Italian Editor Apologizes to Muslims (Prophet Mohd in Hell)

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Italian Editor Apologizes to Muslims​

AP (Associated Press)​

Sun Apr 16, 4:41 PM ET ​

ROME - The editor of an Italian monthly has apologized for any offense to Muslims over a humorous caption for a drawing showing the Prophet Muhammad in hell, Italian news reports said Sunday.​

The journal Studi Cattolici (CatholicStudies), which offers a variety of opinions on cultural issues, ran the caption and drawing in its March issue.​

Italian news agencies on Sunday quoted the journal's editor, Cesare Cavalleri, as "apologizing, as a Christian," for any offense.​

There was no answer at the journal's offices on Sunday, and a copy of the article was not immediately available.​

Milan daily Corriere della Sera said that the journal had run a humorous caption next to the drawing, which was inspired by Dante's depiction of Muhammad in hell in his "Divine Comedy."​

The Union of Italian Islamic Communities said it had protested the caption. The organization's secretary, Roberto Piccardo, declined to comment on the reported apology.​

Cavalleri was quoted as saying the vignette "was interpreted as being anti-Islam when, if anything, it was a denunciation of a cultural identity crisis in the West," the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Cavalleri as saying. "In any case, if, contrary to my and the author's intentions, someone felt offended in his religious feelings, I willingly apologize as a Christian."​

News reports said Cavalleri is a member of Opus Dei, a conservative religious organization that had the favor of the late Pope John Paul. ​

Opus Dei on its Web site said that while it had no responsibility for the magazine, "we desire to apologize for any offense that was made."​

Muslims make up a small percentage of people in predominantly Roman Catholic Italy.​

Earlier this year, a minister in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government was forced to resign after wearing a T-shirt with a caricature of Muhammad on state TV. The incident was blamed for rioting in Libya against Italian interests.​

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Italian Muslims, Catholic Group Blast Prophet Cartoon
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Additional Reporting By Chabani Ibrahim
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ROME, April 16, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – An Italian cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in hell, has drawn rebuke from Muslim leaders in the southern European country and an influential Catholic conservative group.
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"With all the efforts made in the Christian and Muslim worlds for inter-faith dialogue, there are nevertheless always minorities that inflame things and cause provocations," Hamza Roberto Piccardo, an official of the Union of Italian Muslim Communities, was quoted as saying by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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A drawing in the March issue of Studi Cattolici, a magazine reportedly close to the influential Opus Dei group, shows Italian poets Dante Alighieri and Virgil on the edge of a circle of flames looking down on the Prophet, whose body is cut in half down, according to a description by the Italian news agency (ANSA).
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Caption: Piccardo hit out at the "minorities that inflame things and cause provocations."​

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"Isn't that Muhammad?" Virgil is shown asking. "Yes, and he's cut in two because he has brought division to society," Dante replies.
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Mario Scialoja, of the Italian chapter of the World Muslim League, criticized the cartoon's "extreme bad taste."
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There are some 1.5 million Muslims in Italy, the country's fastest-growing immigrant population.
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Islam is the least represented of the monotheistic faiths in Rome’s corridors of power.
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Unlike Judaism, Buddhism and some Protestant denominations, Islam is not officially recognized by the state.
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Church Position
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Caption:"We consider it deplorable that this cartoon should appear in a magazine that has the name Catholic in its title," said Carroggio.​

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Abu Bakr Qidwa, the chairman of the Muslim League in Italy, said Italian ​

