The poet in defense of the West fundamentalism wins when the reason you give up, give their history, the age-old traditions mixed with the salt of the customs and seasoned with the wisdom of civilized life. Fanaticism, sick companion of terrorism, where the West is advancing its role as a waiver of claim. It is ashamed of the signs Christian Christmas hiding them, covering them to avoid offending Muslim sensibilities. Actually, retires, defeated, throwing an ill-concealed sense of human solidarity towards other peoples of the earth and other religious beliefs. It is the beginning of the end.
to support a writer and a sharp thinker, uncomfortable, that knows no half-measures of mediation and, therefore, has made many enemies. Nico Naldini is an atheist, but not disbelieving. It has deeply angered in recent weeks, the news that England had chosen to forego the traditional Christian symbols of Christmas forgetting that speak to those who believe not. "This political correctness often becomes a betrayal of the secular state and represents a frightening withdrawal of Western culture on Islam. " Intellectual and poet, man of culture and cousin Pierpaolo Pasolini, Friuli and Treviso source adoption, Naldini look at what is happening in recent years on the fiery relationship between the West and East, between Christianity and Islam, and does not understand easier, fearful withdrawal. A friend of Oriana Fallaci, since at the time the Tuscan journalist wrote his first book - "The Seven Sins of Hollywood" - he worked at Longanesi, the publishing house that published it, she shared the fears. Not the anathemas. And today, just passed the feast of the Nativity, reflects on the clash between cultures and the inability complaint Europe to raise his head.
know the Muslim world? "It is eighteen years since I go to Tunisia in Sidi Bou Said, a village on the outskirts of Carthage, where I move up to raids in Algeria, and Morocco in the Sahara desert. The Islamic world attracts me, is a culture that I continue to study, as well as their religion. When I'm there I read, write and live in solitude because I abhor the Italian clubs. I go there six times a year for a month at a time so that, eventually, I live half the time in Italy and half in Tunisia. "
From what started her thinking about the clash of cultures? "I paused to reflect on the outcomes negative integration, not only in Italy but also in France and England. And "the" has offered me his England, a country which has abolished the signs of Christmas with the intent not to offend Muslim sensibilities. This is a victory for fundamentalists and terrorists and at the same time is a frightening withdrawal of Western culture before Islam, a message that the masses swallow up and incorporate as grasshoppers satiated and satisfied. They understand only that they made it. Who won. I say this because I have an image before my eyes that I had frozen blood. I was in Tunisia when the assault on the Twin Towers and all of half an hour later, in Tunisia, cell phones had the Twin Towers burning. It passed the messaggino with each other in victory. "
And the crucifixes in classrooms? "Even the crosses are part of our old tradition. How can we think of out of school? We live with, shoulders, the weight of our history and even if I am an atheist in the history of Christianity which has sent the council and everyone to read the words that ten years before he died, ie 20 November 1942, Benedetto Croce published on his magazine "Criticism." It was the essay "Why we can not call ourselves Christians". "
Why the clash between the West and Islam is strengthening? "This war breaks out now because the West is not as predominant as it was a century ago. The anti-western preaching is rooted in time and makes breakthrough in a community where the level of civil society is very low: there is poverty, subordination, even envy for the Western world. Thus, the fundamentalist faith is a glue between the various segments of the Muslim world and suggests a possible identification of all those fragments of Arab society that have a great history behind them who know very badly. Finally someone who tells them: "We are the true believers and our identity must be protected against non-believers." Step by step comes to the fanaticism and the terrorist attacks in America and Europe. "
What his feelings in front of everything? "I understand that we can not erase with a sponge everything handed down to us two thousand years of Christianity. I, as an atheist, I say that the Christian religion has taught us the great virtue of humility. We are the children of the humility of St. Francis and Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who have made the poorest of the poor. In the Muslim world there is humility, but the arrogance and rudeness: it is a people who take offense at all, and vows revenge unto death ".
So what can you do? "We must aim to maintain our culture alive and intact, based on logical-mathematical training of Newtonian mechanics, the modern rationality. As the crisis in the Western world can not caving in to fanaticism. Our culture must not fall back on itself, preventing any form of expression, not to disturb the minds of others, in the name of a mistaken sense of solidarity that will be interpreted as a failure of the West to Islam. They put in the field of primitive forces that we, with our culture, we have overcome for centuries: the law of retaliation, eye for an eye, the religion that marks daily life, fanaticism. "
His words are like so last crusade of journalist Oriana Fallaci ...
"No, I do not agree with Fallaci. I met her in Milan, at the time of his first book "The Seven Sins of Hollywood" because I was working in the publishing house which published the novel Longanesi. The attended and diventanno friends. But I will not be confused with her. She repeated his words and racial paradigms are fuel that lights the fire of fanaticism and fundamentalism. I warn anyone not to use weapons of racism, but rather, to avoid cultural retreat. Fallaci beats obsessively on the button of the war between civilizations, which he said is fatal. But exactly what should be avoided. The clash of civilizations would mean the end of all civilization. We are a carousel where you can suggest the prevalence of one over. "
And our politicians, how they behave?
"There is no point in launching a cardboard lightning useless against immigrants and immigration, as does the prosindaco Treviso Gentilini. We must instead focus on a more severe and more equitable justice, especially towards foreigners than Italians. Justificationism lack of severity and breadth of vision but are not narrow-mindedness of those who can not deal with problems, nor correct the criminoide Italian youth. "
Why is it so difficult to integrate the immigrants? "The Muslims I have known nel loro ambiente rappresentano la parte sana della loro società e sono migliori di quelli che arrivano in Italia. Una volta approdati nella nostra società opulenta si mettono in gioco secondo gli aspetti accessibili alla loro sensibilità; molti di loro si adattano a lavorare mandando avanti le aziende del Veneto, molti altri ingrossano le fila della microcriminalità. In entrambi i casi, sia gli onesti che i disonesti, sono sfruttati e quindi accumulano frustrazioni e incamerano odio. In Europa perdono la loro identità più genuina senza acquisirne una nuova e diventano schegge impazzite, facile preda del credo fondamentalista. Così, il problema non è di natura xenofoba, quanto piuttosto di capacità di accoglienza. E lo dico a un popolo, the Venetians, who have made immigration one of their strengths. "
there a solution? The institutions are still weak. There are, for example, serious investigation to find out how many are immigrants who work illegally, how they live, how and where they aggregate. It is for institutions to do this. Instead the rule gooders and laxity. Lacking any elaboration of a cultural phenomenon that is spreading and threatens to overwhelm us. Are accepted only conduct aliens. It is not a criticism of immigration, which instead should be studied because, for example, we can not imagine that you are still dying of diseases we eradicated a long time, as happens for example in Sudan. Or, to have in our memories as the piles of corpses happens to the people of Kosovo. Those are not our lives and even our memories. Here's what we try to understand in order to regulate a phenomenon that represents a potential resource and may, instead of turning into a catastrophe, without launching anathemas and useless without forgetting our achievements. "
Naldini closes the interview with the suitcase prepared to reach Tunisia. Will spend the entire holiday period, convinced that a hope of peaceful coexistence among peoples should always be sought, starting from the analysis of sincerity and wisdom of the study.
Valeria Lipparini
Gazzettino
