Update: Michelle Malkin has lots of links on this topic, and has even opened her comments section for discussion.

Another Update: This is what the fuss is all about? Sheesh--Viacom really should be ashamed of themselves. (Update to the update: Apparently, it's a fake: "Shouldn’t Muhammad look like a Family Guy character and not a South Park one? I’m thinking Photoshop here…”)

One More: Welcome to Dhimmidy Central!

Last One For Now: Cartoonist Thom Zahler writes:

The episode was built around a network and the free speech/Mohammed hypocrisy. Mohammed's appearance in the cartoon was of him handing off a football, purposefully tame. That's when the "Comedy Central won't air this part" popped up. Then, in the cartoon, the Muslim extremists react by making their own offensive cartoon, including the images of Jesus and Bush defecating on themselves and the American people.

That, to me, is the brilliance of it. They knew Comedy Central wouldn't air Mohammed, but would air the Jesus/Bush images. They not only called out their network's callowness, they illustrated it, and further showed how Americans DIDN'T riot upon seeing those images. Unless there was a story I missed this morning.

South Park has a rep for being vulgar, and fairly well deserved. But, more often than not, they don't do it for shock value but to make a point, as this episode did.

Click here to see a pretty big swatch of the episode.