Should Catholics Apologize For Dante?

I have read Dante's Divine Comedy at least times. I don't know why but I just keep coming back to it. It is a wonderful piece of religious contemplation and social commentary in the form of an epic poem.

In the Inferno chapter of Dante's trilogy The Divine Comedy, Mohammed is described as being one of the "Sowers of Discord," showing his entrails to Dante and Virgil in the Eighth Circle of Hell:

Inferno XXVIII, 19-42.

The poets are in the ninth

chasm of the eighth circle, that of the Sowers of

Discord, whose punishment is to be mutilated.

Mahomet shows his entrails to Dante and Virgil

while on the left stands his son Ali, his head cleft

from chin to forelock.

Now Michelle Malkin reports that the Muslims are getting upset because a Catholic magazine has published a political cartoon using this description and they are calling for apologies. I say don't apologize until they apologize for destroying other great works of religious art:

Even more at Michelle Malkin.

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