A fight broke among immigrants in a reception centre in Caltanissetta, Sicily.
The row started for futile reasons and ended with nine immigrants of various nationalities being injured and taken to hospital. They could be separated only by the intervention of the police.
Blog of London-based Italian journalist Enza Ferreri on politics, society, religion, environment
Monday, 3 September 2012
Record Numbers of Immigrant Children in Italian Schools
As schools open in Italy, the number of pupils born to immigrant parents is higher than ever.
The record goes to a school in Milan's multi ethnic San Siro suburb, where 17 out of 19 pupils are children of immigrants and don't have Italian citizenship.
In other parts of Northern Italy the percentages are also high. In Emilia Romagna, the region with Bologna, non-Italian pupils form about 16 percent of the total, in Liguria, the region of Genoa, 12 percent, and in Friuli Venezia Giulia 10 percent.
The record goes to a school in Milan's multi ethnic San Siro suburb, where 17 out of 19 pupils are children of immigrants and don't have Italian citizenship.
In other parts of Northern Italy the percentages are also high. In Emilia Romagna, the region with Bologna, non-Italian pupils form about 16 percent of the total, in Liguria, the region of Genoa, 12 percent, and in Friuli Venezia Giulia 10 percent.
Sunday, 2 September 2012
A Highly Accurate Prediction about Islam
Westerners "have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past. ...It has always see seemed to me possible, and even probable, that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent."
These words were written by Hilaire Belloc in The Great Heresies in 1938.
It's remarkable how they can predict current events, even to the point of "our sons or our grandsons" which indeed we are.
The capability of making accurate predictions is considered as a sign, as in science, of having a correct hypothesis to explain the phenomena or the events, which obviously Belloc had.
Today we also have people with a deep knowledge and correct understanding of Islam who are making the right predictions derived from their true theories about Islam. What these authors say, for instance, is that the so-called "Arab Spring " will be playing in the hands of the Islamists, which they said from its inception and they are already being proven right, while the mainstream media and prevailing politically-correct opinion sees it as a triumph for democracy, which we can already see that it's not.
So, who makes the most accurate predictions and therefore best understands Islam?
These words were written by Hilaire Belloc in The Great Heresies in 1938.
It's remarkable how they can predict current events, even to the point of "our sons or our grandsons" which indeed we are.
The capability of making accurate predictions is considered as a sign, as in science, of having a correct hypothesis to explain the phenomena or the events, which obviously Belloc had.
Today we also have people with a deep knowledge and correct understanding of Islam who are making the right predictions derived from their true theories about Islam. What these authors say, for instance, is that the so-called "Arab Spring " will be playing in the hands of the Islamists, which they said from its inception and they are already being proven right, while the mainstream media and prevailing politically-correct opinion sees it as a triumph for democracy, which we can already see that it's not.
So, who makes the most accurate predictions and therefore best understands Islam?
Saturday, 1 September 2012
The West and Russia
I have found a way to write and send a post with my mobile phone. It's the first time so bear with me.
The West has a strange, almost schizophrenic attitude towards Russia.
Russia is a country which has spontaneously rejected communism and set to a path to democracy.
It's not perfect but the West should support it. Instead it seems to prefer to attack it at the first opportunity.
On the other hand, Western countries are mesmerized by the "Arab Spring" and believe that it is driven by pro-democracy fighters, whereas in reality the countries involved, be they Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia, Syria or Yemen, are going further away from democracy into the hands of radical Islamists.
The West also has as allies countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia , fully Sharia-compliant, and Turkey, another nation that is increasingly becoming Islamist.
It's true that the most unlikely and unholy alliances can be made for tactical reasons, but the West here is guilty of really bad double standards.
Romney, at the Republican National Convention, where he delivered an overall good speech , said that Russia and Putin should be shown some muscle.
I think that the West is doing exactly the opposite of what it should do.
Between the principles on which the West is based and the principles of Islam there is a logical contradiction. Logical contradictions cannot be solved any more than a circle can be squared. So there is no point in our attempts to find a dialogue with Islamic countries and in our being overoptimistic and excessively enthusiastic about developments there.
But, unlike logical contradictions, conflicts of interest can be solved with negotiation and compromise.
I think that there is a lot of prejudice and stereotyping about Russia in the West, where it's seen as the old enemy, the Soviet Union which is not any more.
The Pussy Riot case was immediately viewed as an attack on free speech by an oppressive regime, whereas it was nothing of the sort.
