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” […]