The Divine Comedy is not offensive in those respects. It pretty clearly explains why Judas is where he his and why Muhammad (How the fuck do we spell his name now? I swear it changes every couple of months,)is where he is. In fact, it is more clear than the use of Nigger in Huck Finn because it actually explains what is going on in each level of hell and why the souls in that level are there.
Muhammad's name has always been spelled the same in the language in which it matters.
But yes, as far as Roman alphabet transcriptions without any special letters or diacritical marks go, there's no beating "Muhammad", so no reason to change it again. Deliberate, you bet. Intended to give offense? Stupid.
You may want to work on your reading skills, particularly if you're going to be calling people "ignorant" and "stupid". "The offensive content was deliberate and intended that way" doesn't necessarily mean that it was intended to give offensive; it just means that there is a deliberate and intended message, which as it happens offends modern readers. Which makes it different from incidental racism that is contained in a literary work because the work is describing people who happen to be racist - or because the connotations of a word that is used in the work changed.
Divine Comedy is "offensive and discriminatory", says Italian NGO
- 20/03/2012 07:25:08 PM
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Duh?
- 20/03/2012 07:38:41 PM
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It does kind of feel like we should know more about how it's taught in Italian schools.
- 20/03/2012 07:50:36 PM
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The most ignorant statement of the day.
- 21/03/2012 04:48:39 PM
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Re: The most ignorant statement of the day.
- 21/03/2012 07:42:54 PM
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Isn't the fundamental basis of Christanity mutually exclusive to Judaism and Islam?
- 20/03/2012 08:33:51 PM
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That's a really good point that I hadn't considered. I agree. *NM*
- 22/03/2012 09:05:00 AM
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Just because someone is in Hell doesn't mean you should discriminate against them
- 20/03/2012 08:23:22 PM
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Not having read any Dante is kind of hurting my ability to reply to that. 
- 20/03/2012 10:08:52 PM
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- 20/03/2012 10:08:52 PM
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Odd, considering you linked the "offending passages"
- 20/03/2012 11:54:34 PM
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Yes, well, I was semi-serious with the "pretending to understand Italian".
- 21/03/2012 07:58:35 PM
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- 21/03/2012 07:58:35 PM
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I rather agree with you
- 21/03/2012 10:09:01 PM
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Taking the Divine Comedy off the curriculum would be like taking Shakespeare out in the UK.
- 21/03/2012 10:48:15 PM
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But some works of Flaubert aren't considered OK for compulsory reads...
- 22/03/2012 05:27:04 AM
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The last part of Hell is Giudecca because of Judas.
- 21/03/2012 10:30:36 PM
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And you don't see what's offensive about that?
- 21/03/2012 11:11:16 PM
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You are making an assumption that Dante named it after Jewish quarters.
- 21/03/2012 11:24:47 PM
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Wait, let's be clear just how bat-shit Rick Santorum crazy these assholes are.
- 21/03/2012 01:06:49 AM
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They also dont seem to realize just how many Muslim nations are calling for the eradication of Israe *NM*
- 21/03/2012 04:33:53 PM
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There's some things in that paragraph one can roll one's eyes at, aye - but that's as far as it goes
- 21/03/2012 08:06:32 PM
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Are you serious?! Did you read the whole paragraph?
- 21/03/2012 10:24:56 PM
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I certainly did. Though as it turns out I had not read their other articles...
- 21/03/2012 10:59:51 PM
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I saw that. Seems a little misguided
- 21/03/2012 07:04:06 AM
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That's what they're advocating. And I wouldn't know - they seem to think it is. *NM*
- 21/03/2012 08:08:53 PM
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I think that sometimes people take "politicly correct" tooooo far... *NM*
- 21/03/2012 08:20:31 AM
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Let me sum up my opinion on this as succinctly and clearly as I can:
- 21/03/2012 11:50:37 PM
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