Berlusconi has been lashing out at his opponents following his candidate’s poor showing in the first round of local elections in Milan.
Milan cannot turn into an Islamic city, a ‘gypsyopolis’ full of Roma camps besieged by foreigners to whom the left wants to give the right to vote,” Mr Berlusconi said on his People of Freedom party website …
“We have to vote because we don’t want to turn Milan over to an authoritarian left … We have to vote to defend our interests, our rights and our liberty,” he said.
Some freedoms are clearly more important than others though as far as Berlusconi’s preferred candidate, the outgoing Mayor Letizia Moratti, is concerned.
Moratti a former national education minister from the PDL, says she opposes the construction of a mosque in Milan as requested by the city’s mostly migrant Muslim community.
A mosque in Italy’s financial capital would ‘create a centre of attraction for Islamic groups from all over Italy who then would not be controllable,’ Moratti said.
Both Milan’s archbishop, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, and representatives of the city’s Jewish community support the proposed Mosque.
