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June 7, 2005
Italian Minister urges fines over Muslim robe as Bush urged not to play the dhimmi
There's evidence from both sides of the pond that some are begining to sense that playing dhimmi isn't conducive to the continued existence of current Western culture and the existing character of it's nations.
From Reuters via Dhimmi Watch:
ITALY'S justice minister, a member of the right-wing Northern League party, was today accused of fuelling anti-Islamic sentiment in Italy after saying he would fine women wearing the all-covering burka.
Roberto Castelli said an Italian law banning the covering of a person's face in public would be applied to women wearing the full-length religious robe that hides the head and face. "To go around with your face covered is a crime, you can't do it." he told reporters.
"Women who do so must be reported to the police and fined."
Mr Castelli's outburst is the latest in a series to make headlines as overwhelmingly Catholic Italy comes to grips with a growing Muslim population some see as a blessing for the economy and others as a threat.
Opposition politicians demanded his resignation and that of other Northern League ministers, whose party has come to be defined by its anti-immigrant rhetoric...
Italy, with a population of 57 million, is home to an estimated one million officially registered Muslims, making Islam the country's second-largest religion.
But social services groups say the number is much higher and growing...
And Castelli also had something to say about the Fallaci trial travesty:
A judge last month ordered celebrated Italian writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci to stand trial on charges of defaming Islam in a recent trilogy written in response to the September 11 attacks on US cities.
In the books, which sold more than one million copies in Italy, she complained that Muslim immigrants had "multiplied like rats".
Mr Castelli said the author, who lives in New York, would not be found guilty because the Government would change the defamation law to clear her, local news agencies ANSA and AGI reported.
Meanwhile in the U.S., some Bush advisors are advising the President to "never apologize" in addressing allegations from radical Muslims.
"Bush urged: 'Never apologize' to Muslims," (via Dhimmi Watch)
Some members of the Bush administration have taken a cue from a classic John Wayne Western and are advising their boss to take the film's advice - "Never apologize" - when dealing with Muslims, reports geopolitical analysts Jack Wheeler....
It's that attitude that some employees of the Pentagon, State Department and White House are urging President Bush to take when dealing with charges of Quran desecration and other allegations from radical Muslims. They've even sent a DVD copy of the film to the commander in chief.
"Their numbers are small," explains Wheeler, "but they are seriously sick and tired of squishing-out to the hadjis (the nickname our soldiers give the Muslim terrorists in Iraq and their sympathizers - pronounced 'hah-geez,' referring to the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca called the hadj). These sympathizers now include not just rioters on Pakistani streets but Newsweek magazine and Amnesty International.
"'The more we kiss the hadjis' tushes, the more they denounce us and the less they respect us,' one of them told me. 'Just take a look at the DOD's procedures for the handling and inspecting of detainee Korans . You won't believe how impossibly respectful and careful they are. What good does this do us? All we get is lies, lawsuits and riots in return.'"
As Robert Spencer of Dhimmi Watch suggests, "Conciliation is only seen as a sign of weakness. And in this case, it may be just that: weakness." And it's also showing a great weakness of national character to cowtow to Muslims in allowing them to "Islmacize" one's national culture and character.
cross posted by Hyscience
Posted by Richard at June 7, 2005 6:44 PM
