Posted on 08/20/2010 5:02:22 PM PDT by Beowulf9
Zachary Adam Chesser AKA Abu Tallah Al-Amrikee has been arrested by the FBI .
Chesser made headlines in April when he posted threatening messages to the creators of the series South Park following an episode which seemed to feature the Prophet Muhammad in a bear costume.
Chesser was apparently arrested on July 10th at a New York airport while trying to fly to Uganda. Chesser was on the No Fly List and was stopped by authorities before boarding the plane. The arrest was not related to the....
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Was he trying to jihad Kenny?
How many more are stil out there, willing to jihad Stone and Parker?
This news was posted at the time of his arrest — but it’s good to see it again. Once in awhile, they feds accidentally succeed.
Al-Amrikee? "The American"?
an episode which seemed to feature the Prophet Muhammad in a bear costumeI thought the "rule" was you can't show any likeness of The Prophet.
Are they saying the prophet looks like a bear?
Is he Russian?
Maybe Matt and Trey will grow a pair some day. Show a real picture of Mohammed.
They tried in the “Carton Wars” episode. Comedy Central would not let them show a pic of Mohammed. The part where Mohammed showed up was cut out and there was a black screen that said “Comedy Central would not allow us to show a picture of Mohammed or some message to that effect. It was a big deal at the time.
Never forget the silence of the self described bravest of Hollywood when two of their own were actually threatened with death. I don’t remember George Clooney speaking up for free speech in this case, although he loves to pretend Hollywood somehow garners credit for civil rights.
Correct. My mistake and apologies to Trey and Matt.
Mohammed was eventually edited out by Comedy Central.
Parker and Stone decided to dress Mohammed in a bear costume so they wouldn't need to actually depict him. This is the episode that Comedy Central cut into confetti and generated the death threats.
As I recall, that wasn’t Muhammad in the bear costume. It was Santa Claus.
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