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How Italy deters jihad terrorism

Oct 14, 2016 3:02 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Two years ago, then Islamic State spokesman Mohammed Al-Adnani declared jihad against Rome, vowing to “break your crosses, and enslave your women…”

But so far he hasn’t succeeded, at least not in Italy or Rome. Al-Adnani went on to encourage jihadists to attack Westerners “wherever they can be found,” an admonition that was indeed carried out in in “France, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Tunisia, Australia, Canada and the U.S.” But notice that up to now there have been no attacks in Italy — with the physical seat of Catholicism in Rome, from which a Pope once helped to break the back of the Islamic incursion into Europe at the Gates of Vienna on a long-ago 9/11:

September 11th, 1683, the day when an alliance of Christian armies led by Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived at the Gates of Vienna….

Fortunately for the Austrians, and for Christendom, Pope Innocent authorized the papal nuncio in Kraków to use the full resources of the Vatican.

Until that fateful day…

The Ottoman Empire had been expanding into Europe ever since Constantinople fell to the Turks, and even before that. Wherever the Muslim armies went, they plundered cities, took slaves, turned churches into mosques, and converted many thousands of Christian captives to Islam at the point of a sword.

Westerners need to learn a lesson or two from present-day Italy (yet the current pope is another story):

Islamic State propaganda efforts in Italy have lagged behind that in other countries. Islamic State propaganda is easily available online in German, French and English, Vidino said, but there has been little translated into Italian…..Far fewer Italian residents have gone to Iraq or Syria to fight with the Islamic State than those in France, Germany and the U.K.

Italy has a tough immigration policy and deportation laws. For example, Italian authorities, acting on national security grounds, recently deported a Moroccan cleric, Mohammed Madad, who named one of his own daughters “Jihad.” The country has also expelled close to 100 terrorism suspects since the start of 2015.

Italy also rejected plans for the building of a mosque next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and is seen as a country with a “mosque problem”; unregulated mosques in Italy are also closed down as part of the government’s counter-terrorism drive.

Italy has by no means demonstrated any action that is actually anti-Muslim or “Islamophobic,” but it has resisted stealth jihadist propaganda, and seeks first to protect its citizens from jihad incursion and attack.

Peculiar, however, in light of all this, is the alarming behavior of the current pope. He has called the murderous jihadist Abbas “an angel of peace”; was praised by the Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi of Qom, Iran for saying that Islam is peaceful; abandoned Christian refugees; and virtually turned his back on the millions of victims of jihad murder, abuse and terror, including innocent Christians who are persecuted. In fact, Pope Francis “held a private audience with the grand imam of Al-Azhar,” the Sunni imam who clashed with former Pope Benedict over Muslim violence against Christians — but notice how peaceful and loving Pope Francis appears to be.

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“Italy deters terrorism with tough citizenship, deportation”, by Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes, October 14, 2016:

VICENZA, Italy — Two years ago this month, the cover of the Islamic State’s English-language magazine featured an altered photo of the group’s black flag flying atop the Egyptian obelisk that anchors St. Peter’s Square in front of the Vatican.

Inside the issue, then Islamic State spokesman Mohammed Al-Adnani proclaimed the group would one day “conquer Rome…. break your crosses, and enslave your women…” The story went on to encourage jihadi sympathizers to attack Westerners “wherever they can be found.”

Since then, Islamic State fighters or sympathizers have launched scores of attacks that killed hundreds and injured many more — in France, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Tunisia, Australia, Canada and the U.S.

Yet there have been no attacks in Italy.

Italian authorities have credited smart, focused intelligence and police work. But an expert on Italian foreign policy and international terrorism said there are other likely reasons Italy has thus far escaped an islamist terrorist attack: in particular, Italy’s restrictive citizenship laws and its ability and willingness to deport foreign nationals authorities see as threats.

Islamic State-inspired terrorists in Western attacks have been almost exclusively second-generation citizens. “Italy barely has a second generation,” said Lozenzo Vidino, the director of the program on extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber & Homeland Security. “There isn’t really a jihadist scene.”

Islamic State propaganda efforts in Italy have lagged behind that in other countries. Islamic State propaganda is easily available online in German, French and English, Vidino said, but there has been little translated into Italian.

Experts say the Islamic State has chosen its targets partly on how many operatives it has available in a country. Far fewer Italian residents have gone to Iraq or Syria to fight with the Islamic State than those in France, Germany and the U.K., according to an April report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague, Netherlands.

More than 900 French residents were estimated to have traveled to fight in Syria or Iraq, according to the report. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a leader of the Paris attacks in November last year that killed 130 people, and most of those with significant roles in either the Paris or Brussels attacks had fought in Syria. Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan descent who grew up in a neighborhood with an active jihadist scene, boasted he’d brought dozens of fighters back from Syria to launch European attacks.

