Six stories from Italian Islam. As in the rest of the country, in Bologna, intolerance and attempts at dialogue coexist, | dG1fSkVRNjBpeUVXZ00
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00:30Excuse me, are you the imam?
00:37No, we are not imams, we are like you.
00:41What does imam mean?
00:43He is the imam of Bologna, we have never seen him.
00:47Excuse me, what do you do in the mosque?
00:50In the mosque?
00:51Yes.
00:52But the faith is something...
00:53No, tell me, I asked you a question.
00:55What do you do in the mosque?
00:57Are you nervous?
00:58No, I am calm.
01:14On the road, every day, when you get on the bus,
01:16you feel like you have to shave,
01:18it's an Arab face,
01:20you feel the tension
01:22and you start to think that everyone is looking at you
01:25with one look rather than another
01:27and they are afraid that you are a potential attacker.
01:31I don't want to be perceived as a different person,
01:35because my land is Italy,
01:38my reference point when I am in a third country is Italy,
01:43is Bologna.
01:57Bologna, Italy
02:18At first, I didn't want to work here,
02:21because I didn't like the situation in Bologna,
02:24I didn't know what to do.
02:26It's a well-known fact,
02:28maybe in all of Italy,
02:29but not only in Bologna.
02:31When I arrived, I didn't know what to do,
02:33I had to go to the newspaper,
02:35there were a lot of problems.