Italy: One Fine Day in Old Milano

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This week in Milan, about 1,000 Shi'ite Muslims turned out on the streets to celebrate one of their holidays. This included a public prayer and a march from the Central Train Station to Piazza della Repubblica. The women, of course, were fully veiled and separated from the men by a security detail.

The below commentary by Il Tempo reporter Giulia Sorrentino is quite critical and points out that it is just the latest demonstration of how Islam considers women.  Sorrentino also states that it is the latest episode of the West subjugating itself to Islam. The article is translated by Fousesquawk. It also has a video of the public demonstration.

Milan, Chaos in the city center and Islamic invasion. Muslims gather for Ashura-Video

July 6, 2025

There was a real Islamic invasion in Milan where some 1,000 Shiite Muslims gathered on the occasion of the celebration of Ashura, the Islamic holiday that commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (grandson of the Prophet Mohammad) in the battle of Kerbala. But what is truly disgusting is the latest episode of female discrimination, which we had to witness in silence, and the absence of condemnation on the part of the left both during the moment of prayer with the imam and the march from the Central Train Station to Piazza della Repubblica , the women, entirely veiled, kept at a distance from the men, even with a security detail assigned to them. In this extremely radical demonstration, which has nothing to do with the values of the West, there was a maximum expression of the way Islam considers the female sex. Inferior, marginalized, and subjugated in the name of a man who has total supremacy over every single aspect of daily life. Commenting on the episode is Lega (party) Deputy, Silvia Sardone, who stresses that it is a clear signal of the increasingly marked Islamization, with cultures distant from ours that are imposing themselves, also due to our incapacity to defend our identity and traditions. After the prayer inside an enclosure that we saw in the recent Muslim holidays, a latest signal of how, in many Islamic communities, women are considered. The future of Europe that we imagine is certainly not one of mosques in continuous expansion, lights for Ramadan, schools closed for Islamic holidays, or students who go to pray in mosques. The risk is that of a Europe, which, year after year, subjugates itself to Islam. 

-Giulia Sorrentino