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Italy: Half-naked statue covered with a sheet for Islamic conference

Apr 17, 2018 12:11 pm By Robert Spencer

This Telegraph story is very sloppily written. “Conservative politicians seized on the case, claiming it was an example of Italy going too far to accommodate the feelings of immigrant communities.”

That would suggest that non-Muslim Italians covered the statue in order to avoid offending Muslims. But then we get this: “‘I covered the statue but only for ceremonial reasons and just for a few hours,’ said Chams Eddine Lahcen, the head of the Islamic Federation of Liguria. He said it ‘clashed with the setting’ of the conference, which was focused on inter-religious dialogue and was designed to ‘bring everyone together.'”

Lahcen is obviously lying: his claim that a half-naked statue “clashed” with a conference that was designed to “bring everyone together” is absurd. But his statement suggests that the Muslim groups, not dhimmi non-Muslims, covered the statue, which would make this not an example of excessive accommodation of Islamic sensibilities. Yet that is the focus of the controversy in the story. What ever happened to journalistic standards?

In any case, that the statue was covered at all, whether it was done by dhimmis or Muslims or both, is another example of the never-failing principle: whenever Islamic sensibilities and those of non-Muslims differ, it is the non-Muslims who must give way. Happens every time.

“Covering up of half-naked warrior statue for Islamic conference in Italy criticised as cultural censorship,” by Nick Squires, Telegraph, April 17, 2018 (thanks to John):

The covering up of a marble statue of a muscular, half-naked Greek warrior for a conference on Islam in Italy has drawn accusations of overly-zealous cultural censorship.

The reclining statue of Epaminondas, a fourth century BC general who fought for the liberation of the Greek city-state of Thebes, was draped in a red satin sheet to spare the sensibilities of Muslim delegates.

Conservative politicians seized on the case, claiming it was an example of Italy going too far to accommodate the feelings of immigrant communities….

The statue is on display in a theatre in the town of Cairo Montenotte, in the northwestern region of Liguria.

A red sheet was draped over it at the weekend for a conference organised by the Islamic Confederation of Italy and the Islamic Federation of Liguria, even though in its original state, a cloth carved from marble covers the general’s genital area.

Organisers denied that religious sensibilities were behind the decision to obscure the figure’s nether regions.

“I covered the statue but only for ceremonial reasons and just for a few hours,” said Chams Eddine Lahcen, the head of the Islamic Federation of Liguria.

He said it “clashed with the setting” of the conference, which was focused on inter-religious dialogue and was designed to “bring everyone together”….

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  1. Halal Bacon says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:14 pm

    Well of course, one of the attendees might try and fornicate with said statue

    • mgoldberg says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 2:09 pm

      No… that is incorrect.
      They smash the statue then the adrenaline dump from smashing the statue forces them to rape and
      abuse a lady in the street.
      Then the police state they have no motive for the events

      • Linda says

        Apr 17, 2018 at 2:52 pm

        I don’t know. They have sex with corpses, with animals, with women 9 to 90, … they just might try it with an inanimate object like a statue, too.

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Apr 17, 2018 at 8:22 pm

          Youtube has lots of clips of Mohammadan men doing just that. Just search on the string: “Muslim fondling mannequin.”

    • Richard says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 3:47 pm

      Good one! Funny as hell!!

    • Save Europe says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 8:38 am

      Watch this ! ?

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9DAx1cTnJQ

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 6:20 pm

      You aren’t wrong. Here’s a Muslim molesting a mannequin in a shopping mall:

  2. krishna says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    don’t they cover the statue face

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:26 pm

    Was the male nudity a temptation for the Muslim males?

    • Eur says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 1:42 pm

      Of course. Muslims are repressed homosexuals. There is nothing wrong with being gay, but there is nothing worse in this world than a repressed person … like the conservatives who vote against gays and then they are on gay dating sites. Muslims are homosexual.

      • Save Europe says

        Apr 18, 2018 at 8:40 am

        It is most bizarre. I had the misfortune of being in Kuwait once. Many men actually hold hands! Not joking!

    • Aaron says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 7:16 pm

      Very good question
      Anybody out there have an answer

  4. Jan Sobieski says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    Who chopped off the sphinx’s nose? Who defaced the Egyptian wall carvings? Was it to help interfaith dialogue?

    • Strangerinastrangeland says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 6:25 pm

      Well, I agree with your overall sentiment, but Napoleon’s artillery blew the nose off the Sphinx.

      • Robert Spencer says

        Apr 17, 2018 at 8:15 pm

        No, he didn’t. That’s a historical myth propagated by Muslims. Get the truth about this and more in my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.

