Posted on 04/16/2006 6:51:09 PM PDT by blam
Muslims outraged by new cartoon of Prophet in Hell
By Malcolm Moore in Rome
(Filed: 17/04/2006)
An Italian magazine has infuriated Muslims by publishing a cartoon showing the Prophet Mohammed cut in half and burning in Hell.
The drawing appears in Studi Cattolici, a monthly magazine with links to the ultra-conservative Roman Catholic group, Opus Dei. It shows the poets Virgil and Dante on the edge of a circle of flame looking down on Mohammed.
"Isn't that man there, split in two from head to navel, Mohammed?" Dante asks Virgil.
"Yes and he is cut in two because he has divided society," Virgil replies. "While that woman there, with the burning coals, represents the politics of Italy towards Islam."
Cesare Cavalleri, the editor of the magazine, said last night that he had not meant to cause offence. "If, contrary to my intentions and those of the author, anyone felt offended in his religious feelings, I freely ask him in a Christian manner for forgiveness."
That was a marked change of tone from an earlier statement, when he said: "We must not fear freedom of opinion." If the cartoon provoked an attack, it would only confirm "the idiotic positions" of Muslim extremists.
"This is not a cartoon against Mohammed. It is a cartoon which addresses the loss of the West's identity.
"Why all the fuss over a cartoon which only represents that which has already been written centuries ago by Dante Alighieri?"
Dante placed Mohammed in Hell in Canto 28 of The Divine Comedy. His work inspired a painting by William Blake, depicting Mohammed with his entrails hanging out, and a fresco in Bologna Cathedral showing him being tortured by a devil.
The new drawing threatens to reignite the controversy over a series of cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September and reproduced in France in February.
A spokesman for the Union of Italian Muslim Communities called it "odious and racist". He said: "The rage was just calmed and here, with an absurd and criminal logic, they go and stir things up."
Opus Dei was quick to distance itself from the magazine. "Studi Catollici is not among our official publications," a spokesman said.
The new controversy has emerged just as Danish and Muslim youths are taking part in a summit aimed at reconciling the two sides.
At the time of the Danish row, Roberto Calderoli, the Italian reforms minister, wore a T-shirt showing one of the Danish cartoons during a television interview. He was forced to resign.
source: HERE
Yawn..outraged muslims..sun rises in the east..tall players in the NBA..what is the surprise here..
Uh...There IS NO DEPICTION OF MOOHAMMIT-SAMMICH(swiss cheeze be upon him).
GDAMN muzzies are freakin' INSANE!!!!
Here's one of my favorites by Gustave Doré.
Canto 28...
In the Inferno chapter of Dante's trilogy The Divine
Comedy, Mohammed is described as being one of the "Sowers
of Discord," showing his entrails to Dante and Virgil
in the Eighth Circle of Hell:
Inferno XXVIII, 19-42.
The poets are in the ninth
chasm of the eighth circle, that of the Sowers of
Discord, whose punishment is to be mutilated.
Mahomet shows his entrails to Dante and Virgil
while on the left stands his son Ali, his head cleft
from chin to forelock.
Oh God forgive mw I so love this.
Here in the ninth pouch of Malebolge Dante and Virgil find those who have been creators of splits in groups or families. Because, in life, they took part in the splitting of groups, they now walk around in a circle, while their bodies are split open. Then, just as they heal, their bodies are split open again. Dante meets Mohammed and Ali, the two men who split Christians and Islams. Mohammed's chest is split open, and Ali's face is split open.
You beat me to it.
Why would a wannabe martyr care about blood pressure? They fix any lasting problems with a little TATP.
I think the author is being Terroristophobic.
Only if the severed head is stitched to a pork belly.
Beat me too....
What's TATP?
Btw, you might want to check out a movie, `The Dark': shot in Wales. So-so movie but amazing scenery.
Ping...in his rightful place.
Lookit #21. It's the original cartoon. There is NO depiction of mooh.
I have his book with the illustrations. I found it in a garage sale last year for a $1.
Superb...
More than a race...non-muslims defile the planet. We must be destroyed. Nuclear weapons are the means, islam is the motive and the will...opportunity is any day they have the ability...
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