“In San Siro a center for second generation young people. FdI: “It will be a mosque”. Republic This is how the San Siro mosque case tells it, of which the Newspaper started working on Monday.
For the left-wing newspaper, it would be a “center for second generation youth” – therefore a commendable thing – that is rising in the Milanese neighborhood. And it wouldn’t be a prayer center (which would be an equally good thing, if it weren’t completely abusive). Second Republic they are the advisors of the Brothers of Italy (and maybe the newspaper) to have stated that “the one being worked on between via Capecelatro and via Gianicolo, in the heart of the old popular neighborhood of San Siro, is a “mosque” built in contempt of all current urban planning regulations (…)”, while “those responsible for the La Misericordia Foundation strongly deny that it is a mosque”.
What’s the problem? The problem is that they are (were) the same center managers to say that it will be a mosque, indeed they expressly declared, in black and white, that they wanted to collect memberships and subscriptions (or at least, they did) by envisaging the construction of a mosque themselves. They wrote it first on social media, not politicians or newspapers. «Thanks to Almighty Allah and thanks to your prayers and donations, work has begun intensively on the paintings of the mosque of San Siro – we read, translated from Arabic in a post that appeared a few days ago and now mysteriously deleted, like the other similar one – until it is ready to open at the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan.” «We invite you to visit the site and stop by for the completion of the works in the mosquewhich will play an important role in the San Siro area” and adding: “We invite you to donate through the Al-Rahma Foundation account, or to donate building materials (…) and we also invite (…) to participate in the works”.
Now, the case must have induced the “imams” to retrace their steps, at least publicly: they sent a Cila (a building communication to the offices) on the same day in which the newspaper article was published, and evidently they took act of reaction not only and not so much from the centre-right, but from the municipal offices, who specified that the bureaucratic fulfillment for those works – however late fulfilled – in any case would not have been sufficient title to create a place of cult.
Here too, a Republic define “disavowed by the Constitutional Court” the anti-mosque law of the Region but they know that – apart from two provisions – the structure of the law remains. And above all they know that it is the Municipality that has established that in Milan today a mosque can only be built in via Esterle.
At this point, those in charge of the center will do what they must and what they can, but the story is very clear: perhaps there Republic would have preferred a center for second generation youth, but the Islamic Foundation wanted to (also) build a mosque there – they said so, not the centre-right. Unfortunately this cannot be done.