If it’s not a reverse gear, it looks a lot like one. The managers of the Uisp (the Italian sports for all union), after the fuss raised by the decision to close the municipal swimming pool of Figline Valdarno to organize a swimming course dedicated exclusively to Muslim women, tried to (clumsily) correct the situation. «The swimming course is open to all women of every culture, creed and ethnicity who want to attend the pool in an environment dedicated to them. The swimming pool – it is highlighted in a note – is usually open at other times and so spaces are not taken away from other swimming activities carried out within the facility. Indeed, the range of sporting activities is expanding.” A position shared, under the aegis and supervision of the Democratic Party, also by the mayor of the town located halfway between Florence and Arezzo, Valero Pianigiani. «I want to specify that access is reserved for all women without any distinction. Those who for years, like myself, have been committed to the front line for inclusive citizenship can only reject to the sender any accusation of marginalization of our community which, on the contrary, has shown proof of maturity”.
A choice, that of submitting to Islamic culture, which the center-right did not like at all. The leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, also spoke on the topic with a post on social media. “Unacceptable. Sport is inclusion and sharing. If instead you decide to isolate and segregate Muslim women to respect their right to sport, you go against these principles. As the League, we will go all the way and ask for clarity: integration is not done this way.” The Northern League MEP, Susanna Ceccardi, also shares the same opinion. «So much embarrassment and so much hypocrisy in the backtracking of the mayor of Figline Valdarno. Clear proof that that project ghettoised rather than integrated the seven fellow citizens of the Muslim faith. Who knows if the Democratic Party has learned its lesson: if you go too far with do-goodism, the progressive becomes the Taliban.” Brothers of Italy also protest, with the city councilor of Florence, Alessandro Draghi. “In this case there is something that doesn’t add up in the integration process.”
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