Frattini: a martyr. The cowardly Europe
"Now the cowards of Europe which seeks to escape the condemnation of religious fundamentalism will pay their crocodile tears, allies of those cowards who know only in Pakistan the blood of the attacks' . He did not use the language of diplomacy plush Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, express the strongest condemnation for the killing of Shahbaz Bhatti. "A symbol of religious freedom and paid with his life, defines the Minister, who personally knew the Pakistani colleague.
Minister, to whom he refers when he speaks of cowards of Europe?
I think people always very careful to <+corsivo> <+tondo> politically correct, to the point of never use, in an official document, the words "Christian persecution". I consider it a political cowardice that now, faced with a new martyr, is even more scandalous.
What do you remember the minister Bhatti?
was a courageous person, whom I met in a particularly difficult time for the life of his country. I met him in Rome last September and then I saw him in Islamabad in November, when we were all anxious to the death sentence that hangs over the head of Asia Bibi. In his office, a small and modest, introduced me to the leaders of various religious minorities, not only of Christianity to which he belonged. It gave me a confidence that I can now reveal.
What was it?
He said that his opponents were trying to remove the funds to the ministry for religious minorities, a way to reduce it to insignificance, and thus the closure. And he asked me to help him to publicize his work in the international community. Only way he could save his ministry.
In statement issued by the Ministry immediately after the killing of the minister Bhatti, asking the Pakistani authorities to shed light on the assassination and to confirm its commitment to defending the Christian minority. So far a reasonably low, is not it?
The fact that Pakistan's President Zardari had Bhatti confirmed in the recent cabinet reshuffle was an important signal. Now he must take a step further, going all the way in pursuing the perpetrators of a crime so heinous.
The blasphemy law was not changed ... The same minister
Bhatti was aware that this law, the internal political situation, it can not be repealed. He proposed changes that would prevent arbitrary application and absurd. The international community must continue to press for the blasphemy law is no longer a weapon of blackmail against minorities, a tool to condemn to death Christians as Asia Bibi. In his case the sentence was frozen, but we ask that his final acquittal.
The European Union has finally adopted a text in defense of religious freedom in the world, but the document makes no mention of concrete steps against those countries where religious minorities are persecuted ...
There was that political courage. But we have asked the High Representative for EU foreign policy, Mrs. Ashton, to report promptly to the Council on an action plan for the protection of religious freedom. And I am very attentive to his report. Europe can and must do more. As we did for Sakineh and Asia Bibi, I believe that the photo of Shahbaz Bhatti should camp on the front of some building of our institutions, to remember a great battle for freedom with its heroes and its martyrs.
Minister, the Libyan crisis there is at the forefront. Do not try a little 'embarrassment in order now that a character like Gaddafi has always been a privileged partner, received with full honors by the Italian government?
Look, is should experience the same embarrassment that so many world leaders. By the British who have returned to Tripoli, the terrorist massacre of Lockerbie, which hosted the French President Gaddafi to Paris for five days, to all those who voted in favor of Libya as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights. What matters now is that Italy, together with the vast majority of countries in the world, does not have anything to do with Gaddafi.
What will our government?
We decided two important humanitarian missions. The first, at the request of Egypt and Tunisia, provides aid to about 60 thousand Egyptians working in Libya and have now fled to Tunisia. We have been asked to assist and ensure that they can return home safely. The second humanitarian mission will head to Cyrenaica bringing food and medical supplies to a population exhausted.
What do you think of a possible military intervention from outside?
is a hypothesis that has already raised the concerns of the Arab League. Categorically exclude the possibility that Italy could take part in military action in Libya, for obvious reasons linked to our colonial past. At most, we could give the availability of our logistics bases, but in this case, a clear international mandate of the UN. And, anyway, any type of action must take into account the delicate political and cultural context of the Arab world.
Minister, to whom he refers when he speaks of cowards of Europe?
I think people always very careful to <+corsivo> <+tondo> politically correct, to the point of never use, in an official document, the words "Christian persecution". I consider it a political cowardice that now, faced with a new martyr, is even more scandalous.
What do you remember the minister Bhatti?
was a courageous person, whom I met in a particularly difficult time for the life of his country. I met him in Rome last September and then I saw him in Islamabad in November, when we were all anxious to the death sentence that hangs over the head of Asia Bibi. In his office, a small and modest, introduced me to the leaders of various religious minorities, not only of Christianity to which he belonged. It gave me a confidence that I can now reveal.
What was it?
He said that his opponents were trying to remove the funds to the ministry for religious minorities, a way to reduce it to insignificance, and thus the closure. And he asked me to help him to publicize his work in the international community. Only way he could save his ministry.
In statement issued by the Ministry immediately after the killing of the minister Bhatti, asking the Pakistani authorities to shed light on the assassination and to confirm its commitment to defending the Christian minority. So far a reasonably low, is not it?
The fact that Pakistan's President Zardari had Bhatti confirmed in the recent cabinet reshuffle was an important signal. Now he must take a step further, going all the way in pursuing the perpetrators of a crime so heinous.
The blasphemy law was not changed ... The same minister
Bhatti was aware that this law, the internal political situation, it can not be repealed. He proposed changes that would prevent arbitrary application and absurd. The international community must continue to press for the blasphemy law is no longer a weapon of blackmail against minorities, a tool to condemn to death Christians as Asia Bibi. In his case the sentence was frozen, but we ask that his final acquittal.
The European Union has finally adopted a text in defense of religious freedom in the world, but the document makes no mention of concrete steps against those countries where religious minorities are persecuted ...
There was that political courage. But we have asked the High Representative for EU foreign policy, Mrs. Ashton, to report promptly to the Council on an action plan for the protection of religious freedom. And I am very attentive to his report. Europe can and must do more. As we did for Sakineh and Asia Bibi, I believe that the photo of Shahbaz Bhatti should camp on the front of some building of our institutions, to remember a great battle for freedom with its heroes and its martyrs.
Minister, the Libyan crisis there is at the forefront. Do not try a little 'embarrassment in order now that a character like Gaddafi has always been a privileged partner, received with full honors by the Italian government?
Look, is should experience the same embarrassment that so many world leaders. By the British who have returned to Tripoli, the terrorist massacre of Lockerbie, which hosted the French President Gaddafi to Paris for five days, to all those who voted in favor of Libya as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights. What matters now is that Italy, together with the vast majority of countries in the world, does not have anything to do with Gaddafi.
What will our government?
We decided two important humanitarian missions. The first, at the request of Egypt and Tunisia, provides aid to about 60 thousand Egyptians working in Libya and have now fled to Tunisia. We have been asked to assist and ensure that they can return home safely. The second humanitarian mission will head to Cyrenaica bringing food and medical supplies to a population exhausted.
What do you think of a possible military intervention from outside?
is a hypothesis that has already raised the concerns of the Arab League. Categorically exclude the possibility that Italy could take part in military action in Libya, for obvious reasons linked to our colonial past. At most, we could give the availability of our logistics bases, but in this case, a clear international mandate of the UN. And, anyway, any type of action must take into account the delicate political and cultural context of the Arab world.
Louis Geninazzi
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