A group of Italian Muslims had appealed unsuccessfully to the Vatican ( news - web sites) last year to have the fresco, by Giovanni da Modena, removed or to have parts of it covered, arguing that it offended Islam.
What are Muslims doing in a cathedral (belonging to an unfaithful religion, as they see it), anyway? See, if they had stayed away, they would never have known about it and wouldn't be "offended." Are they willing to take suggestions from non-Muslims about the decor of their mosques?
I don't remember being offended when I had to take off my shoes to walk in the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. I just went along with it. Of course that was many years ago.
But now that I've wised up, isn't it interesting to see that the islamonazis all along have just been biding their time till they can get to the point where they can destroy as much of our culture as they can get their mitts on.