Subject: Greetings

Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002 6:47 AM

Dear Sir,

I would like to outline briefly the reasons why I am pessimistic about our civilization surviving the onslaught of Islam.

1) First there is a phenomenon which is going on just at my doorstep:

Italy, Spain, France and some other European countries have been assaulted, during the past five years, by hordes of illegal immigrants (the category of legal immigrants being almost non-existent, at least as far as Italy is concerned). They are for the most part (90%) followers of Islam, ignorant and aggressive, showing no respect for their host countries. That may sound a bit racist on my part but, believe me, it isn’t. I enjoy cultural and religious diversity but I have no respect for a culture or a religion that in turn has no respect for human beings (if a religion advocates death by lapidation, no considerations of cultural relativism could convince me to tolerate or abet such a folly). Some countries are already being held hostage by their Muslim minorities. Take France or Germany (or, to a lesser extent, Italy). France, with its North African immigrants and Germany, with its Turkish and Kurdish minorities, are not completely free to make political decisions when the interests of Muslim countries are at stake. A ludicrous example: a few days ago, at the World Cup Championship, Germany kept their collective fingers crossed when Brazil played Turkey for the semifinals lest Turkey should win and play Germany in the finals. The Germans feared that if they won over Turkey, the Turkish immigrants in Germany would go on the rampage or, worse still, commit acts of terrorism targeting civilians there.

Do you remember Oèalan, the Kurdish leader? He apparently committed some acts of terrorism in Germany but that country forbore from requesting his extradition (he was in Italy at the time, a guest of our Communist Party!) and we know why. It fell to the Italians to gingerly pull the proverbial chestnut out of the fire.

This is happening now that Muslims are a small part of the entire population, but what will happen when they grow in numbers, for grow they will, there is no doubt about it. Let’s look at the situation in Italy. Every day, and I literally mean every day, hundreds of illegal immigrants from Muslim countries reach our shores (men, women and children). We know they pay large sums of money for their sea voyages: from 5,000 to 10,000 US dollars per person (a lot of money for people purporting to be fleeing poverty in their own countries!). Where the deuce do they get all that money from? Wouldn’t one be justified in thinking that omnipresent Saudi Arabia may be behind all this, financing wave after wave of Muslim immigrants? They come to Italy, they are loath to abide by our laws, they meet in so-called Islamic Centres, built by Saudi Arabia together with hundreds of mosques, where they easily fell prey to mad clerics preaching jihad against the infidels (after September 11 we found out that many of those Islamic Centres were recruiting centres for terrorists). How much of a threat do those immigrants pose for European democracies? I think they constitute a clear and present danger. It is only a matter of time before heinous acts of terrorism are visited upon us in Europe. It is true that today they constitute only a small part of the total population of our countries, but if you are an aggressive, belligerent minority bent on committing acts of terrorism, you are enough to cause a country to cower in submission or at least acquiescence.

2) International Islamic terrorism on a global scale cannot be curbed, let alone defeated: witness what is happening in America, where the social patterns of everyday life are being disrupted almost beyond recognition.

3) I wouldn’t dismiss the nuclear or bacteriological threat by Islamic countries (Pakistan, soon to be followed by Iraq, Egypt, Iran, etc., etc.). Given the totalitarian regimes in those countries and the danger of fundamentalists taking over in Pakistan, I think there is some food for thought there.

Best regards from Italy,

Antonio