A school near Milan has
scrapped its planned Christmas concert and removed a crucifix in
order to stage a more 'secular' event, Milan daily Il Giorno
reported Friday.
Anti-immigrant Northern League leader Matteo Salvini vainly
tried to phone the head of the school at Rozzano on a radio
show, saying "cancelling traditions is a favour for terrorists".
"Just think how ISIS is taking us for fools as they listen
to us," he said, using a vulgar word for fool.
Rozzano Mayor Barbara Agogliati said she would ask the
school head to reinstate the traditional concert.
Politicians from Silvio Berlusconi's centre right Forza
Italia party and others from the small centrist Catholic-inpired
UDC party urged Education Minister Stefania Giannini to step in
and change the principal's mind.
A school near Bergamo recently made a similar move.
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