Russia and the West have a lot in common. Russia is a Christian nation, and it faces more Muslim threats than we do in the West. There are Islamic terrorists in the North Caucasus and in other parts of the country.
The West has a strange, almost schizophrenic attitude towards Russia.
Russia is a country which has spontaneously rejected communism and set to a path to democracy.
It's not perfect but the West should support it. Instead it seems to prefer to attack it at the first opportunity.
On the other hand, Western countries are mesmerized by the "Arab Spring" and believe that it is driven by pro-democracy fighters, whereas in reality the countries involved, be they Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia, Syria or Yemen, are going further away from democracy into the hands of radical Islamists.
The West also has as allies countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia , fully Sharia-compliant, and Turkey, another nation that is increasingly becoming Islamist.
It's true that the most unlikely and unholy alliances can be made for tactical reasons, but the West here is guilty of really bad double standards.
Romney, at the Republican National Convention, where he delivered an overall good speech , said that Russia and Putin should be shown some muscle.
I think that the West is doing exactly the opposite of what it should do.
Between the principles on which the West is based and the principles of Islam there is a logical contradiction. Logical contradictions cannot be solved any more than a circle can be squared. So there is no point in our attempts to find a dialogue with Islamic countries and in our being overoptimistic and excessively enthusiastic about developments there.
But, unlike logical contradictions, conflicts of interest can be solved with negotiation and compromise.
I think that there is a lot of prejudice and stereotyping about Russia in the West, where it's seen as the old enemy, the Soviet Union which is not any more.
The Pussy Riot case was immediately viewed as an attack on free speech by an oppressive regime, whereas it was nothing of the sort.
Russia and the West have a lot in common. Russia is a Christian nation, and it faces more Muslim threats than we do in the West. There are Islamic terrorists in the North Caucasus and in other parts of the country.
Friday, 31 August 2012
Vacation
I am going on vacation on 31st August and will be back on 17th September, when I'll restart posting here regularly.
Al Gore Complains about Media Not Addressing Global warming
If Al Gore is mad about media, public figures and people not talking about global warming anymore, it is a very good sign.
In fact, I've noticed that in the last year or so there has been little mention of climate change: even in the face of extreme weather events which only a few years ago would have been attributed to climate change.
The reason is that even the mainstream media had to realize that many of these attributions had proved totally wrong, so now they are obviously more cautious.
Generally speaking, the global warming theory, having been discredited in so many different ways - chiefly because of computer models based on it predicting higher temperatures, when temperatures globally have been decreasing for several years, but also due to the odd and unreliable behaviour of so many Western universities' and UN's "climate scientists" - is gradually, maybe tacitly, being put aside.
In fact, I've noticed that in the last year or so there has been little mention of climate change: even in the face of extreme weather events which only a few years ago would have been attributed to climate change.
The reason is that even the mainstream media had to realize that many of these attributions had proved totally wrong, so now they are obviously more cautious.
Generally speaking, the global warming theory, having been discredited in so many different ways - chiefly because of computer models based on it predicting higher temperatures, when temperatures globally have been decreasing for several years, but also due to the odd and unreliable behaviour of so many Western universities' and UN's "climate scientists" - is gradually, maybe tacitly, being put aside.
Thursday, 30 August 2012
2012 Republican National Convention Second Day
Last night I watched on BBC Parliament the coverage of the US Republican Party's National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
For the first time I saw Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, give a speech. I had heard that he was good (someone even said he was better than Mitt Romney), and indeed he was good.
I also liked many other speakers I saw, especially Fox News' Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, who tore Obama to pieces; Steven Cohen, a small-business owner who spoke on behalf of small businesses oppressed by this administration's taxes and regulations - and the fact that he got government contracts for his company (who he said are only a “minute, fractional” portion of his business) is irrelevant to his arguments; and Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who rightly confronted the left's tendency to denigrate Romney for being a wealthy man, when in fact that shows the entrepreneurial, courage, and leadership qualities of this self-made man who, unlike Obama, has created lots of jobs.
"And yes, he made money," Portman said. "He made it the old fashioned way. He earned it.
"Then you have Barack Obama, who has never started a business – never even worked in business."
Which one, he asked, "knows how to turn this economy around?"
Portman said Obama lacks leadership, blamed him for the Senate's failure to pass a budget, and for the millions of US citizens out of work "or the millions more who have given up looking."
I hope the Romney-Ryan ticket wins, opinion polls or not. I can't imagine how any American might want to re-elect Obama, unless s/he is a sado-masochist bent on the destruction of self and others.
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