Italian Islamic Confederation born. 250 mosques united

Rome's great mosque's project, with a Charter of values

22 March, 16:42

The Great Mosque of Rome

  (ANSAmed) - ROME - A step forward has been taken to unify the Italian Islamic community. It's also a move towards picking up once again the dialogue with the State and work towards signing an agreement document. After a long planning period, the first Italian Islamic Confederation is born, unifying 250 mosques all over the nation and who have chosen to share common values.

Italy's Mosque Wars

by Soeren Kern
February 3, 2012 at 5:00 am

The southern Italian island of Sicily is about to become the proud new owner of a multi-million euro mega-mosque.
The mosque, to be built in the medieval town of Salemi in southwestern Sicily, is being paid for by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Emirate of Qatar. Supporters of the mosque hope it will become a reference point for Muslims in Sicily as well as the rest of Italy.

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Riots in Rome, scuffles in UK mar mass protests

G20 urges European leaders to deal decisively with debt turmoil

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  • Image Credit: Reuters
  • A car burns during a demonstration by the ‘Indignants’ against banking and finance in Rome yesterday. Protesters worldwide railed against bankers, financiers and politicians they accuse of ruining global economies and condemning millions to poverty and hardship through greed.

  Dubai: Protests raged in cities from Sydney to Chicago on Saturday as global finance chiefs met in Paris to discuss a way out of Europe's sovereign debt turmoil.

  Thousands took to the streets in New Zealand and Australia, followed by Manila and Hong Kong, as demonstrations spread to Europe — where violence broke out on the streets of Rome, and protesters in London scuffled with police — and finally the US, the home of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  Protesters hit out at corporate greed and cutbacks by governments, with many expressing anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite.

  Meanwhile, following the second day of talks in Paris, global finance chiefs gathered at a meeting of the G20 last night urging Europe's leaders to "decisively" deal with the region's sovereign debt turmoil, setting an October 23 summit as the deadline for a plan. Read the rest on: 

  

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Wall Street protests go global; riots hit Rome

By Philip Pullella

ROME | Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:47pm EDT

(Reuters) - Anti-greed protesters rallied globally on Saturday, denouncing bankers and politicians over the international economic crisis, with violence rocking Rome where cars were torched and bank windows smashed.

Kissing an gold idol on the ring of the Pope

They kiss the «Ring of the Fisherman». It has an image of the Apostle Peter, and the Pope claims to be his successor.

Elie Wiesel: Jerusalem is Above Politics

: Here’s the text of full-page ads that Elie Wiesel took out last year in the The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times:

It was inevitable: Jerusalem once again is at the center of political debates and international storms. New and old tensions surface at a disturbing pace. Seventeen times destroyed and seventeen times rebuilt, it is still in the middle of diplomatic confrontations that could lead to armed conflict. Neither Athens nor Rome has aroused that many passions.

CHOC! Le monde et les Prières musulmanes, shock! Muslim prayers around the World....

So please do not:

Because I have the feeling you do that! The ‘hunters’ are there! They come after you, and want to kill you! You don’t ‘see’ that?