Silvia Romano, new threats on social networks. Islamic Center President: "Ready to welcome you"

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The launch of the investigation by the Milan prosecutor for aggravated threats did not stop the campaign of hatred against Silvia Romano. According to reports from investigative sources, the cooperative kidnapped in Kenya in November 2018, and released last Saturday after 18 months of captivity, is still under attack by the web haters who, despite the initiative of the Milanese judiciary, have continued to post on main social networks messages with insults and death threats related, especially to his choice to convert to the Islamic religion. It was the same 24 year old who sent some screenshots of the latest messages received to the Carabinieri del Ros who conducted the investigations coordinated by the prosecutor Alberto Nobili, head of the counter-terrorism department of the Milan prosecutor's office.

Islamic Center President: "She is welcome, ready to welcome her to the mosque"
"If Silvia wants to come to the mosque she is free to do so, the mosque is open to everyone, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Silvia would be welcome, like everyone. Muslim I say 'welcome'. " He does not use turns of words, Ali Abu Shwaima. The president of the Islamic Center of Milan and Lombardy, contacted by the Adnkronos, says he is ready to welcome Silvia Romano, should the co-worker decide to go to the mosque.

No rules to follow or guidelines for those who, like Silvia, have decided to embrace the Muslim religion. "There are books - explains Ali Abu Shwaima - there is the Koran, now also available online, and it is translated into Italian. You can study alone or come to the mosque if you have things to clarify or deepen". There, he explains, "we also receive many Christians who want to know something about Islam, the mosque is open to everyone. Those who are convinced choose Islam as a religion, there are also those who follow Hinduism or other religions, we are in a society and in a democratic country that gives freedom of thought and faith to everyone ".

Silvia Romano's choice to convert to Islam, underlines "it is a personal choice, we cannot say anything, it is his choice". And on the fuss of controversy raised in the past few days, he notes: "the problem lies with those who make controversy. We cannot enter into a person's choices. We are in a democratic country, where everyone chooses the religion he considers most suitable for himself". Then, commenting on the insults on social media, he explains: "I think that now the judiciary will clarify. We have confidence in the judges who will deepen these acts".

When she learned that Silvia had been released "I reacted like any Italian - says Ali Abu Shwaima - I was happy that a fellow citizen had been freed after a year and a half imprisonment". And to those who argue that the young Milanese woman may have been forced to convert, Ali Abu Shwaima replies: "In Islam and also in the Koran it is said that there is no obligation" to convert. "Muslims - he points out - are a billion and a half, one more or one less does not change anything ''.

Card. Filoni: respect for her and her choice
"We must respect her, she has been in a difficult, unimaginable situation. We must let her find peace, that she will make up time to reflect on life. I repeat: respect for her and for her choice". Thus Cardinal Fernando Filoni, on the sidelines of a press conference for the presentation of extraordinary projects in the Holy Land, in difficulty due to the blockage of pilgrimages. Filoni, today Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, was Prefect of Propaganda Fide and before that apostolic Nuncio in several States, including in Iraq at the time of the war. "Religious freedom is one of the first human rights, for me it is the first, and it must be respected. It is not a question of tolerance, of concession, it is a right to be respected everywhere", underlines the cardinal.

Silvia Romano on Facebook: "The worst is over, don't get angry to defend me" 
"I ask you not to get angry to defend me, the worst is over, let's enjoy this moment together" writes Silvia Romano on Facebook. "I am happy - reads - because I found my loved ones still standing, thank God, despite their great pain. Because I found you, all of you, ready to embrace me. I have always followed the heart and that will never betray ". 

"I couldn't wait to get off that plane, because it only mattered for me to embrace the most important people in my life, feel their warmth and tell them how much I loved them, despite my dress". 

In the post, the young woman wanted to say "thank you, thank you, thank you" to "all the friends who have been close to my heart in this long time". And he also thanked "who was not a friend, but an acquaintance or a stranger and dedicated a thought to me. To all those who supported my parents and sister in such a special and unexpected way: find out how much affection you have shown them for it has been and is only a cause for joy, they have also been strong thanks to you and I am immensely grateful for this ". 

Shebab: never released interviews to the Republic
Somali Shebab jihadists denied today that their spokesman, Ali Dhere, gave an interview to La Repubblica on the kidnapping of Silvia Romano, branded as "fake news". "There was no spokesman interview with no media on the Roman case, "the organization told the Somali Memo site, one of the communication channels used by the Shebabs. In the interview published two days ago by Repubblica, Dhere confirmed the payment of the ransom for the release of the Italian cooperator, stating that the money will be spent to finance the jihad.

Don Ciotti: offenses against Silvia demonstrate sick country
"The insults and offenses against Silvia demonstrate how sick our country is still. The virus, in this case, is called" scapegoat ". It is the need to build a symbolic enemy - now called "traitor", now "reprobate", now "impure" - against which an unkind community unloads its hatred and anger, and thus hides from others and itself the distortions within it, its own injustice and its own lack of humanity. The scapegoat serves to give illusory compactness to disrupted communities ". This was written by Don Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera and of the Abele Group.

"Silvia is a young woman who went to Africa to work in an orphanage and who experienced the terrible trauma of a kidnapping. Released after a year and a half, she said she changed her name and converted to Islam during imprisonment. A community worthy of the name should give it time to develop its experience, understand how the terrible experience of imprisonment has affected its interior. These are events that cannot be looked at from outside with a cold, judgmental or, worse, eye. cynical. A true community knows how to put itself in the shoes of others, even more so if others suffer or have suffered. Empathy is the glue of civilization. Without empathy we fall into barbarism. As for the conversion to Islam, not all Muslims are fundamentalists as well as not all Catholics are reactionaries. Authentic faith calls into conscience and responsibility. It is a strenuous search for truth, not an imposition of certainties. disguised as truth, I am sure that Silvia will arrive in time to understand how authentic there is in her conversion and what is dictated by the terrible contingencies she experienced. In the meantime, we must leave her alone and rejoice with her and for her of being alive ", concludes Don Luigi Ciotti.