revolutionislam.com vs. South Park and the internet

You don't have to love South Park -- in fact, you can hate it -- but if you live in the free world, you should be willing to defend its right to exist. You should be willing to defend its right to offend, as it does with every episode. That's what free speech is all about. Of course, that free speech also protects those that espouse hate, which South Park does not. (In fact, while it offends, the one thing you can't pin on South Park, is hate. It hates not one. It loves everyone equally, cause it can poke fun at them.)

So recently, when South Park aired an episode featuring the Super Best Friends -- namely Buddha, Moses, Joseph Smith, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, Jesus and Sea Man (actually, Semen) -- and censored Muhammad's appearance -- he appears in a U-haul truck, then a bear costume, since it might offend Muslims -- they got some hate directed at them. Specifically, revolutionislam.com got their shorts in a knot, and posted quite the diatribe on their site -- coming just short of calling for the heads of the South Park creators.

revolutionislam.com opens their April 15th post on the topic with a photo of the stabbed Theo Van Gogh, followed by the text, "Have Matt Stone And Trey Parker Forgotten This?" That was followed by some propaganda, and,

We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.

Apparently, revolutionislam.com was heard. Loud and clear in fact. And their site has gone boom! Quite literally. It was hacked and defaced very quickly after the above threat was posted.

While revolutionislam.com may be able to skirt the laws in America, apparently, they haven't learned that pissing off the hacking community (die-hard fans of South Park), may not be such a good thing.