Silvio Berlusconi’s Superior Civilisation Watch: Barack Obama has an all year tan according to Silvio Berlusconi.
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Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: The Ministry of Justice in Italy is considering an appeal for the prosecution of an Italian comic for ‘insulting the Pope’.
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More news from Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: Two senior, right-wing, politicians have ‘expressed sympathy for Mussolini’s rule’.
(Although to be fair to Italians, this is also happening in Italy: “Senior cleric berates attitudes to immigrants and poor”.)
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This is Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: A Northern League politician is to attend an “anti-Islam congress”. The Northern League is part of the current right-wing government in Italy. The Searchlight report adds that the politician in question, Mario Borghezio, once shouted at a public meeting: “no to immigrant shits, no to Muslims who are f***ing up our schools” and that the attendence of the politician is “probably intended as a slap in the face to the European Commission for Human Rights, which in a recent memorandum (CommDH 2008-18) accused the Italian government of virtual collusion in the xenophobic and racist trend that has taken a turn for the worse with the continuing attacks against immigrants and Roma people”.
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Muammar Gaddafi’s revival is complete.
Next up for an overhaul: Bashar al-Assad.
In this context, read the debate at National Interest between ‘neoconservatives’ and ‘realists’.
Related: Even renewable sources will probably need ‘energy security’.
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More news from Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: A Muslim woman was ejected from a museum in Venice “because she was wearing a head veil”.
(And AC Milan also lost an opening day fixture at home to Bologna.)
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This is Silvio Berlusconi’s superior civilisation: The xenophobic Northern League has proposed new legislation which would in effect halt construction of new Islamic mosques.
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Politicians from the anti immigrant Northern League (part of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right government) want to ban Muslims from a proposed multifaith prayer centre based in a palace founded by Crusaders.
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Silvio Berlusconi shows what he means by ’superior civilisation’.
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A controversial mosque in the Italian city of Milan is to be shut down, the country’s right-wing government says.
