The Italian High Casssation Court on
Monday ruled against a Sikh Indian migrant who wanted to carry
in public a knife that his religion considers sacred, even
though it is against Italian law.
The Court said migrants who choose to live in the Western
world have an obligation to conform to the values of the society
they've chosen to settle in, even if its values differ from
their own.
"An attachment to one's own values, even if they are lawful
in the country of origin, is intolerable when it causes
violating the laws of the host country," the Court said.
"The multiethnic society is a necessity, but it can't lead to
the formation of conflicting cultural groups of islands
according to the ethnicities they're made up of, precluding the
unity of the cultural and judicial fabric of our country, which
identifies public safety as an asset to defend and as such bans
carrying weapons and objects aimed at injury," the Court said.
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