Once again South Park has been censored when it threatened to display images of Muhammad.

When news that a radical Muslim website had threatened the creators of the series,(Making reference to murder of Theo Van Gogh) it promted the Network into action.

The shows creators refussed to back down and sent the episode in question to Comedy Central "as is" only to have the network edit out not only certian images, but all mentions of the Prophet as well as entire sequences in the shows plot.

Many fans assumed all the bleeps and blurred images and censorship boxes were a ruse as part of the show by Stone and Parker, an attempt to show how ridiculous the world would be if we had to censor the smallest things.

However according to the shows creators:

"In the 14 years we've been doing 'South Park,' we have never done a show that we couldn't stand behind. We delivered our version of the show to Comedy Central, and they made a determination to alter the episode. It wasn't some meta-joke on our part."

To see it unedited fans will most likely have to wait for it on DVD.

But that is besides the point.

Why is it...that the threat of violence illicits a different responce where as cencorship is concerned from the network or anyone else for that matter?

Is it not just panderering to those who use violence and promoting their agenda when you cave in to such a thing?

Views anyone?