Its the dilemma between keeping historical literature intact despite its controversial and possibly inciteful passage vs translating/adapting it to be more poli

Its the dilemma between keeping historical literature intact despite its controversial and possibly inciteful passage vs translating/adapting it to be more politically correct for the present day audience. In this Dutch translation, they chose the latter. "when Dante enters Hell, he visits the nine concentric circles. He then meets the many people - some of whom are historical figures - who are punished there for their sins. Arrived at the eighth circle, the poet meets the prophet Muhammad, punished " because by spreading his religion he would have sowed discord on Earth " reports the Belgian daily De Standaard. This passage has thus been partially amputated in the new translation." "The goal of the publisher was to make L'Enfer accessible to a public. wider possible, and especially the young audience, and we knew that if we left this passage as it is we would have unnecessarily hurt a large part of the readers. The passage has been preserved, but the name of Mahomet has been deleted".