[Nettime-bold] "islamic terrorism and anti-globalist" link - berlusconi

["cpaul" <inc@fastmedia.net>]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/28/world/world3.html

Western society superior to Islam, says Berlusconi

By John Hooper and Kate Connolly in Berlin

Italy's Prime Minister, Mr Silvio Berlusconi, has gone out of his way to
stress what every other leader backing America's "war on terrorism" is
desperate to deny - that the looming conflict is, at bottom, a clash of
civilisations.

Three times during a lightning visit to Berlin on Wednesday, Mr Berlusconi
enthusiastically proclaimed views that will appal Western leaders and
confirm the worst suspicions of many Muslims. He boasted of the "supremacy"
and "superiority" of Western civilisation and called on Europe to recognise
its "common Christian roots".

Mr Berlusconi, who has been under pressure over the handling of protests at
this year's G8 summit in Genoa, also claimed a link between Islamist
terrorism and the anti-globalisation movement. There was a "strange
unanimity" between them, and both were enemies of Western civilisation.





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