with his four wifes tearing him apart to get him to preform his marital duties, like the crusified profeet with no feet to walk elsewhere.
... in Hell, following the example of Dante Aligheiri (1265 - 1321) and his book "The Divine Comedy." In the section entitled "Inferno" (Canto 28), Dante wrote:
"A cask by losing center-piece or cant
Was never shattered so, as I saw one
Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind.
Between his legs were hanging down his entrails;
His heart was visible, and the dismal sack
That maketh excrement of what is eaten. che merda fa di quel che si trangugia
While I was all absorbed in seeing him,
He looked at me, and opened with his hands
His bosom, saying: "See now how I rend me;
How mutilated, see, is Mahomet; vedi come storpiato e Maometto
In front of me doth Ali weeping go, Dinazi a me sen va piagendo Ali,
Cleft in the face from forelock unto chin; fesso nel volto dal mento al ciuffetto
And all the others whom thou here beholdest,
Disseminators of scandal and of schism
While living were, and therefore are cleft thus."
This image of a disemboweled Mohammed inspired 19th Century artist Gustav Doré to produce an illustration for Dante's work that still has a power to shock. It can be seen here. Artist and mystic William Blake depicted the same scene in a watercolor entitled "The Schismatics and Sowers of Discord: Mahomet." Since 1920, this painting has been housed in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
Salvador Dali depicted Mohammed in Hell in a bizarre illustration for Dante's masterwork, which was distributed in Paris by publishers Les Heures Claires in 1959. Dali also portrayed Mohammed receiving his visions in a work from 1963.
In 1911, Italian movie director Francesco Bertolini created an epic movie based on Dante's work. Entitled "L'Inferno", it features a naked Mohammed, with his modesty covered by his hanging guts. The movie can be viewed in its entirety here.
Voltaire did not write his tragedy _Mahomet ou le fanatisme_ as a historical study; he was aware that his fiction was in many respects at variance with history. In writing his work he was, as he himself expresses it, inspired by
"l'amour du genre humain et l'horreur du fanatisme."
He wanted to put before the public an armed Tartufe and thought he might lay the part upon Mohammed, for, says he, "is not the man, who makes war against his own country and dares to do it in the name of God, capable of any ill?" The dislike that Voltaire had conceived for the Qorân from a superficial acquaintance with it,
"ce livre inintelligible qui fait frémir le sens commun à chaque page,"
probably increased his unfavourable opinion, but the principal motive of his choice of a representative must have been that the general public still regarded Mohammed as the incarnation of fanaticism and priestcraft.
Politics: Hobby for multimillionairs djin-owners and their dark satanic overlords;
Cost of US elections; Obama 197.000.000, Clinton 174.000.000 ( end march 2008 )
" Niet sedert de leeuwen slaven aan parten rijten voor 't pezier van het Romeinse pleps was Europa getuige van een schouwspel zo ongepast als het verschijnen van Hirsi Ali voor het EP. Voor het oog der wereld smeekt een vooraanstaand ingezetene van Nederland de wetgeving van Europa om haar te vrijwaaren van assasijnen wier verklaard doel de verwoesting van Europeese vrijheden alsook haar beschaving is"
Source: Blessed are the pre-emptors By Spengler - atimes.com
One might describe Europe’s civil condition as a low-intensity civil war. Outright violence is limited to the sort of rioting by Muslim youth gangs that erupted in France in October 2006, and on a smaller scale in Denmark during the past week. But the threat of violence, including widespread intimidation of public figures, is continuous. Wilders lives under constant police protection. The courageous Ayaan Hirsi Ali, co-maker of the film that cost Theo van Gogh his life in 2004 and the author of a bestselling tract against Islam, remains in constant danger of assassination. Her predicament sets in relief the moral bankruptcy of Europe’s governments.
Not since lions tore apart slaves for the prurient enjoyment of the Roman mob has Europe witnessed a spectacle as revolting as Hirsi Ali’s appearance last week before the European Parliament. She has lived under guard since Theo van Gogh’s murder in 2004. To its shame, the Dutch government has stopped paying for her security. On February 14 she asked the European Parliament to fund her security, saying: "The threats to my life have not subsided and the cost is beyond anything I can pay ... I find myself in a very desperate position. I don't want to die. I want to live and I love life. I'm going to do anything legal to get help."
