2 - Reflections, Islam and prescriptions

R041 - Women under Threat

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Corsera – 29/1/2007

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Veil: “Put it on or I’ll kill you!”

I would like to comment on a news item that repeats that it causes human drama for the families involved. “Put on your veil or I’ll kill you”.

How often do these threats occur within the walls of the house? Those raised by the newspapers are only the tip of the iceberg and involve immigrants who are mostly Arab Muslims. Moreover, some centres of aggregation of immigrants incite in the name of religion to introduce in Italy medieval customs and traditions still existing in the most remote corners of the country of origin.

In certain areas of the Arab world, women live in a state of inferiority without any chance of rebellion because of the social and religious pressure. In Italy, in contact with such a different reality, the family remains disoriented and the man tends to forcefully assert his dominion over the woman and the daughter, while giving the sons freedom. In the rare cases advertised, the woman, victim of abuse, is doubly penalized: by the harassment received and even more by the removal from his family while she is placed in a safe place. This leads to trauma and acts as a deterrent against the use of our justice; the violent man should have been removed and subjected to the rigors of Italian law. The victim is doubly penalized physically and psychologically

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R042 - Beating up women

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CORSERA- 29/1/2007

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Is it right to beat up women?

It’s good for Magdi to denounce the abuses made in the cultural centers linked to Ucoi.

They launch messages to introduce in Italy medieval customs and traditions still existing in the name of religion in the most remote corners.

But the women threatened by terror remain in their fate. Dear Magdi: I may suggest publicizing the follow-up to the complaints made and the penalties that our institutions will have applied to these offenders. We will succeed in making the violent aware of the consequences they face and we will give courage to Muslim women to ensure that their rights and their human dignity so that the Kuran will not take over.

Giuseppe Samir Eid

 

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The published articles intend to provide the tools for a social inclusion of the migratory flow, shed light on human rights and the condition of life of Christians in the Islamic world from which the author come from. Knowledge of the other, of cultural and religious differences are primary ingredients to create peace in the hearts of men everywhere, a prerequisite for a peaceful coexistence and convinced citizenship in the territory.

2 - Reflections, Islamic cult centers and Mosques, Islam and prescriptions

R043 - Two ways of reading the Koran

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Corriere forum – 16/10/2006

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The Koran

There are two ways to read the Koran:

– Reading and applying the text to the letter without correlating it to the whole script: “cut off the hand of the thief” without considering the Koran’s insistence on Forgiveness!

– The second way is taking the Koran in its entirety! The believer does not seek the truth in the single sentence but in the general context, they do not remain disturbed by individual contradictions.

Despite the existence of verses that contradict the modernist M., they assert that the Koran should be read as a whole Chapter and that the truth is to be found in the evolution of the text and not in the reading of a verse taken in isolation.

The sacred texts are not closed in, but are a source of meditation and reflection:

“If all the plants that exist on earth became a series of pens, and if all the water of the sea, and of other seven seas, became ink, they would not be enough to write the verb of the God, who is powerful and wise” (Koran 31:27).

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R044 - Mosque of Lodi

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4th October 2000

To: Dr. Pagliarini

FROM: G. Eid

OBJECT: Mosque of Lodi

Dear Mimmo,

I don’t know all the details of the issue learned from the newspapers; on the basis of what has been read and knowing the environment of the other party I offer you my brief considerations, to give you a contribution to the understanding of the Italian Islamic reality.

Free land from a public body:

  1. On what basis is the mosque free?
  2. It will create a precedent.
  3. It creates discrimination against other faiths, non-Muslims.
  4. Italian citizens do not receive anything free from the state
  5. They can erect their place of worship like any other Italian institution with respect to the Regulatory Plan. There is no need for extraordinary rules. In Italy there is this freedom of worship that does not exist for non-Muslims, in countries where Islamic law is in force.
  6. They are not poor: the UCOI union receives billions of funds from Arab states, primarily Saudi Arabia, to support its aims. That’s what their newspapers say.
  7. To talk about reciprocity does not apply in this case because they are Italian citizens: there is no Islamic counterpart.
  8. Islam: there is no univocal Islam but there are various ways of applying Islamic law: the way in which it is implemented in Sudan is not the same as its implementation in Tunis, but the construction of churches in Egypt, for example, is still regulated by an edict of the caliph Omar of the year 636.

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