Italian MP Likens Minister to ‘Orangutan’
Lega Nord is a Secessionist party from Northern Italy that’s allied with the Eurofascist far right, and also a political party that Pam Geller and others in the “counter-jihad” alliance have defended in the past. (most famously in 2007 and 2008 because the party supported the original counter jihad conference and the anti-mosque movement.) Here we see that they don’t just hate Muslims, they also hate blacks. (Cecile Kyenge is Catholic.)
A senator from Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League on Sunday came under fire for saying Cecile Kyenge, the country’s first black minister, resembles an orangutan.
Prime Minister Enrico Letta said the remark by Senator Roberto Calderoli on Saturday was “unacceptable”.
“I love animals… but when I see pictures of Kyenge, I cannot help thinking of similarities with an orangutan,” he was quoted as saying at a party meeting in the northern city of Treviglio.
The remark went viral in social media, sparking widespread denunciation.
Letta said in a statement on Sunday: “The words reported today in the press attributed to Senator Calderoli regarding Cecile Kyenge are unacceptable and go beyond all limits.
Khalid Chaouki and Gianni Cuperlo, two lawmakers from the centre-left Democratic Party, demanded the resignation of Calderoni, who is deputy speaker of the Senate.
“The remarks addressed to Minister Kyenge are not worthy of a man who represents our institutions,” Cuperlo said.