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Councillors remove city hall Muslim rug

Councillors remove city hall Muslim rug

Turin councillors face wide criticism for action

Turin, 28 July 2015, 19:05

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Councillors from Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party faced criticism from political opponents on Tuesday after they removed a prayer rug that Turin's city hall had provided for Muslim attendants of a conference.
    Fabrizio Ricca and Roberto Carbonero from the Northern League said they had removed the rug because the city office is a secular building, while insisting they had nothing against Islam as a religion.
    "If someone wants to pray, Turin has many religious centres where they can go," League councillors said.
    "Why is it that no one ever bothers to set up a chapel when conference participants are Christians?," they added.
    The city council had set up a Muslim prayer room during an international conference on Islamic fashion.
    Michele Paolino, head of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) on Turin council, said the League's action was a "violent gesture that offends believers of any religion".
    The president of Turin Council, Giovanni Porcino, sent the League councillors a letter condemning their "unjustified and unseemly actions".
   

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