Rome, Italy, Dec 3, 2008 / 12:31 pm
Muslim convert to Catholicism and journalist Magdi Allam has launched a new political party in Rome called the “Protagonists for a Christian Europe.” The new party will present candidates for the next European elections on June 7, 2009.
Allam’s new party aims to “fill the ethical void” that exists in Italy and in Europe and will be based on the “Judeo-Christian roots of Europe.” These values “must be recovered and affirmed with clarity now more than ever” in response to the threats of “savage capitalism, relativism and the spread of Islamic extremism,” Allam said.
He also warned of a growing tendency “in some countries of Europe to recognize ‘sharia’ as an integral part of the rule of law, as is occurring already in England, where decisions by private Muslim courts regarding polygamy are indirectly beginning to be legitimized.”
However, he stressed that his party would “not be anti-Islamic,” which is demonstrated by the fact that “a female Muslim is among its founders.”