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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the producers and brains behind "South Park," said that Comedy Central censored a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. According to a statement released by the duo, the bleeps inserted throughout the controversial episode was not a joke or commentary on censorship, as some had speculated. "It wasn't some meta-joke on our part," Parker and Stone said. Earlier this week, the radical group Revolution Muslim said on its website that "South Park" had insulted their prophet during its 200th episode by depicting him in a bear costume. The group said it wasn't threatening Parker and Stone, but the web post included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and said the producers could meet the same fate...
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