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To: Mad Dawg
I think Dante puts Mohammed in the part of Hell where heretics are. If I get some time I’ll check.

Cool! Thank You.

196 posted on 05/10/2011 8:09:55 AM PDT by marbren
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To: marbren

He puts Mohammed and Ali both in the circle of sowers of discord, schismatics, and the like. M is cleft from throat to anus, and Ali form chin to forelock - both as the embodiments of division.

My Sinclair edition has in the notes that there was a theory that M. was formerly a cleric, a cardinal!

But since he tore “the world” apart with religious war, he ends up torn apart himself,over and over again.

And Ali, a cousin of M., was the center around which the schism between Shia and Sunni developed. So together they are the perfect manifestation of division.


206 posted on 05/10/2011 10:00:51 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived withomaniut sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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