No one would dream of calling upon any other group to give up its own cultural, heritage and identity. The way Italy is going, before too long all students will be completely exempt from studying Dante, or anything besides the Qur’an. “Backlash as Muslim children in Italy exempted from studying Dante,” by Nick Squires, Telegraph, […]
UK Catholic Weekly ‘The Tablet’ Touts ‘Dante’s Debt to Islam’
My latest in PJ Media: In Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” according to a feature published Thursday in the British Catholic weekly The Tablet, “the Prophet Muhammad, along with four popes, is pictured suffering the torments of Hell.” However, as far as The Tablet is concerned, the big news in this 700-year-old literary masterpiece is not that, but a “less well-known” […]
UK Catholic weekly The Tablet touts ‘Dante’s debt to Islam’
There is an all-out an ongoing effort by Western “journalists” to condition Western non-Muslims to accept Islam and think of it as an integral part of the West, Islam’s 1,400-year jihad against Christendom and post-Christendom notwithstanding. Here is yet more of it. Will The Tablet tout some Christian influence on, say, Rumi or Omar Khayyam? […]
Muhammad removed from a new Dutch translation of Dante’s Inferno, to avoid ‘unnecessary offense’
The news has been quietly making the rounds in European news outlets, following an initial report by the newspaper De Standaard that was picked up subsequently by several French publications: a new translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, written between 1304 and 1307, is causing controversy following the translator’s alterations. Valeurs Actuelles reported that Lies […]