The head of the Conservatives and
Reformists caucus in the Senate, Anna Cinzia Bonfrisco, said
Wednesday that the country could defeat extremism through
"defending Muslim women from oppression and the violence of
symbols like the burqa".
If Italy were to do so, she claimed, Muslim women "will be
the ones to annihilate the radicalism that sows terror".
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano had told Italian daily
Corriere della Sera in an interview published Wednesday that the
country would not be following in the footsteps of French cities
that have banned the burkini, a full-body Islamic swimming
garment, in order to avoid attracting attacks from Islamic
extremists.
"Alfano is making a mistake," Bonfrisco said. "Absurd
integration policies even at the cost of renouncing our Western
culture is the reason why Europe has become a sieve."
"France has discovered at its own expense the mistake of
the dominant idea in the European left, according to which
reception comes before our culture, even of a religious nature."
"Those who do not see what female immigrants are forced
into - even in our cities - make the tragic mistake of not
understanding that if we use firm laws to free female immigrants
from female genital mutilation and segregation, they will be the
main driver behind the isolation of Islamic radicalism, which
they are the main victims of."
"Women's rights, so dear to the left, have become
subservient to Islam. Woe to us if we follow that model. Even
France has understood this," she said.
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