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Of Maurizio Blondet
In the EU neither free nor (above all) equal
Source: Maurizio Blondet
We were talking yesterday:
Every day we need to become more aware that the struggle towards this EU is a true liberation struggle - for the reconquest of freedom and equality in the European assembly, where we have been reduced to inferiors and subordinates.
An OECD woman orders us not to abolish the Fornero law and accuses Italy of being "a risk for European prosperity".
The ECB and the Commission threaten us with apocalypse and retaliation if we "exceed" the 1.6 percent deficit, denying us the 2, and the 2,9 – but it wasn't the 3, the limit for everyone else? while Macron will exceed the 3 percent this year as well as for at least five years, without receiving any censorship.
What we are so strictly prohibited from doing is deficit spending 10-15 billion; while the ECB has not noticed that Danske Bank has, between 2007 and the 2015, recycled 200 billion euros – and all in the Estonian branch, that is, of a country of 1,4 millions of inhabitants, whose gross domestic product is 22 billion, that is, a tenth of the amount recycled and made to disappear. But Denmark and Estonia are not a risk to Europe's prosperity – Italy is. Read More

No death sentence for the apostate, and freedom of choice for those who want to embrace other faiths: This is what the Higher Council of Ulema in Morocco expressed itself for the first time, paving the way for Islamic reformism

Of KARIMA MOUAL

No death sentence for the apostate and freedom for those who want to leave Islam and embrace other faiths. It's a historic position, the one assumed by the highest religious representation of Morocco, the Higher Council of Ulema, which continues to courageously pave the way for reformism within Islam – at least his own – without shadows or ambiguity. We are therefore aiming for a high level of discussion, even taking a step back from the past. The Council in fact rejects its previous fatwa of 2012 according to which Moroccans guilty of apostasy would have a single destiny: death. A common rule for all Muslim countries, but provided for in various forms by the legal regulations in force. In Morocco, for example, the death penalty is not contemplated, but the penal code speaks of detention for the apostate which can go up to 3 years.
A position, but, which had already caused a lot of discussion at the time in a country that has made religious pluralism its flagship, and who more than others pays attention to it and carries out immense work to defend his position and vision of a "moderate Islam". The Ulema Council therefore, tries to draw a clear line on a very current issue, politically and socially inconvenient and which in the future could present itself as a deadly trap because in the country they have revealed, without any more filters, inhabitants who moved from Sunnism to Shiism (the first Shiite centers opened only last year) as well as Christianity or, really, all’ateismo. Voices that have recently come out of hiding, challenging the hypocrisy of those who know them, but he doesn't want to recognize them.
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