Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

"I stitched up a comedy on the morals of the harem. As a Spanish author, I thought I could mock Muhammad without a care. Instantaneously, an envoy... from where I don't know, was complaining that I offended by my verses against the Sublime Porte [Ottoman Imperial Court], Persia, part of the peninsula of India, all of Egypt, the kingdoms of Barca, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers [Barbary corsair ports], and Morocco. And right away, my comedy was put to the fire in order to please the Muhammadan princes, not one of whom – I believe –  knows how to read, and who harshly strike our shoulder blades, calling us: Christian dogs...."

What's that all about, then?

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