إيطاليا: مصور فوتوغرافي يرصد بعدسته أزمة المساجد

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أكد الصحفي البريطاني "مارتن بار" في مقدمته على الكتاب المصور للمصور الفوتوغرافي "نيكولو ديجورجيس"، أنه بالرغم من كفالة الدستوري الإيطالي لحق العبادة دون تمييز، فإنه لا يوجد سوى 8 مساجد رسمية لتستوعب 1.35 مليون مسلم؛ مما يدفعه للصلاة بأماكن إيقاف السيارات والصالات الرياضية والمتاجر.

وقد كشف المصور هذه الأزمة بالانتقال من مدينة لأخرى؛ حيث رصدت كاميرته المسلمين الذين يصلون بالطرقات والأماكن المختلفة لعدم توفر المساجد.

وبالرغم من شراء المسلمين مبنى في "ترفيزو" لتخصيصه للصلاة، اعترضت السلطات المحلية ضاربة بالقانون الإيطالي الذي يكفل حرية العبادة عرض الحائط؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Italy’s Hidden Islam Uncovered

An Italian award-winning photographer has lifted the veil on problems facing Italian Muslims to find a suitable place for worshipping, with the large minority being forced to pray in garages, gyms, and shops, The Guardian reported.

“In Italy the right to worship, without discrimination, is enshrined within the constitution. There are 1.35 million Muslims in Italy and yet, officially, only eight mosques in the whole country,” Martin Parr wrote in introduction to Nicolo Degiorgis’s award-winning photobook Hidden Islam.

“One consequence is that the Muslim population have accumulated a huge number of makeshift and temporary places of worship. These are housed in a variety of buildings including lock ups, garages, shops, warehouses and old factories.”

In his book, Hidden Islam, Degiorgis contrasts the peace of prayer with the tension of politics by looking at how and where Muslims worship in Italy, a country with an estimated 1.45 million believers but only eight official mosques.

The book moves from city to another, showing Muslim worshippers kneeling or prostrating in small, hidden places like shops, back gardens or warehouses.

In Treviso, where local worshippers purchased a building, they have been prevented by the local authority from turning it into a mosque despite the right to worship being freely enshrined in Italian law.

In North Italy, where Degiorgis comes from, the rightwing party, Lega Nord, has risen in popularity lately due to its hard line on immigration and anti-Islamic views.

The book received this year's author book award at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival.

Italy has a Muslim population of some 1.7 million, including 20,000 reverts, according to the figures released by Istat, the national statistics agency.