Before the eyes of the world, a leading citizen of the Netherlands begs the legislature of Europe to protect her against assassins whose declared goal is the destruction of Europe’s liberties as well as its civilization. The Dutch government turns its back. Europe’s Parliament listens politely and refers the matter to committee. A group of French members of parliament has invited her to apply for French citizenship so that the French government might offer her protection.
Thus far, the authorities of Europe have made clear that they will do nothing to prevent the murder of a prominent citizen. If Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose plea to the European Parliament made headlines, can expect no help from the authorities when her life is at imminent risk, what succor can the anonymous victims of Islamist violence expect?
I am ashamed to say that it did not become clear to me that Wilders has taken the only appropriate course of action until I read carefully the Archbishop of Canterbury’s now-infamous "sharia" speech. Stripped of casuistry, he proposed that Muslim women subject to forced marriages, genital mutilation, or domestic violence should be handed over to Muslim religious courts, rather than be offered the protection of English Common Law. To my knowledge, this is the first time that one of Europe’s spiritual leaders has proposed to abandon innocent victims to their fate.
Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams, to be sure, has a point. But he should have stated plainly what he really thinks. What he wanted to say is more or less: "To protect a few hundred or a few thousand colored ladies, the English state will have to put its big boots on, kick down the doors of Muslim homes, trample through Muslim living rooms, tear up the fabric of Muslim communities, and disrupt the social order. Why not turn such cases over to religious courts and wash our hands of them?" I reiterate: this is satanic hypocrisy.
If decent and well-meaning men like Dr Williams are so afraid of communal violence as to abandon the founding principles of common law and Judeo-Christian ethics, it is long past time to debate the fine points. Blessed are the pre-emptors, for they will get on with it.
26 juni 1743 a Pieter Anthony de Huybert n.a.v. vertaling lofdicht Voltaire op Friese politicus Willem van Haren.Voltaire scheef Nederlands: Mijnheer Uwe vertaalling is better dan de andere .. maar ge had daar van de recht copy niet . IK heb de eer van ze u te senden .
u aenmerking op den onderdaen die zich met omzichtigheid? moet gedragen, is al te waragtig ( waarachtig )
Bron: Spiegel Historiael weet niet dat neet, nu net, Fries voor niet is en rekent zulks als spelfout aan "vol spelfouten ... neet voor niet" maar daar moet zeker alleen Geschiedenis voor gedaan hebben ... Daar komt bij dat de Friese ministers tijdens het Ver. Kon. der Ned. niet alleen in Brussel gewoon Frans spraken. In Pruisen ook.
In 1750, Voltaire went to Potsdam to serve Frederick the Great as a court poet and philosopher. He spent three years there, writing and antagonizing the king, and again left on poor terms. By this time, Voltaire was extremely rich, through speculation and bought a chateau in Geneva.
It was at the chateau he named “Les Delices” that he wrote the work he is most famous for, Candide. The local government did not like his presence, so in 1759 he purchased a huge estate close to the French border called Ferney.
Voltaire could now afford to write and concentrate on his passion, attacking Christianity. He considered Christianity to be very detrimental, and wrote many treatises, books, poems, and plays to that effect. He also wrote what many consider to be his best work Philosophical Dictionary. This work, like many of his others, was publicly burned and banned in many areas.
