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 |  Subject: Statist idiots: South Park episode labeled extremist in Russia  Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:00 am | |
| An episode of the US cartoon comedy South Park has been labelled as extremist by Russian prosecutors, who have issued a warning to the Russian TV station that broadcast it.
The Prosecutor General's Office did not identify which episode its investigators found objectionable, but said it "offends the honour and dignity of Christians and Muslims and insults the feelings of believers irrespective of their faith".
Prosecutors today issued the warning to private TV channel 2x2, which aired the episode on January 9, and said they had appealed to a Moscow court to declare the episode extremist.
The all-cartoon 2x2 channel has received similar warnings in recent months about other animated series, leading to some media speculation that it may be the target of a takeover attempt.
Corrupt Russian law enforcement officials are often used to force a change in company ownership.
Representatives of 2x2 could not be reached for comment this evening.
General director Roman Sarkisov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying he would defend the channel in court.
South Park's creators, who have also made a feature-length movie, routinely take satirical jabs at politicians, celebrities, religion and sexuality.
With heavy parody and scatological humour, the made-for-adults program follows a group of children living in a fictional US town.
Russian prosecutors opened their investigation into the South Park episode after receiving complaints from Russian Protestant leaders, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
RIA-Novosti quoted the head of the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians, Konstantin Bendas, as saying prosecutors should ban the South Park cartoons on the grounds that they contain "covert and overt propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia as norms of sexual life".
Earlier this year, some Russian Protestant leaders asked for the channel's broadcasting licence to be revoked, the agency said.
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| | Subject: Re: Statist idiots: South Park episode labeled extremist in Russia Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:24 am | |
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