Via AKI:
Italy's interior minister brushed off the possibility of his government helping Milan's muslim community replace a mosque that was recently closed to keep the "public order."
"I'm an interior minister, not a mosque builder," Roberto Maroni (photo) told reporters on Sunday.
Following the recent closing of Milan's biggest mosque, Milan's archbishop Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi called for more tolerance from the city's municipal government toward the Muslim community.
"Milan's civic institutions must guarantee everybody the freedom of religion and the right to worship," Tettamanzi told Italian newspaper La Repubblica in an interview published on Saturday.
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