I’m sure he’ll have a blast in federal prison.
(IPT) — A second man has been charged in connection with threats made last year against the producers of the Comedy Central program “South Park.”
Jesse Curtis Morton, (aka Younus Abdullah Mohammad) is charged with communicating threats. Morton helped run a website, RevolutionMuslim, with Zachary Chesser. Chesser is serving a 25-year prison term after pleading guilty to a similar charge and to trying to provide material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.
After a “South Park” episode in April 2010 mocked the violent reaction of radical Islamists by portraying the Prophet Mohammad covered by a bear suit, Chesser posted a statement warning producers Matt Stone and Trey Parker that they “will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show.”
Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker who was killed on an Amsterdam street after producing a short film protesting the treatment of women in Islam.
According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Paula Menges, Chesser then collaborated with Morton on a “clarification statement” triggered by media inquiries.
“The Clarification Statement contained pages of justification under Islamic law for the death of those who insult Islam or defame its prophet, and for Muslims to bring about such deaths,” Menges wrote. “In it, Morton and Chesser asserted in pertinent part that ‘we will never tolerate the mocking or insulting of any one of the prophets,’ and explained that the Islamic ruling on this situation was that ‘the punishment is death.'”