Turkey Cracks Down on "Blasphemous" Simpsons Episode

Author: неталекс [388 views] 2012-12-05 16:23:51

A Simpsons episode where God takes orders from the Devil has so angered Turkey‘s Islamic government that it fined the TV network that broadcast it.
The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK), which sounds exactly like the sort of organization that would scrutinize a cartoon for blasphemy, has fined Turkish broadcaster CNBC-e $30,000 for “making fun of God, encouraging the young people to exercise violence by showing the murders as God’s orders and encouraging them to start drinking alcohol on New Year’s Eve night,” according to Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News. “One of the characters is abusing another one’s religious belief to make him commit murders. The Bible is publicly burned in one scene and God and the Devil are shown in human bodies.” You can see the offending clip, from the 2012 Halloween episode “Treehouse of Horror”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2012/12/05/turkey-cracks-down-on-blasphemous-simpsons-episode/

Reply | Reply to sender (private) | Synchronize
 * Turkey Cracks Down on "Blasphemous" Simpsons Episode неталекс [387 views] 949 bytes