The Archipelago Project ~ Carnival of Venice
These photos just in from a feral in the Venetian Division of La Kosher Nostra:
Apparently, there are now six thousand Mahommedans living in the city. Perhaps more than in any other European city I have seen, Christianity is integral to the very stones of Venice: besides the large number of churches, every street, alley and passageway has numerous shrines to the Virgin Mary and other saints incorporated as niches in the walls of the buildings.
Base for "Palestina Libera" and other "Pace" and "Liberazione" actions. Just two minutes' walk away, on the other side of the canal, lies Campo Ghetto Nuovo", centre of Venice's small but thriving Jewish community. The square has a permanent police presence (an observation post and frequent patrols) for protection.
ISTANBUL - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that they wanted to respect all religions and be tolerant to all beliefs and ideologies.Speaking at a fast-breaking dinner hosted by Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday evening, Zapatero said that Spain extended full support to Turkey regarding reforms in administrative and economic structures and also deepening freedoms.
Zapatero said that politicians, together, had to overcome economic difficulties both on national and international level, and he added that it was necessary to act together against difficulties such as the ones in energy area.
Zapatero also said that "we will have a stronger European Union with the membership of Turkey".
He said that Turkey's EU membership process would not be easy, and it was never easy for any country. He added that Spain had a difficult negotiation process for ten years.
Zapatero said that Spain would share all of its experience with Turkey in EU issue. He said that Turkey and Spain were both Mediterranean countries, thus the two countries were sensitive towards the stability and reforms in the region as well as encouraging peace process in the Middle East.
Zapatero said that Alliance of Civilizations Initiative, which was co-chaired by him and Turkish Premier Erdogan, recorded a great progress.
He added that the second forum of Alliance of Civilizations Initiative would take place in Istanbul in April, 2009.
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In a sign of his simmering anger about what he sees as baseless accusations against Islam in the West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, has called on the international community to declare the enmity against Islam a “crime against humanity”.
Addressing Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, his Spanish counterpart, and about 2,500 other guests in Istanbul at a celebratory iftar meal on Monday, Mr Erdogan said: “No culture, no civilisation should belittle the other, despise the other or see the other as an enemy.” [...]
In the Alliance of Civilisations, Mr Erdogan has emerged as a leading representative of the Islamic countries, said Semih Idiz, a foreign policy columnist with the daily Milliyet. As a politician with roots in political Islam and leader of a party that has many pious Muslims among its voters, Mr Erdogan is very sensitive....
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