Representatives from Italy’s Muslim and Jewish youth organizations plan to meet in Milan, as part of an inter-faith dialogue initiative. Daniele Nahim, president of the Young Jews of Italy will sit next to Abdallah Kabakebbji, a representative from the group Young Muslims of Italy. The meeting will take place at an exhibition called The Fairness…
More than 3,000 Muslims gathered last week in Milan’s Palaldo stadium to send a message of love and fraternity. The gatherers prayed and sang for peace, and offered opportunities to donate for the needy. Verses of the Quran citing respect for human values, piety, and care for the disadvantaged were read, as many reaffirmed that…
A mosque in the small city of Abbiategrasso, near Milan, has been the target of a recent assault – the eighth in the region of Lombardy. A man was seen throwing a Molotov cocktail into the courtyard of the mosque. No major damage or injuries are reported from the attack.
Mohamed Daki was convicted of international terrorism in a Milan appeals court Tuesday, though he had been expelled from Italy two years earlier. Daki’s case resulted in a firestorm in 2005 when a Milan court acquitted him and two Tunisians of terrorism charges, citing their actions were those of guerillas, not terrorists. However, a new…
By Luigi Ferrarella Milan – “The mere insertion” of the name of a person “on the so-called blacklists” of suspected financiers of international Islamic terrorism, compiled by the UN and the Council of the European Union, along the lines of what the United States has done after the Twin Towers massacre of 11 September 2001,…
