Posted on 08/20/2002 12:08:08 PM PDT by Destro
Clinton's State Dept blames that dead Hitler lover dead President Tudjman of Croatia for inviting al-Qaida/Iran into Bosnia!! You keep posting Clinton made you do it! With allies like these who needs enemies!
Yes, and the ease of travel today. Very quickly bringing jihadists anywhere they want to go.
Yes, it is. Here is an excerpt:
And in Italy the radicals are already targeting their next cultural icon for destruction: the works of Dante Alighieri, Italy's national poet. In demanding that Giovanni da Modena's fresco be pulverized, the Unione blamed the perceived anti-Islamic sentiment of modern Italians on Dante, who in the Middle Ages placed Mohammed in the ninth circle of hell in the 28th Canto of his masterpiece, "The Inferno." While it is true that the fretted-over fresco was based on this 14th-century work, the would-be vandals neglect to mention that both Dante and Giovanni damned plenty of their fellow Catholics in their depictions of hell, including a smattering of priests, a pope or two, and even a canonized saint. As far as eternal perdition was concerned, these medireview artists were equal opportunity judges. Despite this fact, the Unione demands that Dante not be taught in many Italian schools.
Dante's devil isn't excreting/rebirthing anyone; he's frozen in ice up to his waist. And he has three faces, whose mouths eternally gnaw on the three most-damned souls in eternity: Brutus, Cassius, and (in the center, starring role) Judas Iscariot.
(Of course, it goes without saying that Dante never met Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Bill Clinton. :-0)
...While I was all absorbed in seeing him, He looked at me, and opened with his hands His bosom, saying: "See now how I rend me;
How mutilated, see, is Mahomet; In front of me doth Ali weeping go, Cleft in the face from forelock unto chin;
And all the others whom thou here beholdest, Disseminators of scandal and of schism While living were, and therefore are cleft thus.
A devil is behind here, who doth cleave us Thus cruelly, unto the falchion's edge Putting again each one of all this ream,...
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