France is Not a Western Country Anymore

Abu@Redux, Donnerstag, 06. November 2003, 02:56 (vor 7862 Tagen) @ Franz

"..Southern France has more mosques than churches.
In Lyons, Muslims demanded that Islamic law be
observed for swimming. Food for thought —
especially for Europeans who still do not regard
Islam as a threat to Western civilization.

1. Richard Owen reported in The Times of London
that Muslim leaders in Italy are demanding the
removal or destruction of a priceless 15th Century
fresco in Bologna because it offends Islam. This
may threaten the already strained relations
between the Roman Catholic Church and members of
Italy´s immigrant Muslim community.

The recently established Union of Italian Muslims
has written to the Pope and Cardinal Giacomo
Biffi, the Archbishop of Bologna, complaining that
"The Last Judgment" of Giovanni da Modena in
Bologna Cathedral, clearly shows Mohammed, the
founder of Islam, among those condemned to burn in
eternal flames. In the letter they called for the
"barbarous" fresco to be removed from the wall of
the chapel inside the cathedral of San Petronio.
The protesters said that Giovanni da Modena had
shown Mohammed "thrown into hell, completely
naked, with a snake wrapped around his body and a
demon next to him about to torture him." They
claimed that Muslims "never had depicted Jesus or
the Virgin Mary" on the walls of a mosque. True,
Muslims do not depict human beings or animals on
the walls of mosques, and do not regard Jesus as
born of a virgin. A spokesman for Cardinal Biffi
claimed that it was "absurd to suddenly discover
after 600 years that our most famous treasure is
offensive to the Islamic religion." Meanwhile, the
leader of the "Union of Italian Muslims", Adel
Smith, has demanded that the teaching of Dante,
Italy´s national poet, be banned in immigrant
areas because he placed Mohammed in the ninth
circle of Hell in his "Inferno."
Southern France has more mosques than churches. In
Lyons, Muslims demanded that Islamic law be
observed for swimming. Food for thought —
especially for Europeans who still do not regard
Islam as a threat to Western civilization.."


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