Bangladeshi residents and others in Monfalcone say decisions to prohibit worship at cultural centres and banning burkinis at the beach is part of anti-Islam agenda
The envelope containing two partially burned pages of the Qur’an came as a shock. Until then, Muslim residents in the Adriatic port town of Monfalcone had lived relatively peacefully for more than 20 years.
Addressed to the Darus Salaam Muslim cultural association on Via Duca d’Aosta, the envelope was received soon after Monfalcone’s far-right mayor, Anna Maria Cisint, banned prayers on the premises.
“It was hurtful, a serious insult we never expected,” said Bou Konate, the association’s president. “But it was not a coincidence. The letter was a threat, generated by a campaign of hate that has stoked toxicity.”
Monfalcone’s population recently passed 30,000. Such a positive demographic trend would ordinarily spell good news in a country grappling with a rapidly declining birthrate, but in Monfalcone, where Cisint has been nurturing an anti-Islam agenda since winning her first mandate in 2016, the rise has not been welcomed.
Wow. Way to project.
Thankfuly almost nobody goes to church here. Only 1% of country’s population visited church on christmas.
A distant relative of my wife passed and it was a religious service. Because of that I the militant open atheist have attended services more times the past year than the average American theist.
Got to love progress:)
I was already an adult before portable gaming was a thing, and frankly I enjoyed and still enjoy going to church.
But I have seen literally hundreds of musguided young anti-theists just like you and the butthurt pattern is pretty recognizable.