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Letters to the Corriere of 3/09/2005 and 23/10/2005

Back in Europe: 20 or 30 years ago the European citizen did not know of the existence of Islam other than vaguely.  For the past thirty years, Islam has been established in Europe with good or bad manners, helped in this by some of our political forces for reasons that I do not know and that I would like to know. I would like to understand their motivations.

Voices coming from our country have warned about the clash of cultures that could arise from the arrival of millions of people with customs and traditions clearly in conflict with European legislation, not least Cardinal Martini in 1990, Us and Islam. We even protected people sought after in their own countries for undermining the stability of their states.

Dear Director, you are certainly aware that the majority of Muslims in Italy are of Middle Eastern origin, that is, Arab culture; they have found in our Democracy, a guarantee and a freedom that they did not have in their own countries. One wonders: do they want to live in the West importing customs, traditions and worship as practiced in Arab countries? Obviously a distinction must be made between official Islam, Muslims and fundamentalism.

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16/10 – 2016

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In the globalised world, national schools have emerged outside national borders, mainly as a result of multinational companies for the children of their employees moving abroad for a temporary period. This is the reason why there are American or Italian schools in the main cities of the world, but not yet Egyptian schools, due to the lack of diffusion of Egyptian companies outside the national borders, at least not in Milan where there is, instead, a Libyan school for employees of Libyan companies present in the country.

I understand that all the students at the proposed school are from Egypt. I would like, however, to remind the “leaders” and our politicians that you cannot use indifferently the term Arabic and secular school, Arab tout-court, Egyptian or Islamic, thus demonstrating ignorance of the underlying cultural diversity.

I participate with the feelings of solidarity expressed by various parties, despite this, I explain the reasons for a NO to this school in Milan:

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