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Some Papers Didn’t Run This Sunday’s Non Sequitur… Because It Didn’t Have Muhammed In It

by Susana Polo | 5:34 pm, October 4th

This Sunday’s Non Sequitur cartoon features a pretty simple joke: what if you replaced Waldo with some one else? Please note (by clicking the image above for the full version) that an image of the prophet of Islam does not appear. Anywhere in the panel.

(Actually, I was kind of angry when I read it in the paper, because I felt it was nerd sniping me. Of course, now I have to check and see if you actually put him in there, and see just how far your punchline goes. Make me work, why don’t you.)

Anyway, despite actually not having an image of the prophet Muhammed, some papers apparently declined to run it yesterday.

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Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Block Over Muhammed Caricature Group

by Robert Quigley | 9:03 am, May 19th

Everybody Draw Muhammed Day, a satirical protest movement dreamt up in response to the outrage over a South Park episode in which the prophet Muhammed was depicted in a bear costume, has itself led to far greater fallout than anyone might have expected: Now, a court in Pakistan has ordered Facebook to be blocked over an “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day” Facebook group.

Not just the group, mind you — which Pakistan’s department of communications had already blocked by the time the matter made its way to the Lahore High Court — But the entirety of Facebook, which had close to 1.5 million members in Pakistan as of December and may have since surpassed that number.

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The Simpsons Stand Behind South Park with Help of Bart’s Chalkboard [Video]

by Robert Quigley | 12:14 am, April 26th

The Simpsons and South Park have made fun of each other in the past, but tonight’s Simpsons opened with a quick but touching show of inter-cartoon support, courtesy of Bart’s chalkboard.

In response to the controversy over the most recent South Park episode, #201 — in which Comedy Central heavily censored the content of the episode that screened on-air and refused to broadcast it online due to death threats South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone received over their depiction of Muhammed in a bear suit — Bart’s chalkboard read “South Park – We’d Stand Beside You If We Weren’t So Scared.”

Video after the jump:

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