April 17, 2006

One more cartoon … more protests?

Filed under: Islam — IZ @ 2:40 am — Print This Post

A new offensive cartoon?

THE controversy over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was reignited yesterday after an Italian Catholic magazine printed one on its front cover.

Studi Cattolici carried a drawing of the Prophet in Hell, with the Italian writer Dante Alighieri asking the poet Virgil: “That man divided in two from his head to his feet - isn’t that Muhammad?” Virgil replies: “Yes, it is him and he is in two because he has divided society - while the man next to him with his arms down represents Italian politics towards Islam.”

The cartoon is a play on Dante’s Inferno - a similar scene is painted on the ceiling of the San Petronio Cathedral in Bologna, which had been the planned target of a Islamic terrorist cell until the plot was uncovered. Yesterday, there was widespread condemnation of the decision to print the cartoon - earlier this year riots erupted across the Muslim world after similar cartoons were published in Denmark. But Studi Cattolici, which has close ties with the Vatican and the secretive Opus Dei group, defended the decision to publish it. Its editor, Cesare Cavallieri, said: “It is not a cartoon against Muhammad but rather a cartoon about the loss of identity in the West …
Muslim groups in Italy also condemned the publication of the cartoon. Roberto Piccardo, of the Italian Union of Muslims, said: “The mother of cretins is always pregnant.”"

3 Comments »

  1. Mohamed Karikatur des Studi Cattolici

    So langsam kommt die AUseinandersetzung der Kulturen in Gang. Nach den schlechten Mohammed Karikaturen von Jyllands-Posten hatte Mein Parteibuch im Februar zu einem vielbeachteten Mohammed Karikatur Wettbewerb aufgerufen, um bessere Mohammed Karikature…

    Trackback by Mein-Parteibuch.com — January 31, 2007 @ 11:42 am

  2. Mohamed Karikatur des Studi Cattolici

    So langsam kommt die AUseinandersetzung der Kulturen in Gang. Nach den schlechten Mohammed Karikaturen von Jyllands-Posten hatte Mein Parteibuch im Februar zu einem vielbeachteten Mohammed Karikatur Wettbewerb aufgerufen, um bessere Mohammed Karikature…

    Trackback by Parteibuch Mirror — February 5, 2007 @ 4:22 pm

  3. Alprazolam.

    Alprazolam.

    Trackback by Alprazolam. — April 28, 2007 @ 5:49 am

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