“They’ll return to their nation” –

«We’re loopy. That somebody asks to place hell, purgatory and heaven out of the classroom as a result of it offends another person and that there are professors who’ve the time to maintain up with them is insanity.” The deputy prime minister and chief of the League Matteo Salvini, right this moment in Cortona within the Arezzo space to current his newest e book “Controvento”, thus feedback on the case arising from the exemption from the research of the Divine Comedy determined for 2 Muslim college students in a center faculty within the province of Treviso. «One arrives in Italy, he’s welcome, we throw open the doorways, we provide faculty, well being, residence, work, future, however we can’t be those to vary – continued Salvini – No to the crucifix, to Christmas, to the Divine Comedy, to fairy tales , faculty closures for Ramadan. No, we’re in Italy. If somebody would not like Dante, if somebody would not like Jesus Kids, he also can return to his nation, peacefully.”

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The case considerations a center faculty in Treviso, the place the Muslim dad and mom of two eighth grade college students requested that their youngsters be exempted from learning Dante’s Divine Comedy and have the ability to exchange it with Boccaccio. A request that the trainer and the principal in the end accepted. It might have been the identical trainer, who up to now had needed to cope with some complaints on the identical matter, who requested prematurely the households of the youngsters who don’t comply with the faith class to let her know if that they had something towards the research of Dante. And at that time the 2 Muslim households expressed their opposition to the research of a textual content thought of disrespectful of the Islamic faith. An absurd case that dangers turning into a precedent. The Minister of Training Giuseppe Valditara yesterday introduced that an inspection has been «organized to confirm the details. The exclusion from the varsity curriculum of one of many pillars of our literature, for spiritual or cultural causes we now have not but absolutely understood, is totally unacceptable.”