The ICCT report estimated nearly 800 German residents, 60 percent holding German citizenship, became foreign fighters, and an estimated 500 traveled from Belgium to fight.

Italy’s official estimate is 110, Vidino said.

Only a dozen of them had Italian passports, according to the Italian defense minister.

To be an Italian citizen, “you have to have Italian blood,” Vidino said; your mother or father must be a citizen.

Non-Italians hoping to gain citizenship face a lengthy, expensive and complex process. Children of non-residents born in Italy have to wait until they’re 18 to even apply for citizenship.

Because few non-Italian residents are able to become citizens, those suspected of supporting the Islamic State or recruiting fighters can be — and are — quickly deported….

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  1. Mark A says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Contrast Italy’s deportation of terrorists with this recent story from Canada

    http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/22/trudeaus-canada-citizenship-for-terrorists

    • abad says

      Oct 14, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      That is just sick but Trudeau is a Muslim lover through and through.

      Maybe it is time for the Canadians to rise up against him and impeach him.

  2. JawsV says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 3:42 pm

    I remember standing in front of the Fontana di Trevi back in the ’80’s just like these folks. No fear or thoughts of Moslems and Islam whatsoever. A great time was had by all.

  3. Bender says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    “September 11th, 1683, the day when an alliance of Christian armies led by Jan III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived at the Gates of Vienna….

    Fortunately for the Austrians, and for Christendom, Pope Innocent authorized the papal nuncio in Kraków to use the full resources of the Vatican.”

    The problem with this is that you don’t even consider Eastern Europe to be part of Europe.
    You know, the Ottomans (muslims) attacked and conquered Christian lands hundreds of years before the attack on Vienna. A few major and famous battles were Battle of Maritsa and the Battle of Kosovo. The Western Europe did not help their brothers in the East. It was only after the muslim vermin came to the gates of Vienna that their panties started trembling.
    On top of all, the West have been supporting and still is supporting the muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo. They even BOMBED the Christian Serbs when they fought against muslims.

    You all need to start considering ALL parts of Europe to be Europe and part of Christendom. And obviously support them. Not muslims.

    • Isabel says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 5:58 am

      Considering what is going on, I think you guys better remain no-Europe… You will be safe. I am Spanish and currently live in Spain, so I know what I am saying…

    • Gea says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 1:48 pm

      War in Bosnia had nothing to do with religion! It was Serbian fascists attacking Croats and secular Muslims of Bosnia. Muslims were considered nationality both in Bosnia and Kosovo.

      Do not mix historic facts of the uncivil war in Bosnia started by the Serbian fascists who had been convicted of crimes against humanity (Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic) and jihad that is on going by Muslim invasion from the 56 corrupt, dysfunctional and overpopulated Muslims occupied countries that are sending their surplus population to be fed and housed in Europe.

      Islam is a totalitarian, supremacist, apartheid and imperialistic ideology of hate that does not belong to any society that respect liberty, justice and human rights. Islam should be treated as Nazism and mosques as Nazi cells which created new jihadis every day by having boys memorize the hate speech of Koran, and Hadiths and emulating criminal war lord Mohamed.

  4. Mirren10 says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 3:57 pm

    Far be it from me to defend the pusillanimous Francis, but accuracy is important.

    ”Peculiar, however, in light of all this, is the alarming behavior of the current pope. He has called the murderous jihadist Abbas “an angel of peace”;”

    Actually, no, he didn’t.

    https://pjmedia.com/blog/contrary-to-popular-outrage-pope-francis-didnt-call-mahmoud-abbas-an-angel-of-peace

  5. AvantiBev says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 4:19 pm

    Grazie Dio! My 2nd cousin who has lived in Rome and worked in the Vatican City is applying using my nonno and nonna’s passaporti from the Kingdom of Italia (circa 1911) but it is a lengthy process. Now I am GLAD it is.

  6. abad says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    You know.

    This is exactly what we need to start doing.

    And really – western world prisons are pretty useless when it comes to dealing with Muslims.

    Deportation is a way better solution than jail – much cheaper and Muslims do not consume our resources.

    They can all be shipped back to Syria and be forced to live off the land.

    And the ONE thing the Quran does not teach is this:

    How to live off the land and make use of one’s own natural resources.

    This is precisely why Muslims are so useless in surviving half-decently on their own in their third-world nations.

    No.

    Instead, the Quran tells them to bang their heads against the ground five time a day while facing Mecca – and killing people.

    Time to deport them back to Syria, their Islamic Paradise.

    • Oliver says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 4:04 pm

      If Syria starts becoming too populated, we can send them to Pakistan.

      or, perhaps 25% to each, and another 25% to Iran and the rest to Iraq.

      Just get them the hell out of the US

  7. Kay says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    I wish we would do these sensible things here in the US.

