issuevoter
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What ever the political perspective: left, right, or inside-out, I read a lot of wishful-thinking on this forum. People love to crow about their views coming to ascendency. In the west, most things stumble along in middle of the road mediocrity. (How's that for alliterative alliances?)
The Italian initiative, as positive as it is, will likely run into all kinds of opposition from the EU, the UN, and Amnesty International to mention a few. We have to remember that the upper echelon of Western adminstrations are peopled with the enemies of freedom. It is not that its a big conspiracy of villains; in some cases, they mean well. In other cases they don't want to upset the apple cart, even if it means a massacre or two.
For this initiative to be productive, it needs to be part of a raft of policies to restrict the spread of Islam, and publicise the reality of its intention towards other cultures. That will not happen while leaders left an right blow a smoke screen between their voters and the undermining of pluralism. Good luck to the Italian people, they'll need it.
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