The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was visiting Rome for a state trip to Italy. On the itinerary was a trip to the Capitoline Museum. In a move that smacks of Dimmitude, the Italian government covered up some of the nude statues.
The Romans have censored themselves to make visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani feel more comfortable during his historic stop in Italy.
Rouhani — the first Iranian leader to visit Europe in almost 20 years — met Tuesday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, but another stop on his agenda was the famed Capitoline Museum, where classic Italian nude sculptures were covered with plain white boards to avoid offending the Muslim president.
Italian news agency ANSA said the nudes were covered out of respect for Rouhani.
Nonetheless, the move wasn’t going over well with many Italians on social media, some of whom lambasted it as “absurd,” and “embarrassing, servile behaviour.”
The Caesars weep at the cowardice of their descendants. Once again, the west bows before Iran and Islam.
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