It’s controversy for the Islamic prayer With the’Imam which was held at the University of Turin, meeting which was filmed inside the occupied university and which went viral on the web. Brahim Baya, present at Palazzo Nuovo, held a meeting on Friday 17 May with the title “What Palestine teaches us” and aroused condemnation from some professors who spoke of a “hymn to Jihad”. The Minister of the University also spoke Anna Maria Bernini who asked the rector Stefano Geuna for explanations.
The Imam’s prayer that causes discussion
The meeting with Brahim Baya, the Imam among those responsible for the Taiba mosque in Via Chivasso and among the promoters of Turin for Gaza, was attended by several demonstrators and faithful. In his sermon he talked about the Palestine as a land “always targeted by invaders, of the arrogant, of the colonizers, it was at the time of the Crusades”.
He explained that “the new Zionists arrived to take that land, to settle in a colonialism in which they claimed that land was without people.” “They didn’t calculate that there is a people, but not a people like the others, but the Palestinian people,” said Brahim Baya.
It is here that speaking of the last seven months, the Imam continues, he says “the teaching that came from that people“. Teaching which, due to the suffering experienced, defines “a form of Jihad in the highest sense of this term, as an effort to defend one’s rights, as an effort to defend human life, as an effort to defend peace”.
Minister Bernini calls the rector
The University Minister’s reaction was immediate Anna Maria Bernini who called the rector Stefano Geuna to ask for clarification on what happened.
The rector, underlining that the seat was occupied, reiterated to the minister “the secular character of the university institution”. Together with Bernini he therefore condemned the incident.
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Action also raises controversy
He also spoke on Imam Brahim Baya’s sermon Oswald Naplesof the national secretariat of Action.
Naples, underlining that the prayer at the University of Turin “is another sad chapter of the “cancel culture” and of that feeling of “cupio dissolvi” in which some of the new generations find refuge”.
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