{"id":4074,"date":"2010-04-26T23:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2010-04-26T23:55:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:55:04","slug":"quote-i-am-a-muslim-and-i-am-a-fan-of-south-park-the-south-park-controversy-chup-changing-up-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/26\/quote-i-am-a-muslim-and-i-am-a-fan-of-south-park-the-south-park-controversy-chup-changing-up-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote :: I am a Muslim and I am a fan of South Park. &#8230;.. :: The South Park Controversy \u00ab CHUP! \u2013 Changing Up Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I am a Muslim and I am a fan of South Park. To make those terms mutually exclusive is polarizing and frankly, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">unproductive<\/span>. <strong>Aasif Mandvi<\/strong> over at the <em>Daily Show<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/23\/jon-stewart-takes-on-comedy-centrals-censorship-of-south-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summarized<\/a> my sentiment exactly when he said last night, \u201cYes, it [the depiction] would make me uncomfortable and I can understand people being upset about it\u2026but here\u2019s whats more upsetting. Someone, in the name of a faith that I believe in, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">threatening another person for doing it<\/span>.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/changinguppakistan.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/23\/the-south-park-controversy\/\">The South Park Controversy \u00ab CHUP! \u2013 Changing Up Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Muslim and I am a fan of South Park. To make those terms mutually exclusive is polarizing and frankly, unproductive. Aasif Mandvi over at the Daily Show summarized my sentiment exactly when he said last night, \u201cYes, it [the depiction] would make me uncomfortable and I can understand people being upset about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/26\/quote-i-am-a-muslim-and-i-am-a-fan-of-south-park-the-south-park-controversy-chup-changing-up-pakistan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote :: I am a Muslim and I am a fan of South Park. &#8230;.. :: The South Park Controversy \u00ab CHUP! \u2013 Changing Up Pakistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}