        • Paul says

          Apr 18, 2018 at 8:22 am

          Errrrrr…
          What about British soldiers using the Sphinx for target practice. That’s what we in England were taught.

          Paul

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 18, 2018 at 6:50 pm

        You are incorrect, Strangerinastrangeland and Paul.

        In fact, it was France and Britian that spearheaded the modern study of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts, which led to the founding of the discipline of archeology.

        The damage to the Sphinx much predated the arrival of either French or British troops to Egypt, dating most likely to the late 14th century, and had nothing to do with Infidels.

        https://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html

  5. somehistory says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:45 pm

    A moslim felt he had the authority to cover it. He got away with it. that;s all they need to go further…getting away with ‘little’ things.

    • mariam rove says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 12:52 pm

      That is right. Little things. Inch by inch, they are trying to take over. M

      • revereridesagain says

        Apr 17, 2018 at 3:21 pm

        “Inch by inch” — I think it’s you-know-what envy. Muslim “males” don’t have any. Even a statue makes them feel inadequate, because they are. Fortunately, goats and camels aren’t fussy.

        Seriously, what are the European she-males going to do about it when they start smashing statues? Hide them and other “haram” art work in caves like they did when the Nazis came? Wait for the real men to come and chase the Islamonazis away? Where do they plan to find the real men?

        • blitz2b says

          Apr 18, 2018 at 9:34 am

          This signals the beginning of the end of art all over Europe.
          Both male and female nudity is proliferate in renaissance art all over Europe, because artists were not bound by narrow mindedness but rather found beauty in the nude human form as a thing to be flaunted.

          In fact for a time the Church even allowed nudity, as a marvel of the creator’s handiwork to be depicted as art on ceilings and walls of places of worship, that can still be seen everywhere across Christendom Europe.

          Unfortunately with the rise of Islam and the imminent takeover of Europe by the stringently narrow minded cult of Mohammed, all these precious art forms are at risk of being obliterated or destroyed forever.

          But these thoughts seem oblivious to leftist politicians who are willing to sacrifice a whole civilization it’s heritage and culture on the altar of “cultural enrichment” from barbaric Islamic Islamic hellholes.

    • james collins says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 2:12 pm

      Muslim privilege … alive and well

  6. Benedict says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 12:54 pm

    “Half-naked statue covered with a sheet for Islamic conference.”
    ……..

    That’s moderate Islam. Next stage is radical Islam which will smash such sculptures to pieces. The Sistine Chapel is doomed in an islamized Europe.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 6:52 pm

      Grimly true.

  7. Tjhawk says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    A perfect example of incompatibility, but hey,

    “DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH”

    Can’t wait to see a niqab painted over Mona Lisa’s smile.

  8. Tyler says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 1:16 pm

    The only way they wouldn’t cover it is if the statue was trying to force sex on a woman.

  9. infidel says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 1:17 pm

    Animal Muslim from Bangladesh rapes and burns alive a 12 year old in India’s Northeastern state of Assam

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/assam-two-minors-man-gang-rape-class-v-girl-set-her-on-fire/articleshow/63440909.cms

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 7:12 pm

      This *poor little girl*.

      God, I hate Islam.

  10. duh swami says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    Modesty…The WWE is going to Saudi Arabia next month…
    How will the religious police handle all those health, half naked wrestlers especially the females…Who will make up the audience?
    Will all that unccovered meat drive them into a frenzy? Are we having fun yet?

    • Tjhawk says

      Apr 17, 2018 at 1:43 pm

      WWE in Saudi??!! WTF!! That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day!!

      • WPM says

        Apr 18, 2018 at 6:00 pm

        A fake violent sport perform in a country that finances real violence throughout the world what could be more surreal then that!

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2018 at 9:42 pm

          Islam certainly makes pro wresting look civilized and refined in comparison.

  11. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 1:29 pm

    I had to look up some information about Epaminondas. The Romans considered him to be one of the greatest generals of all time. He’s not very well known today. Maybe some of the Muslims will ask about him and they can learn about his brilliance at the Battle of Leuctra and the role the Sacred Band of Thebes played in defeating the Spartans. I’m sure they will enjoy hearing all about the Sacred Band of Thebes (and the Spartans) too.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 7:27 pm

      Sarcasm, no doubt. Of course, Muslims care nothing about “worthless Jahillya”.

