Posted on 05/27/2024 1:09:19 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A secondary school in Treviso, Italy, has come under fire after it was revealed that Muslim students were exempted from studying Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" due to the poem's depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in Hell. The epic poem, spanning Inferno, Purgatoria, and Paradiso, shows the fate of many non-Christians, per the immagination of the legendary Italian poet. Ancient poets Virgil, Aristotle, and other pagans are depicted as existing in Limbo due to their lack of Christianity.
According to a report by The Telegraph, the school allowed two Muslim students, aged around 14, to skip classes during the study of Dante's work. "The Divine Comedy," a 14th-century allegorical poem. It portrays a man's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, with Virgil as his guide. The story further depicts the Prophet Muhammad and his cousin Ali in hell being tortured by demons with swords.
An excerpt from the story reads, “How is Muhammad mangled! Before me walks Ali weeping, from the chin his face cleft to the forelock.” Muhammad is placed there because Dante viewed him as a sinner who promoted scandals, schism, and discord.
The school’s decision to exempt the students immediately drew criticism from Italian politicians across the political spectrum. Senator Simona Malpezzi condemned the exemption, stating that it was “deeply wrong” for students to be exempt from learning about the “deep knowledge of Italian culture that studying Dante brings."
"Knowing Dante does not take anything away from children’s religious faith and adds a great deal to their knowledge of Italian culture,” she stated.
MP Frederico Mollicone echoed this sentiment, saying, “This is just the latest shameful case of cultural cancellation. An exemption like this not only undermines our national identity but deprives new generations of formative scholastic study.”
Mario Conte, the mayor of Treviso, also criticized the school's move, stating that he "would prefer that they cut down on kids looking at TikTok and social media rather than Dante. Less mobile phones, more Divine Comedy."
Probably more effective if they learn that point first-hand, by actual personal experience (bummer about those missing virgins, though).
Koran teaches to kill the infidel.
Muslim students in Italian high school exempt from everything, except Bomb Belt Making and Cell Phone Triggers classes.
Fun fact: the only invention credited to Palestinians is the Cell Phone Bomb Trigger
A second grade public school teacher told her class of seven and eight year olds that Princess Diana was in Hell because she was having sex with a man she was not married to.
Shock, panic, and group sobbing quickly followed.
The teacher was fired the next day.
Along with Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Hirohito, Benito Mussolini and every other tyrant in history.
In fact, no mooselimb should be allowed on planet earth 🌎🌏🌍 at all.
Every single copy of the unholy koran needs to be treated as kindling for campfires 🔥.
Why do we have to destroy everything Christian for these violent invading thugs.
>>>Muslim students in Italian high school exempt from studying Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ due to depictions of Mohammed in hell
What’s the difference between Islamic Hell & their Paradise? All the bodily pleasures of perpetual sex in paradise with a never ending stream of virgins?
Education isn’t anything like facts and the truth. It’s just whatever sh*t you want to believe.
Islam is the original Antichrist religion
A better solution would be to cut that page out of the muslim books if they find it so offensive. But they don’t believe in the Christian hell anyway so why does it even bother them?
No, the best solution is - Tell them you are in an Italian school system and Italian literature is part of the curriculum. Dante’s work is an important part of that literature. Mohammed in hell is in “The Divine Comedy”. If you can’t stop taking this as a personal insult, then leave the school system. Otherwise shut up act like an adult. Part of an education is hearing things you don’t like if you can’t accept that get out! No more special privileges for Muslims! You.re going to be treated just like everyone else. That’s not good enough, then leave!
I’m surprised the Muslims haven’t managed to get Dante banned in Italy yet. Give it another 10 years.
Poor buttercups must be sheltered...
The River War
A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, "The River War", in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
LOL.
As anyone knows who has actually READ “The Inferno”, a huge fraction of the people Dante consigned to Hell were bishops.
Ahhh ... I perceive that you are a gentleman and a scholar, and have read Dante ...
Gutted and torn apart. The appropriate divine punishment for those who sowed discord and tore entire societies apart.
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