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October 25, 2007
Italy: Mosque Arson Attack
A mosque in Abbiategrasso, 12 miles west of Milan, was subjected to a molotov cocktail attack yesterday. The young arsonist was masked, and threw the cocktail from his scooter-type motorcycle in the late afternoon. The fuel-filled bottle landed in the mosque courtyard. The Alif Baa Islamic Center on Via Civellino was not seriously damaged and no-one was hurt. The fire was quickly extinguished.
The mosque had similar incidents earlier this year on July 25 and August 10. The attack was the eighth of its kind in Lombardy region over the past few months.
On August 5, a mosque in the nearby city of Segrate was attacked, and a car belonging to Hamid Zarate, the imam, was destroyed.
Abbiategrasso is the home city of Giancarlo Bossi (pictured), a missionary who was kidnapped in the Philippines on July 10 this year.
He was riding a motorcycle on his way to celebrate Sunday Mass at Payao town in Zamboanga Sibugay province, Mindanao island, when 10 armed men blocked his path. Pope Benedict XVI condemned the priest's abduction. The Catholic priest was abducted days after Filipino president Gloria Arroyo returned from a private audience with the Pope at the Vatican. Bossi had been taken away in a boat. He was freed on Thursday July 19.
Speaking of yesteday's arson incident, Bossi said: "There is a need for dialogue among religions. Whoever committed this act is a fanatic who does not respect a sacred place"
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 25, 2007 4:06 PM
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