  12. Salah says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 1:44 pm

    Muhammad and Nudity

    Sunan al-Tirmidhi سنن الترمذي 2732

    قدم زيد بن حارثة المدينة ورسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في بيتي فأتاه فقرع الباب فقام إليه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عريانا يجر ثوبه والله ما رأيته عريانا قبله ولا بعده فاعتنقه وقبله

    Chapter 32

    About embrace and kiss

    Sayyidah Aisha (RA) narrated: When Zayd ibn Harithah came to Madinah, Allah’s Messenger (SAW) was in my home. He came and knocked at the door. Allah’s Messenger (SAW) stood up naked, dragging his garment. By Allah, I have never seen him naked before that or after that. He embraced him and kissed him.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/03/muhammad-and-nudity-mahomet-et-la.html

  13. Ren says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    Dhimmis know what they have to do.

  14. Cheer Bear Girl says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 3:56 pm

    Muslims do not belong in western civilization. They should go back home where everything is Islamic.

  15. Wellington says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 4:01 pm

    Forget Epaminondas and even the battles of Leuctra (371 B.C.) and Mantinea (362 B.C.). Imagine if the Theban Sacred Band had been “exhibited.” Ah yes, heaps and heaps of coverings would have been required then. Loads.

    Islam is a collective idiot (and hypocrite—yes, definitely think of the “pearly boys” while ignoring the slightly lesser hypocrisy, i.e., the 72 virgins) and a distorter of true history. So is dhimmi submission to Islam. Which is worse is a judgment call. I think the latter for the reason being that exculpating or indulging idiocy and malevolence is actually the more objectionable option than the “real deals” themselves.

  16. DHazard says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 4:26 pm

    Islam sucks all the joy and celebration out of life and replaces it with boring platitudes, suffering and early death.

  17. Aaron says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 7:20 pm

    I’m take offense to my culture being disrespected by this action

  18. Terry Gain says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 8:23 pm

    Seriously folks. In all fairness to people like Itace Muhammad, we infidels need to be cognizant if the fact that a statue of a naked woman could create a Sexual Emergency. We should be more considerate of the needs of members of this Great Abrahamic Religion.

    • WPM says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 6:07 pm

      Does not have to be a fully naked woman it can be a statue of a man naked from the waist up (like this statue} or a live goat or donkey! Never let people who cannot control their sexual urges to be in charge of anything more complicated then a mop and bucket ! Mohammad care taker of the god of fill any hole with your penis.

  19. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    A few years ago the same thing happened. I believe it was the Capitoline Museum covered (boxed up) a statue because a Mohammadan dignitary was attending some event in the building. I wrote the head curator and told him/her that this statue belongs to all of the civilized world and that if they didn’t respect our collective culture/heritage there were lots museums in North America that would love to take it on loan or permanently. Didn’t get a response.

  20. 6woods says

    Apr 17, 2018 at 8:50 pm

    This is too funny. They didn’t cover the “naked” part of the statue, they covered the part that was already covered by a carved blanket, and in so doing, they chose a shiny red cloth that looks like bordello drapery. Islam breeds idiots and hypocrites.

  21. Peterson says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 12:59 am

    Should have shown the original statue so that we should know what these savages are afraid of

  22. Baucent says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 2:44 am

    There are an awful lot of statues throughout Europe and in public places that are going to be covered up in years to come. And not just the ones without clothes.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2018 at 7:38 pm

      And Muslims will start blowing them up.

  23. Mike says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 3:11 am

    Next time cover the islamists , rather.Especially if he is a philosopher ……called Tariq .

  24. Rufolino says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 3:33 am

    Europe betrays itself and doesn’t even know it !

    But this is nothing. In a few year’s time such statues will be smashed by Europe’s new masters.

  25. Terra Nova says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 5:03 am

    The man must have been afraid that the muslims would become exited, and would go out on a gang rape, and they would blame him. What is waiting for us?……. Not a pretty gift by the people of “peace”
    And there are more horrible people waiting, they all are having their own program.

  26. gravenimage says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 6:11 pm

    Italy: Half-naked statue covered with a sheet for Islamic conference
    …………………..

    The greatest irony is that this is a statue of a figure who fought for freedom. No chance of that with these dhimmis…

  27. Roderick MacUalraig says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    SHAME ON ??.

  28. gravenimage says

    Apr 18, 2018 at 7:31 pm

    True, Jay Boo–there is nothing modest or moral about Islam.

  29. WPM says

    Apr 19, 2018 at 9:22 am

    Regular men are not running Europe at this time ,OWG the EU runs Europe get out of line regular men lose your job , and or go to jail that is the order of the day.,

  30. Granddaddy says

    Apr 19, 2018 at 9:26 pm

    Personally, I think this is funny. They’ll shrink away from the statue of the guy showing the world his balls. But they won’t bat an eye at a grown man having sex with the little girl or a father murdering his daughter.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2018 at 9:39 pm

      True, Granddaddy–the idea that Muslims are moral and modest is false.

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