Giulia Sorrentino
The first major result in the fight against Islamic fundamentalism: Turin imam Mohamed Shahin, from the Omar Ibn Al Khattab mosque in via Saluzzo, received a decree of expulsion, signed by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, for reasons of national security. He is now undergoing CPR in Caltanissetta, but he is still trying his last trick, applying for asylum. A decision, taken by the Ministry of Interior, came after Shahin’s statement on October 9 during the ProPal demonstration, to support Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, considering it an act of resistance after what he described as years of Israeli occupation. After months of condemning these events, in places that glorify violence, the first real action to remove those who praise terrorism has arrived. Also because it was not just any individual, but a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood who, in his words, had caused “a huge media wave and outrage”.
But most importantly, what the Turin provincial police commissioner highlighted lies in the fact that the imam “exercises his prominent role in radical Islamist circles, is incompatible with the democratic principles and ethical values that inspire the Italian legal system, is a messenger of fundamentalist and anti-Semitic ideology and is responsible for behavior that constitutes a real, current and serious threat to the security of the State”. Shahin has repeatedly expressed his sympathy on social media towards the faces of Hamas, including the late former leader, Ismail Haniyeh, and towards Muhammad Morsi, the former President of Egypt, a symbol of brotherhood, a man who said “we must not forget, brothers, to feed our children and grandchildren with hatred for Zionists and Jews”.
And again “the Jews and the Zionists are leeches attacking the Palestinians, they are warmongers, they are the offspring of monkeys and pigs”, which was depicted on television as he prayed “for the destruction of the Jewish people”. Here Shahin remembers him as a martyr, as someone worth celebrating, as someone worth admiring. And how can various Brahim Baya, who immediately declare their solidarity, claim to be an expression of moderate Islam if they support fans or exponents of the Muslim Brotherhood? Baya, who several times attacked Il Tempo, a former priest. capital of Piedmont, and omnipresent in the square, ProPal even launched a petition for him: «Sign and share. The Italian government wants to hand over innocent people to the Egyptian regime because he defended Gaza. Stop Mohamed’s expulsion.”
This is because, when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a 62-year-old Muslim, former head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, was elected president of Egypt in June 2014, he changed the situation, fiercely fighting terrorists: “The ideology of the Muslim brothers is dangerous”, he said, adding that “they do not have the slightest religious or political tolerance. They call for Islam to seize all economic and political power. A jihadist is nothing more than the Muslim Brotherhood in its final stages. They have different names, but all adhere to a deadly ideology the same thing. They want to destroy not only the Arab world but the whole world.”
A message that must be delivered loud and clear on the day that US President Donald Trump listed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, especially for those who think they can associate with dangerous fundamentalists and remain unpunished or protect themselves with Italian citizenship. There are too many fields where small and large Shahins cried out similar atrocities, now the State is acting with expulsions, because the Palestinian struggle cannot be accompanied by the irregular violence that they “give” us every day against the Jewish people and against the democracy we have achieved with great difficulty.
