Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso said
Thursday equating Islam with terror is "dangerous" and is
fueling a rise in hate crime. "We must reject with the utmost
firmness the... linking of migration with terrorism, diversity
with radicalism," he told an Organization for Security and
Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conference. "(We must reject)
suspicion and resentment against Islam, foreigners and refugees,
which citizens at a loss understandably feel and which some
political forces are irresponsibly fueling. It is not by chance
that hate crimes, intolerance and violence motivated by
religious, ethnic and cultural hatred are on the rise in
Europe". He added that "as we know, the genesis of the Paris
attacks was largely internal to Europe - therefore it is a
mystification to reduce the security issue and the fight against
terror to a matter of controlling the flow of refugees and
migrants. Of course border control will be essential, but in
concert with intelligence and security interventions, with
diplomatic action and while guaranteeing the rights of all:
citizens, migrants, and refugees".
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