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August 18, 2009

Mohammed disemboweled in Hell

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It turns out Yale University not only censored the Mo-toons that were the erstwhile subject of Jytte Klausen's The Cartoons That Shook the World but chose to take a further leap into dhimmitude by censoring any and all representations of the false prophet from his book. We are meant to believe that to do otherwise would be to "instigate" violence.

The decision would be farcical were it not so serious. I can think of no greater reward for violence than to surrender before so much as a threat had been made. Such are the craven men of Yale - moral slow-pokes among America's academic elite; quick to offer a student place to a Taliban minister, quicker yet to stifle criticism of Taliban ideology.

Clearly bilious rhetoric is in order. Here is Christopher Hitchens on depictions of Mohammed, the instigation of violence and the rot at Yale University Press (more at the link).

It was bad enough during the original controversy, when most of the news media—and in the age of "the image" at that—refused to show the cartoons out of simple fear. But now the rot has gone a serious degree further into the fabric. Now we have to say that the mayhem we fear is also our fault, if not indeed our direct responsibility. This is the worst sort of masochism, and it involves inverting the honest meaning of our language as well as what might hitherto have been thought of as our concept of moral responsibility.

We are encouraged to pretend respect for an evil ideology and the men who practice it at our expense. It is no accident we are all turned into liars. Making liars and cowards of free men is the aim of the jihadi's campus allies of convenience. Four legs good, two legs bad, omelette, eggs, etc. and so forth.

I am delighted, therefore, to publish three images of Mohammed being disemboweled in Hell as Dante imagined his punishment for a life of evil; illustrations of a passage from Inferno as imagined by William Blake, Gustave Doré (above) and Salvador Dali (the passage in question - Dante's Inferno, Canto 28 - is hardly gripping stuff but infotaining nonetheless).

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Can't get enough Mohammed in Hell: More depictions of Mohammed.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 18, 2009 08:28 AM

Comments

Thanks for the post. If we in the west do not develop backbones and defend our cultures against Islam SOON, Muslims will take it from us, just like they've been trying for years. It's sad to think they could do it simply by mesmerizing liberals into guilt for existing.

Our kids will be wearing burkas if we do nothing.

Posted by: cousinarlo [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 18, 2009 08:42 PM

I really NEED one of those Dali prints...

Posted by: dpatten [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 19, 2009 05:44 PM

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