Tel-Chai Nation

Alas, yes, there most certainly is dhimmitude and creeping shari'a there as well. Gallia Watch translates an article from Occidentalis that discusses how in the Italian resort town of Riccione, they're considering creating seperate areas of the beach for Muslim women and giving hotels authorization to partitioning off areas for Muslims only, since they've got quite a lot of tourists from Muslim countries coming in lately. Loretta Villa, councilwoman, said:

"Our beaches are large enough to fulfill this need...We live from tourism, and we could not survive if we didn't satisfy the demands of our clients, especially those new to our resort...If we wanted to, we could create a section of the beach reserved for nudists, it would be the same thing..."

And soon, they won't be big enough to satisfy "this need". And if you go as far as pleasing those who don't have a right to impose their will upon your own community, it's possible that you might end up losing more business than you'll gain.

Oh, and prime minister Romano Prodi, predictably has been starting to cause damage by doing what Berlusconi tried to keep to a minimum earlier:

Two weeks after the legalization of 350,000 clandestine workers, the Prodi government, on August 4, adopted an important reform in the naturalization code. The bill, presented by Interior Minister Giuliano Amato, opens the way to massive naturalizations by reducing from ten years to five the number of years of residency required to obtain Italian nationality. It also provides that children born in Italy of foreign parents can become citizens at age 18, provided one of the parents had already lived in Italy for 5 years at the time of the birth.

Between now and 2008, up to 1.5 million foreigners present in the Peninsula could theoretically obtain Italian citizenship, according to Caritas, a Catholic organization working on behalf of immigrant communities. The figures were revised downward by Giuliano Amato, who attempted to minimize the impact of the new law:

"You must be careful with these figures. Today, with a ten-year residency requirement, we have 10,000 applications a year. With the new law we project about 18,000...(and only a part of) the 50,000 foreign children born each year will become Italian citizens..."

Long known as a country of emigration, Italy has seen this trend reversed in recent years as the number of immigrants rose from 1.3 million in 2000, then 2.7 million in 2004, reaching 3 million this year according to Caritas. At the same time, demographers warn that the country's fertility rate stagnates among the lowest in Europe at 1.3 children per woman, and its aging population - about 60 million people - is in danger of diminishing in the decades to come...

The government of Romano Prodi, in place since May, had, within two weeks, already brought about a major shift in the tough immigration policy instituted under Berlusconi, by increasing entry quotas to 517,000 foreign workers in 2006 from the 170,000 allowed by Silvio Berlusconi's government...

The bill adopted on Friday will have to be voted on by deputies and senators in the fall. Some right-wing groups have promised open war on Parliament.

"We will shoot down this law that places the country and our future in the hands of the most recent arrivals," declared Roberto Calderoli, senator of the Northern League.

I wish you good luck there, Calderoli and company. If Prodi is trying to destroy Italy, then you'd best get started. I can certainly understand why plenty French websites are upset at the news too. Because they too care about the safety of Italy, and with good reason.

The good news, from what I know, is that in Italy, the birthrate has picked up in recent years. But even then, they cannot afford to allow potentially dangerous immigration laws that Muslims could exploit to come into effect, so the battle to stop Prodi from damaging the country had best begin now.

(Flag design by France-Echos).

Labels: dhimmitude, Europe, Italy