"I believe in the intelligence of the universe, with the exception of some Swiss canton" Woody Allen
in Switzerland have a referendum to ban minarets. Given the unexpected success will soon organize another to also prohibit blacks and Italians. The latter, despite being victims of racism Swiss favorite, 'I have greatly appreciated the referendum and those who believe themselves to be Celtic because I would like horns around one in Italy.
They, despite the mania of neo-pagan liturgies, they want to include in the cross or crucifix flag, which to them are the same thing, but we do not know if it is a Celtic cross and whether the inclusion will take place before or after you have displayed the banner in the toilet. In any case, what happened in Switzerland shows, what's more they do the Israelis to the Palestinians, that democracy does not necessarily mean human rights. Of this "legalism from the gas chambers" (1) will do justice to the European Court of Human Rights, whose judgments "are of extraordinary importance, [though] few know them" (2)
II "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers "
now among the few there are the inhabitants of the peninsula. A recent, impeccable, Judgement of the European Court has had the merit of highlighting in all its dazzling splendor the terrible ignorance, within the limits of 'illiteracy, our politicians: none of them had the foresight to read it before judging it. They (not to mention a few comments of a vulgar disgusting) have mixed the Council of Europe with the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights by the EU Court of Justice, the cross with the crucifix and respect for human rights with lard colonnade: and have had the courage to say and write
things like this:''If there is a European Court of Justice, keep up the European Court of Human Rights is not, especially after Lisbon, a needless duplication? After the ruling yesterday would say: useless and harmful.''
III The facts and the sentence.
A Finnish woman, married to an Italian, with Italian children and herself an Italian national, has been acting head of educating its children to atheism. His claim, as "disgraceful" is not a crime, but runs into the habit of planting in each public school site, and then also paid taxes of atheists, considered the symbol of the dominant religion in this country. Mrs. protest perché, secondo lei, la presenza del simbolo religioso può indurre i suoi figlioli a ritenere che quanto viene loro insegnato a casa non sia poi così vero e ne chiede la rimozione. Le autorità scolastiche se ne guardano bene e la signora si rivolge a numerosi tribunali della Repubblica. Tribunali che si esibiscono in una serie di sentenze una
più surreale dell’altra.
A questo punto la testarda signora continua la sua lotta fuori dai confini nazionali e ottiene udienza presso la Corte Europea dei Diritti Umani del Consiglio d’Europa: organismo questo, non poi così finto, di cui fanno parte tutti i paesi del continente europeo (manca solo il Belarus) e da non confondere con l’Unione Europea che conta 27 members to 47. The Court hears both she and the Italian government and declares, in accordance with its previous decisions, what every honest person knows: that the display of religious symbols in public places is
a clear violation of international norms of civil coexistence and . Hypocrisy
IV The decision of the European Court has shown how big the hypocrisy of the Italians when it comes to applying those human rights which they love so fill your mouth. Italians are used to enforce these rights in every corner of the world, but, in what Lautsi c. Italie, have shown absolute contempt and just when they should be applied near home. It seems that these rights only weigh in exotic places, while it is close to home where they are born. This elementary respect for the rights of all does not go into self-styled defenders of the head to Western civilization, ranging claiming to be the universal symbol of the crucifix, though there are places in Europe where you shoot at you if presented with a crucifix.
The Italians can not understand this basic principle of the existence of "neutral zones" where we are nothing but human beings, because if, on entering any place, I find I think I'm a smiling Buddha in a Chinese restaurant and not to ' INPS. But if I see a large wooden crucifix is \u200b\u200bmore likely that I'm in court than in a convent, but, unlike the Chinese restaurant, I do not go to court for my personal pleasure.
Yet more than half a century ago, the Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was clear: "Where are born, after all, universal human rights? In small places, close to home. In such small places, so close that they can not be seen in any map. Yet these places are the world of the individual: the neighborhood where he lives, attending school or university, factory or office where he works. These are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice without discrimination, the opportunity and dignity. Unless these rights have meaning là, significano poco ovunque e se non sono applicati vicino casa non lo saranno nemmeno nel resto del mondo.”
V La sentenza Lautsi ha gettato la chiesa cattolica nel panico.
Qualche alto prelato, invece di pensare ai guai suoi, ha fatto la “sparata” dell’Europa che ci lascerebbe solo la zucca di Halloween e persino un settimanale solitamente sobrio come Famiglia Cristiana ci ha rovesciato addosso una quantità di fesserie da fare impallidire quelle leghiste. Hanno avuto l’impudenza di dire che, se non è giusto imporre il loro simbolo religioso in alcuni luoghi, allora coerenza impone di demolire ogni croce e radere al suolo ogni chiesa. Affermazioni che fanno dubitare (queste sì) del tasso alcolico di chi le scrive.
Ovviamente c’è sotto ben altro che qualche crocefisso attaccato al muro. In prospettiva ci sono altre cause e sentenze: sull’otto per mille obbligatorio, l’ICI non pagata, l’ora di religione senza alternative, eccetera. Insomma la chiesa cattolica teme di perdere la sua ferrea presa sulle finanze del cittadino italiano. Quella sulle coscienze l’ha persa molto tempo fa.
Il resto sono solo zucche vuote.
Note1 Italo Mereu, “La morte come pena”, Roma, Donzelli, 1982- 2000, p 197 2 Antonio Cassese “I diritti umani oggi”. Laterza, 2005, p 134
* membro del Comitato scientifico dell'Osservatorio