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Not a big event. Not a truck running over, killing dozens of pedestrians. Not a suicide bombing at a pizzeria or a Passover service. Not a massacre of schoolgirls, as at Ma’alot. Not the systematic murder of Olympic athletes as at Munich. Not a machete attack on a soldier out for a jog in London. No, this instructive little tale is about just one small but significant event, out of many thousands of similar events, that take place each day in Europe, where Muslims decide to make the indigenous Infidels conform to Muslim rules. Instead of integrating into European societies, many Muslims want the non-Muslims to adjust to Muslim demands. In this case, it was just a matter of a sandwich being quietly consumed on a bus in Italy. Mangia, mangia, Italian mothers tell their children, even during Ramadan. But in Italy today, the Muslim “guests of the nation,” as some mordantly call them, are in Italy not to integrate into the host society, but to live on the largesse lavished upon them by the Italian taxpayers, whose government provides Muslim economic migrants’ with free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, including vocational training and language instruction, and even with family allowances, while those Muslims offer nothing in return save contempt for the non-Muslims whom the Qur’an describes as “the most vile of created beings.”
This Ramadan, two Muslim girls on a bus in Italy took it upon themselves to act like the religious police in Iran and Saudi Arabia, enforcing Muslim strictures — but in this case, they decided to hit, slap, beat up, a non-Muslim girl for not observing a Muslim law while screaming “it’s Ramadan. You can’t eat anything.” The story is here: “Two girls beat up a girl their age on the bus for a sandwich: ‘It’s Ramadan, you can’t eat.’ Then they attack the driver,” translated from “Due ragazze picchiano coetanea sul bus per un panino: “C’è il Ramadan, non puoi mangiare”. Poi aggrediscono l’autista,” Il Giorno, March 5, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):
Attack on board a bus on the Cremona-Spinadesco line. Two girls of foreign origin allegedly slapped an Italian girl of the same age because she was eating a sandwich on the bus, insulting her: “Bitch, you can’t eat, it’s Ramadan”. When the driver then intervened to defend the young woman, the two allegedly pushed him and scratched him in the face, breaking his glasses and sending him to the emergency room.
The facts, reported by the newspaper La Provincia di Cremona, supposedly occurred on Tuesday, March 4 and were recounted by the driver himself, 52 years old, once he left the hospital after five days of treatment. The man said that some women raised the alarm: “Driver, they are fighting, stop!”. At that point he stopped, opened all the doors and ordered them to get off the bus. “I saw that at that moment they were slapping the Italian girl. I immediately called the police who arrived immediately, within a couple of minutes”.
The bus driver was hospitalized for five days. That means his wounds were not minor. The two girls had broken his glasses — did shards of that glass enter his eyes? Or was there some other injury that would require that five-day stay in the hospital?
Think about it. These two Muslim girls saw an Italian girl quietly eating a sandwich. They were enraged at this violation of what is supposed to be a rule observed only by Muslims during the holy month, of Ramadan. Muslims must not eat during the day. The girl was not a Muslim, but Italy, in their eyes, was no longer her country. For them, it is a place where millions of Muslims now live, and Muslim rules, those girls beating her believed, must apply to everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
The girls were made to get off, but when one of the two jumped off the bus – said the driver – “she pushed me in the stomach. The other one then started pushing me, broke my glasses, scratched my face”. The driver said he will file a complaint with the police, attaching the medical report.
The news has sparked strong reactions. The attack was harshly criticized by the Muslim community. “Muslims living in Italy must respect the laws of the country and behave as responsible citizens. If we want to be respected, we must first of all respect others and the context in which we live,” commented Aftab Ahmed, a member of the Immigrants’ Council and president of the association Immigrati Cittadini Onlus of Cremona.
“It is deeply deplorable and goes against the principles of Islam, as well as against the laws and values of Italian society. Islam,” added Aftab, “teaches respect, not imposition. It promotes tolerance, peaceful coexistence. And Ramadan, in particular, is not just a month of fasting, but a period of inner purification, self-control and solidarity. Fasting does not simply mean abstaining from food and water, but also from intolerance, arrogance and aggression. No one has the right to impose their religious practices on others, much less by force. Whether it is Ramadan or any other religious occasion, we must demonstrate through our actions that our faith teaches tolerance, respect and peaceful coexistence. Every violation of the rules does not only harm the individual, but compromises the image of the entire Muslim community.”
Damage control from Aftab Ahmed, as befits his communal position.. He had to say something to distance the “Muslim community” from this outrage. A question for Mr. Aftab Ahmed: Do your imams preach the same message in the mosques, instructing Muslims that they must not try to enforce Muslim rules on non-Muslims, and must always obey the laws of the (Infidel) land? The fact is there are too many incidents, all over Western Europe, where Muslims try to enforce Muslim rules on non-Muslims, and not only during Ramadan.
In contrast, the deputy of the Lega, Silvia Sardone, defined the incident as “emblematic of what the most radical Islam is: violence and oppression towards those who are not Muslims. And yet there are still some, on the left, who continue to bow to the growing Islamization, closing schools for Ramadan, adapting the canteen menus to please the various Muslim communities and even allowing the niqab in class.”
Last year, a K-12 public school near Milan closed for the Feast of Eid al-Fitr, held on the last day of Ramadan, thus forcing the majority of students who were not Muslim, and their parents, to rearrange their schedules, find babysitters for the younger children, in order to accommodate a Muslim minority. In some Italian schools, pork products have been banned so as not to offend Muslims. The niqab, which covers the face but allows a slit for the eyes has been allowed as suitable clothing in a few schools. All of this has angered many Italians, including the head of the Lega Party, Matteo Salvini.
What will happen to those two girls? How old are they? If old enough, will they be charged with assault and battery on both the girl with the sandwich and the bus driver? After serving their sentences or paying their fines, could they be deported when they are no longer minors? How likely is it that they will ever become productive, law-abiding, and non-violent citizens of Italy, and not permanent drains on the exchequer and presences threatening to Infidels when out in public? You know the answer to that.
