leading to cut-and-paste versions of Islam -- quite the opposite of what a fundamentalist would advocate. Criminologists refer to this as "prison Islam" or "Prislam," where gang structures appropriate Islam to justify a violent and criminal lifestyle.
.....


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/spearit/radical-islam-prison_b_880733.html

[longship]

8. Religion poisons everything

Christopher Hitchens was correct.

I also approve of this quote:

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg, physicist, 1979 Nobel Prize.

I think that fairly well sums things up.

Humans have to learn to live together. We have to put aside these iron age stories and learn about today's world. We have to touch one another.

[MADem]

11. Anyone who threatens cartoonists deserves at least that much jail time.

Maybe they can spend their confinement learning to draw amusing caricatures.

The pen IS mightier than the sword--they should think about that when they're eating their crappy, non-Halal prison food (or the even crappier Halal plates!).

Nitwits.

[Kolesar]

13. South Park sucks, but I am good with this! ... eom

[slackmaster]

15. The Church of Scientology fucked with South Park too

[McCamy Taylor]

23. 11 years for having no sense of humor.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

24. The opiate of the masses strikes again. nt

[athenasatanjesus]

26. Hopefully Lemmiwinks will crawl out of his butt.

And he can learn to take a joke.