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It took seven minutes of a "South Park" episode to change a devout Muslim's features from an entertained smile to complete disapproval. He told his colleague, Lebanese blogger Bilal el-Houri, as he walked away from the screening, "This is disgusting."
What the young man (he prefers to remain anonymous) found disgusting was the depiction of Islam's revered Prophet Mohammed as a bear mascot in "South Park's" 200th episode. The depiction was the show authors' sarcastic attempt to highlight media's uneasy dealing with the father of Islam as not to offend Muslims who consider any depiction of their prophet as blasphemous.
Since his followers insist on him not being shown in any form, producers have always struggled with ways to include Mohammed in story lines without showing him. The most famous of those depictions is the classic Hollywood movie 'The Message' by Mustafa al-Akkad about the life of Prophet Mohammed. Being Muslim himself, al-Akkad directed his entire film with extreme sensitivity building the character of the prophet around the wind or the light so it's a presence that is felt or experienced but not seen.