ITALY: OVER 200,000 MUSLIMS CELEBRATE END OF RAMADAN
Rome, 23 Oct. (AKI) - Over 200,000 Muslims in Italy on Monday celebrated the end of the holy month of Ramadan, according to the country's largest Muslim group, the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII). The group's spokesman, Hamza Piccardo, told Adnkronos International (AKI) that "this number is particularly significant given that this was a working day." No exact data is available on the number of Muslims currently living in Italy, where Islam has become the second main religion after Catholicism. Estimates put the number between 700,000 and 1.2 million. UCOII said most celebrations took place in Italy's capital Rome and in Milan, in the North. Over 13,000 faithful reportedly attended celebrations throughout Milan, the country's financial capital.
In Rome, 16,000 Muslims celebrated at the city's main mosque, the largest in Europe, as well as at a smaller mosque in Centocelle and in the central Piazza Vittorio, where celebrations were organized by the Bengali community. Comment EU-Digest: with Muslims freely celebrating their religious cermonies all over Europe, maybe one day Christians and other religions will also be allowed to do the same in those nations which presently still prohibit freedom of religious expression other than their own.
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