Muhammad In Hell! New Cartoon Uproar!

As if the Danish cartoon controversy was not enough, now an Italian magazine has published a cartoon of Muhammad burning in hell! Here is more from a news24report:

According to the Italian news agency Ansa, the cartoon shows the Italian poets Dante Alighieri and Virgil on the edge of a circle of flames looking down on Muhammad, whose body is cut in half.

"Isn't that Muhammad?" Virgil is shown asking Dante.

"Yes, and he's cut in two because he has brought division to society," replies Dante.

Cartoons by 12 artists, first published in a Danish newspaper in September and later reprinted in a number of other mainly European dailies, sparked Muslim protests worldwide.

Studi Cattolici editor Cesare Cavalleri said: "I hope the publication of this drawing won't lead to attacks, because if that happened it would only prove the idiotic positions of Islamic extremists.

"Sometimes a politically incorrect satirical cartoon can do some good. It's only a reference to a passage in (Dante's) Divine Comedy.

"In any case, Muhammad was sent to hell by Dante." Source.

Muhammad was sent to hell by Dante? Since when was Dante given such authority?

There had been talk about muslim fanatics making Jerusalem the headquarters of the worldwide caliphate, but after Dante's excommunication of Muhammad to hell, perhaps Rome is the more likely site?