Voltaire returned briefly to Paris in 1778, but due to the trip he died at the age of 84 on May 30. http://www.jeanne-darc.dk/p_multimedia/literature/0_voltaire/00_voltaire_contents.html
Ayaan Hirsi Ali fut une des premières femmes d'origine musulmane, sinon la première, qui a défendu ma position sur le voile islamique en 2003. Je fus pour ma part une des premières femmes d'origine musulmane à la défendre sans aucune réserve après l'assassinat de Theo Van Gogh. Elle est pour moi une âme sœur, une compagne intellectuelle. C'est normal, nous sommes toutes les deux d'origine musulmane et toutes les deux nous défendons le droit de critiquer l'islam et ses dogmes. Nous sommes, aux yeux des musulmans croyants, des apostats. À plusieurs reprises, lorsque la possibilité m'en a été donnée, j'ai dit clairement et publiquement ce que je pensais des menaces des extrémistes musulmans, aussi bien lors de la loi contre les signes religieux à l'école que dans l'affaire des caricatures de Mahomet ou des fatwas prononcées contre des individus d'origine musulmane ou non. Je pense que nous sommes face à une épreuve importante. Il relève de la responsabilité de la France de se mettre en avant et de pousser l'Union européenne à défendre et à protéger Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Je propose que l'Union européenne reconnaisse la fatwa (incitation au meurtre) comme un acte criminel et engage des poursuites internationales contre ceux qui décrètent des fatwas. Le droit de critiquer les religions et leurs dogmes est un droit essentiel, indispensable à l'existence de la démocratie. Des femmes comme Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Taslima Nasreen, moi et bien d'autres mesurons et apprécions la valeur de la laïcité encore plus que ceux qui en ont bénéficié dès leur naissance. La défense d'Ayaan Hirsi Ali est l'affaire des démocraties européennes, mais elle est avant tout l'affaire des intellectuels d'origine musulmane, hommes ou femmes, qui, comme elle, ont eu l'audace, au risque de leur vie, de critiquer l'islam et ses dogmes. Sa sécurité est leur sécurité. N'oublions pas que le premier à lancer une fatwa contre Salman Rushdie fut Khomeyni, le guide de la révolution iranienne, préalablement accueilli et protégé par la France. Du fait de cette erreur historique et politique, la France a une responsabilité particulière : elle a le devoir de défendre et de protéger les victimes des fatwas. Il appartient à la France de prouver que, au-delà du clivage politique gauche-droite, elle reste la patrie des droits de l'homme.
* Auteur de À mon corps défendant, l'Occident (Flammarion) et de Bas les voiles (Gallimard).
Le cabinet Neerlandaise ne veux pas payer et les écrivains Frisons protester serraient dans Iepen brief - lettre ouvert de Frisons écrivains publice par Leeuwarder Courant;
21 Schrijvers op bres voor Ayaan Hirsi Ali; It Nederlânske kabinet hat besletten om de befeiliging fan Ayaan Hirsi Ali op 1 okt. ober 2007 net mear te bekostigjen.
Texte complement sur http://willemschoorstra.web-log.nl/opium_foar_t_folk/2008/01/fjoe.html
Wy fine it beslút yn it foarste plak ûnakseptabel omdat it kabinet in Nederlânske steatsboarger, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, op dizze wize ûnnedich grut gefaar rinne lit. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in frou mei in miening. Dy miening hat se troch de jierren hinne tige kenber makke. Dêr kin men it mei iens wêze of net; dat is de frijheid dy’t elkenien hat. Sa’t Hirsi Ali it rjocht hat om harsels te uterjen. Fanwegen har frijmoedige krityk op religieuze slettenens is hja al faak bedrige. Dat sokke drigementen ferskriklike gefolgen hawwe kinne, bewiist de dea fan skriuwer en filmer Theo van Gogh.
Mar wy fine it beslút ek ûnakseptabel omdat it gefal Ayaan Hirsi Ali op sa’n eksimplaryske wize it rjocht op frije mieningsutering fertsjintwurdiget, ien fan de kearnwearden fan in frije, demokratyske maatskippij. De oerheid fan in frije demokrasy hat de plicht om noed te stean fan de ferkundigers en ferdigeners fan it frije wurd: keunstners, opinymakkers; elkenien dy’t him yn de iepenbierens uteret. As it Nederlânske kabinet de befeiliging fan Hirsi Ali net mear bekostigje wol, jout it in ferkeard sinjaal ôf en ûndergraaft it de demokrasy.
Wy roppe it kabinet dan ek op om syn ferantwurding te nimmen en wer jild frij te meitsjen om Ayaan Hirsi Ali de beskerming te jaan dy’t se spitigernôch nedich hat.
Voltaire scheef Nederlands
