Nude statues covered in Rome so as not to offend Iranian president

[ronrat]

Well there's some hope, true PC nutters would have thrown them in garbage.

Or labelled them them as objectifying men and women as sex objects and demanding the posthumous excommunication of the renaissance artists. The destruction of Christian war graves monuments in Tobruk and the destruction of Buddha statues in Afghanistan goes unpunished. "art for arts sake,money for gods sake. 10CC

[connda]

The PM is a very 'good' Kafir, perhaps already submitted to Dhimmhitude.

[nottocus]

Its ART and now we start to cover up our european art and lifestyle for a muslim desport and oppressor of human rights

Are we Europeans not getting crazy! Shame on that!!!!!!

It's the lefties mate….gotta protect everyone's human rights and all that rubbish.

[sanukjim]

So if we put nude statues in all the airports we would be protected from any Iranian terrorist at the airports. Does this work on all of that faith ? If so start ordering the stone and hiring the chiselers.

[Norvid 1950]

This is an art!!!! Why don't they cover visitor's eyes with a bag, or something?

[Krataiboy]

Clearly someone got laid-back Iran confused with Saudi Arabia, where male adulterers are flogged and women stoned to death (yep, equality has a ways to go there yet!).

Iranians have been setting regional records recently for sexually transmitted diseases and new HIV cases. Western observers cite the lack of sex education in the republic as a major factor in the epidemic.

Hopefully, the President appreciated the irony of the prissy museum tour.

[northernphil]

They should of taken the president to a different , lower class museum not the one where the nobs hang out.

[Trouble]

Let's see how the West handles Iran when they find that it is breaking the nuclear deal they made with the West. The West will just back down as usual. How we continually bend over backwards for these a holes is beyond me.

[TheKnave]

Q: Who put 7 bullets in Mussolini?

A: 1000 Italian marksmen...

Ok, ok, it's not even on topic, but I think it's funny, and I don't know any wh*re jokes to make it on topic...

[Basil B]

So they covered up the statues, so where did they hang their coats???

[uptheos]

A thong for Michelangelo's David?

What do these people know about art, culture etc, they spend most of their time blowing up priceless images they don't like.

Covering up after all these years after being made is frigging ridiculous!

[Geoffggi]

It is no wonder that the Middle East views the Western countries as being a "Soft Target"

[steve187]

This is an art!!!! Why don't they cover visitor's eyes with a bag, or something?

Yes plastic with a large elastic band at the bottom to keep it in place

[Khon Kaen Dave]

Why the hell is the west cow towing to this person? His, is the country that hang men and women from cranes,stone women for infidelity,and all other sorts of atrocities against their own people.Covering up the statues and not serving wine is an insult to the Italian people.Their art and wine making industries are of world wide renown.To cover up such beautiful works of art for so as not offend some autocratic sand jockey is beyond belief.I cant understand where Italian pride went on this one. Maybe they didn't want to offend him due to the fact that a certain part of Davids anatomy is bigger than his.As for the wine at dinner thing.He should have told them to serve it because it is an Italian custom,and had the sense to graciously decline.

But i suppose once again,its all about oil.

KKD

[Credo]

They are kind enough to cover up their women so we can't see them, the least we can do is cover up our art so he can't see that either.

[geriatrickid]

well that's the west for you.....................no spine.

No that's Italy. The same country implicated in the Iraq oil sanctions busting scheme, the same country that supported Ghadaffi up until Italy's oil supplies were at risk where upon they became a lead in the Libyan intervention, and the same country which has been a haven for for middle east and Iranian money over the years. The Dutch would never do this, nor would the Danish. Even the French wouldn't do this.

[canman]

Yet another example of the inexorable forced subsumation of western culture and ideal's into the political, socialist system that is islam.

When will the sheeple wake up?

"First they took our art and I did not speak up because I was not an artist".

Apologies to Martin Niemoller

[mopar71]

In 2002 under religious fanatic US Attorney General John Ashcroft $8000 of my tax money was spent to cover "breasts" and "loins" on some Art Deco statues that had stood for decades.

That I can't forgive.

Obama Admin Covers Naked Lady Justice

January 17, 2014

While at the Department of Justice, the Obama administration tacitly revealed it was continuing a Bush administration practice that has nothing to do with surveillance: covering the half-naked Spirit of Justice statue.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/368760/obama-admin-covers-naked-lady-justice-andrew-johnson

[slipperylobster]

Romans sure knew how to have fun...

before the dark ages.

Seems we are still in the final days of the dark ages.

[puukao]

i am jewish, black, iranian, semi-blind disabled shemale allergic to 3213432434322343423434 things ....

i call ahead to each country before i visit...

[wabothai]

When the man goes home he will tell and all will laugh their heads of. Stupid Italians !!

[sanukjim]

Q: Who put 7 bullets in Mussolini?

A: 1000 Italian marksmen...

Ok, ok, it's not even on topic, but I think it's funny, and I don't know any wh*re jokes to make it on topic...

Yea Knave,But most of them were confused as which way to shoot.Its why their airplanes had forward and aft cockpits.

[harrry]

what you don't know is the ten women he brought with him covered up from head to toe are Russian hookers.

Who said they were women