MONFALCONE, ITALY: It’s Friday prayers in the northeastern Italian city of Monfalcone, and hundreds of men are on their knees in a concrete parking lo...
It’s Friday prayers in the northeastern Italian city of Monfalcone, and hundreds of men are on their knees in a concrete parking lot, their heads bowed to the ground.
“Tell me where I should go? Why do I have to go outside of Monfalcone? I live here, I pay taxes here!” lamented Haq, a naturalised Italian citizen who arrived from Bangladesh in 2006. “As a mayor, I’m not against anybody, I wouldn’t even waste my time being against anybody, you see, but I’m also here to enforce the law,“ Cisint told AFP.
Islam is not among the 13 religions that have official status under Italian law, which complicates efforts to build places of worship. She asks why Arabic and not Italian is taught in the community centres and calls “intolerable” wives walking behind husbands or schoolgirls in veils.In the run-up to European elections, the League has once again seized on illegal immigration to Italy -- where nearly 160,000 migrants arrived by boat last year, mostly from Muslim countries -- as a vote-winner.
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