” “The 28th European week organised by Fondazione ambrosiana Paolo VI and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore about the "Religious history of Islam in the Balkans" opened this morning in Gazzada (Varese). It is an "extremely relevant topic", reads the message sent to the about 100 participants by the archbishop of Milan, card. Dionigi Tettamanzi: "There is an instant connection with the problems about this subject that worry people every day through the media, feeding anxieties and fears that are not always groundless". Starting from the historical information on a specific geographical area is explains the cardinal an "important contribution to face the complexity of the problems", "helps understand the more general problems of the relationship with Islam and offers an opportunity to try to understand the current predicament and maybe come up with some future scenarios". "Giving space to historical and theoretical explorations is the main task of a cultural body", explains to SIR the secretary of the Foundation, Luciano Vaccaro. "For instance, one cannot understand the conflict that burst out in the Balkans in the Nineties or ethnic cleansing if one does not know about the roots of diversity". (to be continued)” “
