Andrew Bolt is wrong

The title of Andrew's piece today about Comedy Central's alarming double standards [South Park bravely savages the creed that won't say "boo"] is misleading and wrong. South Park has taken a satirical scalpel to Islam a number of times, as well as some of the other religious sacred cows that other comedy shows just won't touch. It is their parent network, Comedy Central, which censored their episode showing Mohamed and is planning a new series to poke fun at Christianity. The double standard is being displayed by Comedy Central, not South Park.

It is a hypocritical stance for Comedy Central to hold. How can they be willing to ridicule one religion, but not another? The short answer is fear. If we in the west accept that our culture can be dictated to by violent extremists, we have already lost. It is fine for Comedy Central to broadcast a series that mocks Christianity. It is not fine that they are willing to do that whilst they are censoring another show for ridiculing another religion. If it is OK to poke fun at one religion, it is OK to poke fun at all of them.