Romans cover their nudes for Iranian leader's visit

CBS News ^ | January 26, 2016 | Tucker Reals

[C19fan]

The Romans have censored themselves to make visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani feel more comfortable during his historic stop in Italy. Rouhani -- the first Iranian leader to visit Europe in almost 20 years -- met Tuesday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, but another stop on his agenda was the famed Capitoline Museum, where classic Italian nude sculptures were covered with plain white boards to avoid offending the Muslim president.

[C19fan]

Dhimmitude. Why bother taking Rouhani to the museum.

[I got the rope]

You don’t want Iranians running around masturbating.

[Snickering Hound]

Italy manufactures mega-yachts which the mullahs are in the market for with all those billions that just fell in their laps.

If they wanted the nipples on those statues painted, I'm sure something could be arranged.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"You don’t want Iranians running around masturbating."

You don't want them trying to rape the statues.

[Leaning Right]

You're supposed to label satire as such in the title of your post. Oh, wait...this isn't satire, it's real.

So just add this story to the "Europe Surrenders" list.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Why not just take jackhammers to them all and avoid offending the “migrants” delicate sensibilities?

[Georgia Girl 2]

I could vomit. Europe is over.

[beethovenfan]

Muslims have this superficial morality - nudes are evil, but it’s OK to rape non-Muslim women. Satanic idiocy.

[dfwgator]

Whatever happened to “When in Rome”?

[I want the USA back]

They don’t want to offend the delicate sensibilities of the savages. The same savages who chop heads and rape.

[bgill]

Kowtowing little ninnies. What happen to the Rome of yesteryear?

[RightGeek]

More good advice:

[Leaning Right]

Why not just take jackhammers to them all and avoid offending the "migrants" delicate sensibilities?

Eventually the migrants will take care of that on their own.

[Ancesthntr]

“The Romans have censored themselves....”

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Uh, wrong. The people living in the city of Rome have censored themselves....

The actual Romans would have already laid waste to Parthia/Persia/Iran, and salted the ground there if they had possessed today’s technology.

[lacrew]

When in Rome...Iranians don’t do what Romans do.

[lacrew]

Non-believers are ‘unclean’, yet they regularly wash their face with (and drink) camel urine.

[moehoward]

I’d prefer to cover the Iranians heads.

[Travis McGee]

"We can only know peace when you submit to The Alienork Way."

Correct response is to tell the Orks to shove it, and boot them back to their desert hell-holes.

[golf lover]

Wouldn’t have been cheaper just to give him a blindfold?

[SunkenCiv]