Italian President, Mr.
Giorgio Napolitano opened the prestigious
Turin book fair Thursday amid opposition from Muslim
extremists and Italian Leftists over the choice of Israel as the event's guest of
honor.
"No dialogue is possible if there is a refusal to recognize
Israel,"
Napolitano said at
Israel's stand at the fair, the European
Jewish Press reported.
Napolitano added that there can be no
"rejection of the reasons for [ Israel's] birth or of its right to exist in
peace and security."
Like the Paris book fair in March, the
Turin fair is honoring the modern state of
Israel on the 60th anniversary of its
creation.
Israel's stand was swamped by hundreds of
people, many draped in the Israeli flag, with one group holding a banner
that read: "I feel Jewish today."
The Turin fair, which is now in its 21st year,
will be attended by some 1,400 publishers this year.
Neftasia Editore, a publishing company in
Italy invited Muslim Zionist Sheikh Abdul
Hadi Palazzi to introduce to the public "Non Sono Colpevole" (I Am not
Guilty), the first Italian book written by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury,
which includes his articles and well articles by other.
Bangladeshi
Muslim Zionist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury faces sedition, treason and
blasphemy charges for confronting radical Islam, for promoting interfaith
understanding and for demanding relations between Israel and Muslim nations. He is presently
facing trial. According to Bangladesh law, sedition bears capital
punishment.
Since Shoaib Choudhury
was denied the right to participate at the fair [even to participate by
sending an audio file!] Sheikh Palazzi introduced to the public at the
Turin Fair the terming Shoaib as “man who is the hero of the Zionist
Muslims and the hero of those who campaign in support of Israel.”
In his interview with reporter from Weekly Blitz, Sheikh
Palazzi said, “I was glad to have an opportunity to say "Happy Birthday
Israel" on her 60th
Anniversary, and to say it in the name of Shoaib, too. The members of the
Jewish Community of Turin and of the Italy-Israel Fellowship of
Turin run to
Neftasia's stand to ask for copies of the book, which was sold not only at
the Neftasia's stand, but also at the Israelmain stand. They love Shoaib and pray
for him.”
He said,
“ Italy is changing for the best. Today even
communists and former communists are running to say "we are as pro-Israeli
as Berlusconi is". The "Boycott Israel march" saw the participation of some
hundreds of anti global youngsters, only. It was a total failure, and even
those leftist politicians who in the past used to raise their voice to
condemn Israel are now speaking to condemn the
boycott.”
He further said, “Recent elections
nullified the presence in our Parliament of the extreme leftist parties,
and grant a victory to Berlusconi who said: " Israel's birthday is our
birthday, too." As a consequence, for the first time our new major
Alemanno chose to raise the Israeli flag upon the Capitol.”
Eminent Muslim Zionist Palazzi further
said, “The best satisfaction, however, was rising it in Turin, in
front of the boycotters, and to do so in Shoaib’s name,
too.”
A
broom and a flag
