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'South Park' cartoon angers Bosnian Muslim leaders
Bosnian Islamic leaders voiced anger after a local television station aired an episode of the popular US cartoon "South Park" depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. "The broadcast (of the cartoon) is unacceptable and we condemn it and consider it to be a kind of provocation," Enes Ljevakovic, head of a Bosnian Islamic council, said Monday.

“The broadcast (of the cartoon) is unacceptable and we condemn it and consider it to be a kind of provocation...”
The South Park episode portraying the Muslim prophet, Jesus Christ, Krishna and Buddha as friends who fight against evil was shown on the private Sarajevo-based OBN network early on Saturday morning. "According to Islamic tradition, the presentation of Prophet Mohammed or any other prophet is unacceptable ... even if their presentation is not sarcastic but in positive light," Ljevakovic said. "The cartoon was even censored in the United States ... and that is what the local Bosnian television station should have done as well," he added.

OBN defended its decision to air the show, saying the cartoon presented prophets in a positive light that could be considered as a lesson in morality.
Posted by: Fred 2006-08-02
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