{"id":6239,"date":"2009-11-08T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2009-11-08T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T23:47:10","slug":"crucifix-ban-in-italy-a-victory-for-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/crucifix-ban-in-italy-a-victory-for-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucifix ban in Italy a victory for Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Soile Lautsi <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/03\/crucifixes-banned-in-italian-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">appealed to European Court of Human Rights<\/a>, Muslims in Italy had been working hard to have the \u201csmall body on two wooden sticks\u201d removed from classrooms. A <a href=\"http:\/\/newsrealblog.com\/2009\/11\/08\/muslims-score-a-major-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\">victory for Muslims<\/a> and Soile Lautsi and a sad defeat for Western Civilisation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2003, the <strong>Union of the Muslims of Italy<\/strong> (UOMII), led by a radical convert to Islam named Adel Smith, brought a court action to have the crucifix removed from all public schools in that predominantly Catholic country. Calling the crucifix a \u201csmall body on two wooden sticks,\u201d and \u201ca miniature cadaver,\u201d Smith and UOMII lobbied hard for their removal. Also on their agenda was the removal of an \u201coffensive\u201d 15th century Giovanni di Modena fresco in the Bologna cathedral and the deletion of Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy from the school syllabus. Smith said both showed the prophet Mohammed cast into hell and were blasphemous against Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The local Italian Court ruled in favor of the Smith and the Muslims. The schools appealed.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was taken up by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France (along with a similar action by a different plaintiff), and in a stunning decision, which has gone almost entirely unreported by most major news outlets and cable programs (with the exception of a small, peripheral mention on Fox News) in this country, that Court also ruled last week that displaying crucifixes in the Italian schools violated Europe\u2019s principle of \u201csecular education,\u201d and \u201c<em>might be intimidating for children from other faiths<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Soile Lautsi appealed to European Court of Human Rights, Muslims in Italy had been working hard to have the \u201csmall body on two wooden sticks\u201d removed from classrooms. A victory for Muslims and Soile Lautsi and a sad defeat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/crucifix-ban-in-italy-a-victory-for-muslims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,189],"tags":[2080,2178],"class_list":["post-6239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-islam","tag-christianity","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}