No mosque here....Grazie...Ciao....

[Roscoe]

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Bureaucrats, Leaguers, Muslims, Readers ...

Here’s a little story from the Italian press that people may have missed. Apparently there are 7,000 Muslims in or around the city of Padova – Padua to English speakers – and they have a mosque, but want another one.

The so-called Northern League are opposed to this. In general terms, the League are either seen as local nationalists, or a bunch of semi-fascists. A document described as 5H4HID.b9(rev1154) offers guidelines on building mosques - nobody can possibly say that the bureaucrats who devised, drafted and now implement such a procedure are not earning their salaries.

Studying the issue for purposes of blocking it, some Leaguers teamed up with a nearby farmer to loose a pig over the ground marked out for the mosque, in the full knowledge that the animal and above all its droppings would make the area unclean for ever. So it proves – no mosque here.

The act is unworthy of Padua, complains the mayor. A spokesman for the Muslims is quoted going further: “They must choose between the Prophet and prosciutto. Islam is very peaceful, but when we are insulted we will turn everyone into sausages.” Bureaucrats, Leaguers, Muslims, readers – who exactly has the last laugh?

http://pryce-jones.nationalreview.co...MxZjg1YjUyNTE=