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This guy and Berlusconi have huge brass ‘coglioni’.
Ex- minister in fresh Islam row
Calderoli calls for ‘pig day’ against new mosques
(ANSA) - Rome, September 13 - An opposition ex-minister who stoked international Muslim anger a year ago fired off a fresh broadside at Islam on Thursday by calling for a ‘pig day’ battle against mosque building on Italian soil. Northern League heavyweight Roberto Calderoli, who was reform minister under the previous, Silvio Berlusconi-led government and is now deputy Senate speaker, said pigs should be brought in to thwart plans for the construction of a major mosque in Bologna.
“I place myself and my pig at the disposal of those who are against this mosque. We will walk up and down on the land where they want to build, after which it will be considered ‘infected’ and no longer suitable,” Calderoli said.
He said he had used the same tactic with success in another northern city, Lodi.
“In future, we should organise a ‘pig day’ where the best pigs will be kept in places where they are thinking of putting up buildings which are not places of worship but potential centres for harbouring terrorist cells,” he said.
Calderoli also said he would deliberately eat pork on Thursday to “annoy” Muslims beginning their month-long Ramadan fast.
Welfare Minister Paolo Ferrero immediately condemned Calderoli’s comments.
“I apologise on behalf of all civilised Italians to Muslims living in Italy,” Ferrero said.
In February 2006, Calderoli was forced to quit as reform minister after he sported a T-shirt emblazoned with the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which at the time were causing a wave of international Muslim protests.
Calderoli’s act was followed by violent demonstrations in Libya in which the Italian consulate in Benghazi was attacked. Some 15 people were killed after local police opened fire on a crowd trying to storm the consulate.
Calderoli’s populist Northern League party has frequently caused polemics with intolerant stances against Muslims and immigrants in general.
In the wake of the September 2001 terror attacks on the US, the party demanded that mosques and Islamic centres be shut down and Italy’s frontiers closed to Muslims.
More recently, a League member called for the expulsion of Muslim immigrants who could not be ‘vouched for’ by an Italian citizen. The party has also spearheaded campaigns to ban burkas and veils in public.
ANTI-MOSQUE BATTLE HEATS UP.
Bologna’s mosque would be built on the outskirts of the city to replace an old one which is now too small for the local Muslim population.
The Northern League and other critics have fought the project from the start, calling for a referendum and organising other forms of protest such as a bid to buy the land on which the mosque is to be built.
A similiar campaign is being waged in Genoa, where local members of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party joined forces with far-right militants on Wednesday night to recite an “anti-mosque rosary”.
The protesters prayed to the Virgin Mary for her “help in illuminating the minds of local councillors” in favour of the mosque.
Top Forza Italia MP Isabella Bertolini said on Thursday that “the proliferation of mosques and Koranic schools in Italy must be stopped immediately, starting with Bologna. Our land is contaminated with thousands of these dangerous spreading cancers which are centres for recruiting fanatics to be martyred in the holy war which Islam is waging against the West”.
Interior Minister Giuliano Amato slammed the mosque critics, saying that their comments left him “bitter and worried”.
“Nowhere else in the world does such an attitude to Muslims prevail, not even in countries which have been directly affected by fundamentalist terrorism,” he said.
He blamed fear and prejudice for the phenomenon.
“This fear is typical of closed and ageing populations for whom diversity in itself is a threat... and it is combined with a cultural predisposition, opinions which have hardened into prejudices,” Amato said.
The minister also issued an open letter to Muslim residents to mark the start of Ramadan in which he stressed that “Italy recognises and guarantees religious freedom and has a positive view of the role faith can play in individual growth and the development of social harmony.
“We look with respect on this month of fasting, prayer and reflection in the hope that the true spirituality expressed by Ramadan may be confirmed in sentiments of peace and solidarity and the desire for dialogue and harmony”.
According to an annual survey carried out in five top Italian cities - Milan, Rome, Bologna, Palermo and Naples - fear of Muslim immigrants is on the rise.
The survey showed that 28% approved of building new mosques, compared to 49% in 2006 and 61% in 2005.
Almost 30% of respondents said they were against the centres because they viewed Islam as a dangerous religion while 24% said they fomented terrorism.
Only 28% said they favoured giving the vote to legally resident immigrants against 51% in 2006 and 63% in 2005.
A quarter of respondents admitted that they were more afraid of Muslim immigrants now than they were a year ago.
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-09-13_113138718.html
I like this guy already.
I wonder if those same “outraged” Muslims were outraged when their brothers murdered that Italian nun in Somalia last year.
You mean to tell me Islamofacists will vanquished by swine ? Let me introduce you to my little fat friends .
The pig says, "I find Islam insulting"
This is outrageous. Why didn’t we think of it?
Pig Day? Dang but that’s a good idea. The Italians get it. We need to have pig parades in Detroit.
Eye-talians do love their pork products.
Muslims are in a permanent state of Irk.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,241897,00.html
Texas Man Stages Pig Races to Protest Islamic Neighbor’s Plans to Build Mosque
Apparently not. Too bad, that.
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That’s ....just....so......horribly.....insensitive...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
sorry - couldn’t help it
An anit-terrorism idea!
Hang sides of bacon at all entrances to airports, rail stations, etc. This might work !
Peace loving Muslims angry about something. Now, THAT is news!
Pig Day!! I like it!!
Yes! In honor of ‘Blackjack’ Pershing.
One important thing to remember is that Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won’t even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from paradise and doomed to hell.
Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks against the United States and it’s interests by, you guessed it, Muslim extremists.
So General Pershing captured 50 of the terrorists and had them tied to posts execution style. He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the, now horrified, terrorists.
The soldiers then soaked their bullets in pigs blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad.
The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist’s bodies and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc.
They let the 50th man go. And for about the next 42 years, there was not a single attack by a muslim fanatic anywhere in the world.