This story is based on two sources, wcbstv.com today and the UK Telegraph today. Yesterday a car bomb was placed in an SUV in New York City and left to detonate. Thanks to the actions of a street vendor who reported a smoking car, the bomb was discovered before it detonated. Wcbstv reports that the New York Police Department is checking surveillance cameras around the area for leads and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is also involved in the investigation.
The UK Telegraph points out that the bomb was located near the offices of Viacom, which owns the South Park television series. Last month the writers of South Park were threatened with physical harm because of their portrayal of Mohammed in the series.
South Park is in its fourteenth season. During that time, the show has bashed everyone--Christians, Barbra Streisand, Scientology, pedophiles, etc. The show is rude, crude,and politically incorrect, but it is probably one of the most unbiased shows on television. Only when they satirized Mohammed were they faced with actual physical harm. This ought to be a clue to us about the intolerance of the extremist elements of the Muslim religion.
According to the UK Telegraph:
"The bomb was left inside a dark green Nissan Pathfinder, left with its engine running and hazard lights flashing near the junction of 45th Street and Broadway.
"A T-shirt vendor, who was a Vietnam veteran, alerted police when he noticed smoke coming out of it. Police hurriedly evacuated thousands of tourists and theatre-goers, including women in evening gowns, from the area on Broadway's busiest night of the week."
Hopefully, we can quickly find the people who put this car bomb together and put them in jail for a very long time. Meanwhile, we have a lot to be thankful for--no one was hurt and the bomb did not detonate.
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