Behead the pope! September 19, 2006
Posted by dorigo in Blogroll, internet, italian blogs, language, news, politics.trackback
The rage of the muslim world, apparently caused by pope Joseph Ratzinger’s speech of last week, but more precisely due to the commentary of those words made by influential spiritual heads in the islamic world, is spreading worldwide.
Despite Ratzinger’s attempts at pacifications, with his explanation that his words were quotations and not his own thought, the reaction has been violent and more sudden than that over the cartoons insulting Mohammed appeared on a Danish newspaper a while ago. A catholic nun has been shot dead in Somalia the other day, and two churches were attacked with incendiary devices.
Hamza Boccolini, from AdnKronos international, found in islamic sites in the web a series of cartoons whose subject is pope Ratzinger. None of them is exactly adulatory, but one in particular is striking.
In it, the pope is camouflaged as Dracula, and arabic writing surrounding him can be allegedly translated as: “pig slave of the cross”, “he worships a monkey nailed on the cross, hateful evil”, “lapidated Satan”, ”blood-sucking vampire”, “Behead him”.
The cartoon can be seen in an italian site: http://213.215.144.81/public_html/articolo_index_26605.html . You will pardon me if I do not broadcast it here – nothing against cartoons, but I prefer to avoid violating the copyright law of some islamic fundamentalists…
This episode reminds me the rage of muslim world about the Jillands Posten cartoons concerning Mohammad… Well, good education would dictate that if A pretends B to not publish cartoons on A’s favourite prophet, then A should not publish cartoons on B’s CEO of god…
Oh well, time to write the report on my work…