Muslims would seek an explanation from the Catholic Church.​

"We will meet as soon as possible with Catholic leaders to know the official stand of the church over this cartoon to determine our future action," he told IslamOnline.net.
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"The cartoon, which was published by this obscure magazine, in no way indicates a widespread drive against Islam nationwide, though every now and then Islam comes under a vile attack."
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Opus Dei, which was founded in 1928, has been a personal prelature of the Catholic Church since 1982.
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Personal prelatures are part of the jurisdictional, hierarchical structure of the Church and exist to carry out specific pastoral missions.
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On 28 November 1982, late Pope John Paul II declared Opus Dei as a personal prelature of international scope.
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Pope Benedict XVI had strongly criticized the publication of twelve Danish cartoons ridiculing Prophet Muhammad, which strained relations between the Muslim world and Denmark.
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Cattolici editor Cesare Cavalleri, a Opus Dei member, defended the cartoon, saying it was inspired by Dante.
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"Sometimes a politically incorrect satirical cartoon can do some good. It's only a reference to a passage in (Dante's) Divine Comedy."
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However, the Catholic conservative group has blasted the drawing and distanced itself from the magazine.
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"We consider it deplorable that this cartoon should appear in a magazine that has the name Catholic in its title," Marc Carroggio, Rome Office of Communications, said in a press release posted on the group's website.
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"Its publication shows a lack of sensitivity and Christian charity."
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Although the statement made it clear Opus Dei has no responsibility for the magazine, it sought "forgiveness for the offense given."
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The Catholic group also expressed solidarity with the Muslim communities of Italy and the world and urged harmony, tolerance, and understanding.
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"Religions and their symbols should be respected and religious sensibilities should not be subjected to ridicule."
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IslamOnline.net launched on March 21 a multi-lingual website to acquaint non-Muslims with the Prophet.
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http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-04/16/article05.shtml
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Note:Silly, Irrelevant, and the like, responses, posts, comments will be ignored (it depends on my mood and time if I won't ignore them), taking off the topic is losers' style losers' fate , ask yourself: will you write such response if the writer wasn't a Muslim!​

 

That's all very sad, it actually makes me feel physically ill. People lining up in droves to throw away their freedom and integrity in the face terrorism and threats of violence. All this proves is that Al Qadia and Bin Laden and the like were right along; the West really is fearful and weak. You don't see Muslims apologising for the murder of innocent women and children during rioting over a cartoon. You don't see muslims apologising for buring down whole neighborhoods or publicly torturing people to death. But let one non-Muslim newspaper publish one cartoon of Muhammad for any reason and look out, the whole world had better apologise to the poor offended Muslims, "I'm sorry Mr. Muslim, I'm sorry I excercised my freedom. I forgot that freedom is illegal under Sharia. Please don't murder my family, friends, and random people from my country. I'll be good from now on I promise, really I swear that I'll never excercise my freedom again." The President of Iran said that even one cartoon of Muhammad is worse than the Holocaust, that's just plain sick. But Muslims the world around agree with him.

Really, and yes this is a serious question: Why do Muslims consider it to be okay to kill random non-Muslims whenever they like but that it is horrible and unforgiveable for non-muslims to publish a cartoon with Muhammad in it?

 

Professor Jumbo​

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Huh! when it becomes to Muslims,People lining up in droves to throw away their freedom and integrity in the face of whatever, How yucky ​

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Do western media broadcast such things! Huh! there was denouncing and the like, if you didn't see or hear one it doesn't mean there wasn't, You don't see Christians / americans, Jews apologising for the murder of innocent women and children in Iraq!!!, palestine, etc!! and by the way, I didn't post this thread because of the apology no! and even if the Muslims didn't apologise why should they do so! those who did such things during rioting over a cartoon should apologise, not all Muslims.​

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That's Cool! Mr. Muslim :H​

 

This goes to prove my theory 17.4 (3) "a": Italians are pussies.

 

Iconoclast​

hahaha that's funny, man​

where can I download the full text of your entire theories on line​

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Yours Sincerely,
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Cat Stevens​

Note:Silly, Irrelevant, and the like, responses, posts, comments will be ignored (it depends on my mood and time if I won't ignore them), taking off the topic is losers' style losers' fate , ask yourself: will you write such response if the writer wasn't a Muslim!​