"Mahomet," a vision of Hell painted by Salvador Dali.
What are Mecca-nized muslims---outraged and
"provoked" by Danish cartoons, and now by Pope Benedict XVI--- going to do
about depictions of Mahomet rotting in Hell? And how will today's
touchy-feely Western man react to how the muslims react?
Imams and other operatives, in a sequel to Cartoon
War, have gone to work. Fire. Effigies. Placards in English for CNN . Curses
and cries of doom for the Christian dogs. War against the Cross. It's getting
medeival again. Even the moderate King of Morocco recalled his Ambassador to
the Vatican, where security has been increased. In Somalia assailants attacked a
Catholic nun working in a hospital, putting four bullets in her
back.
If the Holy Pontiff gets reactions like this from
the holy warriors, just by quoting a 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor on
evil, violence and Mahomet, what to expect from depictions of Mahomet in
hell with his son Ali, disemboweled by the devil's sword, torso sliced open and
guts hanging out?
That's the image of Mahomet by one of the icons
of Western civilization, the Italian Dante Alighieri, in his immortal
narrative poem,"The Inferno." Dante, it seems clear, did not wear politically
correct panties. His tremendously uncompromising picture has also been
illustrated by famous Western artists, including Salvadore Dali, William Blake
and the sculptor Auguste Rodin. What to do about their works and dissemination
thereof? Apologies? From whom? Simple destruction and confiscation? By
whom?
Copies of Dante's "Inferno" have been distributed
world-wide, in dozens of languages. Can they somehow be confiscated and burned?
Can the Penguin edition somehow be withdrawn? And does this in effect raise a
sensitive question about human anatomy? That is, while being defensive and
apologetic to religious fanatics, is today's version of Western man also
anatomically correct: does he still have two functioning testicles? Are they
fully intact, and not semi-detached? For example, would Secular Sammy (or Mainstream Max) who
shows his courage and fortitude by glibly mocking Christians, ever face down
Islamics? As with the Mahomet cartoons, the secularista New York Times et al
can be expected to self-censor. They call it, of course, "sensitivity to muslim religious beliefs." Western Resistance raises similar questions, with a plethora of fine illustrations.
And from Dante himself, Canto XXVIII of "The Inferno" where, guided by the Roman poet Virgil, he encounters and describes Mahomet and son Ali.
Between his legs were hanging down his
entrails;
His heart was visible, and
the dismal sack
That maketh shit of
what is eaten.
While I was all absorbed in seeing
him,
He looked at me, and opened with
his hands
His bosom, saying: "See now
how I rend me;
How mutilated, see, is
Mahomet;
In front of me doth Ali
weeping go,
Face split from forelock
unto chin;
And all the others whom thou here
beholdest,
Disseminators of scandal and
of schism
While living were, and
therefore are ripped open.
BlogWorld: Alexandra at Allthingsbeautiful, continuing to examine the legacy of Mahomet, looks at Hezbollah in today's context of Lebanon, the Middle East, the Sunni-Shia conflicts etc in "Hope in Fear." ........Sept. 27 At Captain's Quarter's, news of the Berlin Opera, in fear of Islam, sacrificing a musical icon of Western civilization, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ......See Michelle Malkin's "Opera Rage."
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