Debate in Italy? Not yet.
Italy is the country where the late Oriana Fallaci was indicted for speaking her mind about Islam; within its borders is the Vatican, whose head of state became a target of Muslim wrath when he quoted in a speech an obscure Byzantine emperors remarks about the religion of Muhammed. Yet as Angelo Pezzana observes in this piece for rights.no, the issue of Islamization has occasioned nary a parliamentary debate, TV opinion poll, or editorial commentary in his country not, that is, until the other day, when Italys leading newspaper prominently featured an extraordinarily provocative editorial on the subject. Yet even that, he discovered, wasnt enough to kick off the debate that the land of Garibaldi so desperately needs.