See Michael, even I do not think we can dismiss the phenomenon League with adjectives "quantitative". The problem is not that they are "excessive" or "exaggerate", and even that is counterproductive. The problem is that they are deeply and irreparably wrong. The problem is Borghezio which is a common criminal who is condoning racial hatred whenever he can. The problem is that liberalism is defended not just denying it. The problem is that the League to defend the freedoms and rights of the liberal tradition does not give anything. Indeed.
And I say this with a bit 'of pain. Why I am proud of Emilia, I have always defended my local identity against the alleged homogeneity of the people within national borders: a nightmare that we left as a legacy of belligerent diplomacy of the nineteenth century and two world wars shameful. Because I have voted in Edinburgh in 1997 for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament (the real democracies do not are afraid to vote for immigrants). Why I as a Director of the Italian school of Barcelona from 1997 to 2000 I think I did more than anyone before me to give the role of Catalan to English in the life of our school. Because I respect national borders, even on the borders generally do not believe mica, but I think the right of people to discover and develop their identity by looking roots, ideas and nuances. I think that I would be the natural supporter of the local parties and democracy close and direct.
And I say this because I am worth, which also requires me to not generalize, I have discussed, written and raised his voice to describe the madness of Muslim people in the streets waving the racial and religious hatred. Because I felt when the Danes Danish refused to prove scared and apologize for the cartoons (nice) about Muhammad. Why does my blog have appeared for years that Muslim thugs picture shows bloody hands or wielding a machine gun to celebrate the death of someone in Israel. Because I do not think mica that truth is simple and I think that in judging the conflict between cultures and peoples should make an effort to understand the reasons of all: even the reasons that led us at times the use of force. That there were and still are. And it will send troops to Afganisthan and I do not complain (I hope that is not a failure, but are unable to judge "technically" the utility of the request for Obama).
But it's not my fault if Italy is quickly turning into something where I feel more foreign. I do not see why I should oppose a theocracy with another theocracy. Perhaps the shadow of the cross were not committed crimes in the shadow of the crescent? In Reggio, in Emilia, there are still the cornerstones of the gate which closed the evening in the narrow streets of the Jewish ghetto until the arrival of the Enlightenment helped by some of Mr. Napoleon cannon (a good personal example of the complex European identities).
not my fault if the public has become accustomed to the utterances of criminal Northern League politicians, a little 'as in the seventies we had grown used to violence, and has lost the ability to be scandalized. Yet it is not a small thing.
This noise is driving us deaf and insensitive. Slowly racism seem trivial and obvious, something that perhaps is not shared but who has the right to exist ... so still exists, what can we do?
Yet it is not. Italy my ... are not so. Were not.
