(ANSAmed) - ROME, DECEMBER 13 - The head of the Co-MAI
organization, which represents Arab communities in Italy, spoke
out Friday against the incendiary words being used in Italian
street protests recently.
''We must reject raving, dangerous and instrumental words
used against religions and the Jewish faith,'' said Co-MAI
chairman and founder of the movement Uniti per Unire, the Muslim
Palestinian Foad Aodi. He referred in particular to the
statements made by the spokesman for the Forconi ('Pitchfork')
movement, Andrea Zunino, who had said Italy was ''enslaved by
wealthy Jewish bankers''.
The Co-MAI chief said that the protests underway in Italy
had ''many things in common with the so-called Arab Springs,
which begin at a lower level and in a democratic manner but then
are taken over and used for their own purposes by politicians,
religious figures and infiltrators.''
Aodi stressed that even in Italy ''the real reasons for the
protest - from unemployment to poverty - may end up taking a
back seat, as happened in Arab countries.'' (ANSAmed).
