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| Italy's Northern League seeks a ban on mosques |
| 2008-12-05 |
| Anti-immigration Northern League Party of Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni is seeking a moratorium on the building of mosques as a preventative measure to future terrorist attacks. The demand for blocking mosque building comes as a reaction to the recent arrest of two men suspected for planning attacks in Milan, Italy's northern financial hub. La Stampa, a local Italian newspaper quoted Maroni on Thursday stating that "Islamist terrorism" runs deep in Italy and must be stamped out. "These arrests show that Islamist terrorism is entrenched in Italy, and that we must be vigilant," Maroni told the paper. "Unfortunately it is not easy to distinguish between places of worship and those that recruit terrorists and finance the planning of attacks," he added. Ally of the conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Northern League began a motion in the lower house of parliament banning the construction of places of worship for Muslims and cultural centers in Italy. The motion comes as a preliminary step to curb the increasing number of mosques until parliament passes an official law on their establishment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Can we call fire down on certain areas of the lands of the Pure and of the Meads and Persians first, Ptah? Surely God would agree that those two are more urgent than northern Italy... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-05 22:48 |
| #7 On the other hand, calling fire down from heaven wouldn't be called arson, but an Act of God, no? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-12-05 22:13 |
| #6 heh |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-12-05 18:31 |
| #5 Woozle, we don't endorse arson around here. Back down. AoS |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-12-05 12:24 |
| #4 The Northern League gets it. I would remind them that fire is their friend. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-12-05 11:18 |
| #3 The Northern League gets it more than any other western political party, but they have cause and effect reversed. No muslims then no need for mosques. No need for massive and intrusive security measures to protect the native population from terrorism and islamic colonization. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-12-05 07:20 |
| #2 Muslim mosques are to terrorism what Mustang Ranch was to.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-05 07:00 |
| #1 "Unfortunately it is not easy to distinguish between places of worship and those that recruit terrorists and finance the planning of attacks," No distinguishing necessary. They worship recruiting terrorists and financing the planning of attacks. Easy. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-12-05 01:02 |