    Letting people become citizens too soon, with no love of our country is dangerous.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Oct 14, 2016 at 6:27 pm

      Yes, I see nothing wrong with changing the relevant laws of various non-Muslim countries in order to make it take longer and be harder to *get* full citizenship.

      Gaining permanent residency, too, should take longer.

      Having a longer and more rigorous process both for residency and citizenship allows more time within which to identify and weed out the people you *don’t* want. Think of it as a probation period; one is *testing* the intention and character of the applicant.

      There is the Italian model; there is the Swiss model; there is Singapore.

      Incidentally, making it take longer and be more difficult to get permanent residency or citizenship need not exclude the provision of temporary residency for humanitarian reasons, so as to be able to offer asylum to persons such as the dreadfully-persecuted Christians from Iraq or Syria, with encouragement to such people to *embark on* the process that will in time lead to citizenship. Such persons, once they understand that the regulations are there primarily to protect the host country from being infiltrated and overwhelmed by Muslims, would be more than happy to comply with requirements. After all, *they* too want to remain safe; that’s why they fled from their muslim-dominated country of origin.

    • Angemon says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 6:00 am

      Yes. This is something I stated on several occasions: US citizenship laws should be reformed. 200 or so years ago it made sense that citizenship was awarded based on the place of your birth. But after a couple of generations they no longer made any sense.

      • abad says

        Oct 15, 2016 at 1:10 pm

        Donald Trump would do that – Hillary Clinton sure wouldn’t.

  8. john spielman says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    Italy should EXPEL the present pope Francis as well

    • Ramm says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 5:05 am

      The Vatican City has its own sovereignity and is not part of Italy, except than geographically.

  9. Taurus Caerulus says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    The mafia should fight against the hoards of muslims, instead of making money with them.

    The “refugees” trying to fuck with the “Cosa Nostra” in sicily.

    What about the holy Madonna!?

    • Ramm says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 5:12 am

      Mafia protect themselves and no one else. They are not really that different form any other kind of criminal gangs. As you said it is known that many criminal organizations are making lot of money with humans and refugees boating across the mediterranean sea, more than with drugs and prostitutions.

  10. Rufolino says

    Oct 15, 2016 at 2:24 am

    Italy “has a tough immigration policy” ? Please, Christine !

    I live in Italy. THOUSANDS of migrants are being helped ashore every week. The Italian Navy is at work on a daily basis like a ferry service, helping crowds to cross the Mediterranean in safety.

    Weeks ago “il Matino” (Naples) said in a headline, “where can we put these people ? There is no more room !”

    But of course Frankie announced that we must receive all migrants “with joy”.

    He says “there is no danger”, and anyone who rejects any migrants “is a hypocrite”. (Well, we knew Frankie was from S.America, had semi-Marxist values, and had no interest in, or understanding of, European culture…)

    Thanks Frankie- we’ll see in a few years how all this madness turns out.

    • Ramm says

      Oct 15, 2016 at 5:26 am

      Agree. I think that this plot make sense only comparing Italy to France and UK where it should be (how much?) worse. France and UK have historycally more muslims, they imported them from their old colonies; which Italy had not. Except for that, Italy seems to have the same priority number one, to import as many muslims they can, as France is doing (and being a little in advance).

  11. Luciano Bonazzi says

    Oct 15, 2016 at 4:34 am

    Actually, the Italian intelligence is efficient and citizens control how they behave Muslims. A jihadist said that you do not make attacks in Italy because they do not cut the branch on which are sitting. Good day

  12. gungfugilman says

    Oct 15, 2016 at 8:21 am

    Italy is awesome!

  13. Oliver says

    Oct 15, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    A little off topic.

    About a year or perhaps somewhat more, ago, two young Italian women (I think around 19 or 20, at the time) (against the wishes and advice of the father of one of them) -” sneaked” into Syria.

    And then, was a JW post, with numerous comments, then nothing.

    Anyone ever see or hear any items about them?

    Just curious.

  14. Holo says

    Oct 16, 2016 at 6:01 am

    Everyone is amazed that there have been no jihadist attacks in Italy. I think it’s because Italy is allowing thousands odf migrants to be “saved” in the sea every day and to come to Italy, which is utter madness. The terrorists are keeping quiet while this mass Muslim invasion of Italy continues, and the day it stops, they will launch attacks, most of all in Rome as many of them have said they want to destroy the city and its Christian heritage.
    As for the Pope, it’s a scandal that he prefers Muslims to Christians, and is ignoring the genocide against Christians. Christianity is being systematically eradicated from a
    Africa to East Asia, and the Pope, the Christian Churches, the EU, the UN couldn’t care less. Fortunately there are some organizations that help the persecuted Christians.
    I have a feeling that Pope Francis will be assassinated by someone at the Vatican.

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