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Italy: Defense minister warns Muslims to 'stop provocations'

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/01/italy-defense-minister-warns-muslims-to.html

"What would have happened if a group of Christians gathered together to pray with a rosary before Mecca? They probably would have been stoned," said La Russa, who described himself as a practicising Catholic who attends Mass almost every Sunday."

Posted by: Péguy at January 12, 2009 11:20 AM

Bravo Signore De Corato!

Posted by: kaffirchick at January 12, 2009 11:20 AM

Heres hoping the Carabinieri crack some skulls next time Muhammadans defile some of Christendom's most holy sites.

Posted by: km at January 12, 2009 11:22 AM

Damn those Iti's. How dare they demand anything of muslims, except for taking control. I hope that Italians keep up this stance. Wonder how long before the EU get involved in this clear case of national sovereignty.

Posted by: Kevin at January 12, 2009 11:22 AM

Hooray for commonsense.
The unhappy moslems should get back to the ME as quickly as possible. They can help their moslem brothers from there.
Get out.

Posted by: interestinconundrum at January 12, 2009 11:38 AM

Why does Italy not just kick them all out? Only 10,000 of them are citizens and all of those are converts.

Posted by: jdamn at January 12, 2009 11:46 AM

Fanaticism is the fanatic's Achille's Heel. It makes them clueless in many ways. They exult in the fear they create in the West. What they don't realize is that people HATE what they fear and that hatred will eventually come down on Islam like a ton of bricks.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at January 12, 2009 11:57 AM

If a group of Christians gathered to pray in front of a mosque they would be torn limb from limb.

Posted by: Silvester at January 12, 2009 12:12 PM

Good for Italy! Perhaps this will inspire some of the other "world leaders".

One can always hope.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at January 12, 2009 1:12 PM

In Italy the politics is ofter very polarized.
So, when the Muslims will dare to piss of enough people, they will be kicked so hard they will not know what hit them.
It will be all touchy and feeling until they touch some little trigger, like killing someone important (an local union leader for example).

Be there, see this.
The same happenend in the '70, with the Brigate Rosse. The PCI (communists) was all sympathetic with them and in full deny mode (there was no Brigate Rosse, only "alleged" Brigate Rosse).

When the BR killed a unionist of the CGIL (leftist union) opposing them in a factory, the PCI changed from appeaser to "there is no quarter" in few weeks.

Posted by: painlord2k at January 12, 2009 2:28 PM

Painlord2k, I think they're mostly on the same page these and because of exactly this kind of stuff. Again, only 10,000 Muslims in Italy - max - can vote. Christianity will be Italy saving grace and they may very well be the only nation to survive Eurabia. La Lega Nord is gaining a lot of ground and will only continue to do so in this sort of climate.

Also, the PCI sold out as much as the DC. You apparently only read the first part of the story. After the Grande Compromessa and the execution of Aldo Moro was when the "there is no quarter" stuff began. Also, the Brigate Rosse were PCI 'estraparliamentari.' The leftists controlled the media and tried to pin it, along with every terrorist act committed by leftist terrorists, on the right. Yes, there were terrorists on the right, but not nearly as many as there were scapegoats. Clearly, we see this same phenomenon continue to happen every day, that is, unless you believe in Hindu Zionist Crusader Neocons Who Are Party to the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

Posted by: jdamn at January 12, 2009 2:53 PM

Courageous Italians Riccardo de Corato, Gianfranco Fini and Silvio Berlusconi are heroes of the Western civilization. Viva Italia!
Our American people who insist on calling themselves "great" had committed the worst blunder in this nation's history last year by dumping our own awesome Italian, Rudy Giuliani. Horror! Horror! A year after, I am even more dismayed at the swiftness of the catastrophe: The Republican primaries began last January, and before the month was over, Rudy was out! The destiny of this country was sharply altered for the worse by its own citizens. I have this uncanny feel for global events. The Beirut blow-ups and 9/11 I foresaw. Just 7 months before 9/11 I sent a ferociously-worded essay to both The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer confidently predicting that the cowardly appeasement of the Muslims at the expense of Israel by the US and Europe will lead to a jihad attack deadlier than Pearl Harbor that very year. The essay was apparently too "controversial" for both newspapers to print. Well, was I right or was I right? And I predicted on this very site on May 23, 2007 that the US will goad its man Saakashvili in Georgia into attacking separatists and Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia, and that this will backfire on the US. It was more than a year before those events actually occured.
That same unmistakable sense told me that Rudy is one of those great Italians who come from time to time to be the best in the world at what they do, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Benvenutto Cellini, Antonio Stradivari, Niccolo Paganini and Enrico Fermi. But was this kind of insight needed to appreciate Rudy? No, really? It is well-known that the vast majority of American people are ignorant, to which Americans themselves readily admit. But how ignorant can one be not to know about Rudy? The greatest things he did were before 9/11 and the valiant leadership he demonstrated on that horrible day. Under his 4 predecessors, the New York City was widely called "ungovernable". But look how Rudy turned it around! He cleaned the nightmarish metropolis up, slashed taxes, yet turned unrepayable debt into a large surplus, cut overall crime by two-thirds and homicide by more than four-fifts. As I said here before, he turned NYC from a huge unholy Babylon into Jerusalem of Gold. Even 9/11 failed to derail it. Rudy's hand-picked successor Bloomberg was just good enough not to ruin Rudy's good works. In the horror year of 1990, there were 2244 homicides in NYC. In 2007, 428. This is Rudy's lasting impact. If he did this for NYC, imagine what he would do for the entire country! We could use his extraordinary abilities during these difficult times of crisis and disaster, both domestic and international.
But the miracle did not happen because of the mass stupidity attack the American people collectively had last year. Some blame this on Rudy's ineptly run election campaign. But did he even have to campaign at all?! Wasn't his putting his name on the ballot enough?!! Not to the American herd who like to be sweet-talked and charmed. Rudy honestly promised what he actually intnded to do: identify every illegal alien in the US; take fight to the jihadists alongside Israel. The herd was indifferent. It wanted pomposity, demagogery, the "Mister Cheap Applause" act. As the witty columnist Maureen Dowd put it: "The more he wooed, the more they booed". One needs skills of a zoologist - or a sociopath - to learn to treat the American herd so they moo you, not boo you, or kick you.
As I said here before, I enjoy my fellow Americans, the friendliest people on Earth, every day. There is no other people I would rather live among. But there are certain weaknesses and faults that most of them share, and one is deference to sociopaths among us. These are reflected even in popular sayings: "It is not what you say, but how you say it"; "Style over substance"; "Tell me something I want to hear". Those traits practically invite manipulation by sociopaths, who are all about manipulation. And those traits all came forth in the last year's election, resulting in the greatest electoral disaster in the history of the United States of America. The great man who could have broken the Carter curse and rescued this country was swept aside. Instead, one no-good is about to replace another. The nightmare continues, with no flicker of light ahead.

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at January 12, 2009 3:25 PM

Bravo Signore De Corato , Basta e Basta Enough is enough, sono fiero.

Posted by: decanus at January 12, 2009 5:53 PM

That was incredibly moving and so true, Enraged. Giuliani was always my man, but I think that American conservatives all sensed that they had made a grave error when Giuliani spoke at the RNC.

Posted by: jdamn at January 12, 2009 9:45 PM

Why does the media call these events protests? These are not protests, they are riots or rebellions. It should be called what it is and it should be illegal.

Posted by: American at January 13, 2009 3:03 AM