Islamist Death, Political Death

"Intervention is now urgent because what has happened is extremely worrying. The Renzi government is bringing in Islamist fundamentalists and using Italian ships as taxis for potential jihadists."
Maurizio Gasparri, Italian senator, