There's an episode of South Park that featured the Prophet Mohamed (Super Best Friends) that was uncontroversial when it aired, but now you can't get it anywhere. They did a very good bit about it in "Cartoon Wars". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Wars_Part_I (They deserve like a Pulitzer Prize or something for CW, it's genius.)
It's not illegal to depict the Prophet, it's religious courtesy. (Also, it might interfere with profit (no pun intended.))
Slight tangent: A previous episode of South Park (Super Best Friends) also showed a picture of Muhammad [1], which caused zero problems. A later one (Cartoon Wars) had Muhammad censored by Comedy Central because it was after the furore over the Dutch Muhammad cartoons.
I guess with all these things it’s about context and the political climate.
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There's an episode of South Park that featured the Prophet Mohamed (Super Best Friends) that was uncontroversial when it aired, but now you can't get it anywhere. They did a very good bit about it in "Cartoon Wars". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Wars_Part_I (They deserve like a Pulitzer Prize or something for CW, it's genius.)
It's not illegal to depict the Prophet, it's religious courtesy. (Also, it might interfere with profit (no pun intended.))
Slight tangent: A previous episode of South Park (Super Best Friends) also showed a picture of Muhammad [1], which caused zero problems. A later one (Cartoon Wars) had Muhammad censored by Comedy Central because it was after the furore over the Dutch Muhammad cartoons.
I guess with all these things it’s about context and the political climate.
[1] https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjJmMTUzOGEtYjEyNS00MDJiLTlkZGQtMThhYWE3NjE3YjkzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODQxOTQ3OTU@._V1_.jpg