Andrew said he had interesting news as well. Andrew never says he has news, let alone interesting news. All of a sudden my brain was filled with a series of horrible thoughts. Did someone die? Are they canceling the show? What could it possibly be? I knew from the look on his face, whatever it was, it wasn't good. I told him to go first.
He started by saying he would have told me earlier but he didn't want me to worry. Well, that me even more anxious... and scared! He then preceded to tell me a Muslim group issued a message stating the producers of the show would probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh (gruesome pictures included) for insulting their prophet. What? The show censored all images of Muhammad. Isn't that the rule? Showing the likeness of a costume bear is against the rules now, too?
I want to be the type of person who stands up to this kind of bullying, but I don't want to see people I care about hurt by people who mean nothing to me. The fanatic is a paradox to me. If it's worth dying or killing over, it's got to be pretty good. If it's that good, why can't it stand on its own merits? Why does it need someone dying or killing over it?
My news was pretty mundane compared to Andrew's stories of death threats and armed guards, but he listened anyway. We moved to the couch and chatted a little more until he took an impromptu nap.
Imogen missed Andrew, too!As you can see, Andrew fell asleep in a very uncomfortable looking position. He stayed that way for several minutes. It's strange the picture tuned out so fuzzy. Maybe it just reflects how Andrew's brain was feeling at the time.
When we watched the controversial episode last night, it was filled with a whole bunch of bleeping and big black boxes with the word CENSORED on them. I was, however, glad the creators were still able to get their message across without outwardly violating the arbitrary rules set up by a bunch of extremists. Actually, the additional censorship might have added to the message.
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