There's a difference between anti-Semitism and a rejection of Judaism, just like Islamophobia is not synonymous with rejecting Islam.
In other words, Huckleberry Finn portrays an ignorant and racist approach to people based on an accident of birth and not any character trait, but a rejection of religious doctrines with which one disagrees is a perfectly valid sentiment because it rejects beliefs and ideas at odds with one's own, ideas that can be accepted or rejected freely. Anti-Semitic statements of an ethnic nature would be on a par with your example, as would anti-Arab statements. However, I think treating a believer's conscious rejection and admonition of non-believers the same as base racism makes an Orwellian parallel.
In other words, Huckleberry Finn portrays an ignorant and racist approach to people based on an accident of birth and not any character trait, but a rejection of religious doctrines with which one disagrees is a perfectly valid sentiment because it rejects beliefs and ideas at odds with one's own, ideas that can be accepted or rejected freely. Anti-Semitic statements of an ethnic nature would be on a par with your example, as would anti-Arab statements. However, I think treating a believer's conscious rejection and admonition of non-believers the same as base racism makes an Orwellian parallel.
The way I see it, despite all the stuff about brotherhood and refraining from murder, even the Abrahamic religions are all mutually exclusive. Mohammed denied the divinity of God. If rejecting the rightfully authority of a worldly ruler is a capital offense, how much more so the Divine Ruler? Thus in a Muslim's eyes, Christians are blasphemously usurping a divine position for their namesake, and to Jews, Mohammedans and Christians are giving undue homage to a couple of Johnny-come-latelys. That's why I loathe those "coexist" bumper stickers. There is no room for that in the sincere practice of any of those religions. And from that point of view "rejection and admonition of non-believers" is an act of kindness and mercy and even duty to your fellow man. Prosletyzing is an act of love, not hatred. And to a certain extent, so is torturing prosletyzers to death.
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
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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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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Excellent point.
- 22/03/2012 11:44:36 PM
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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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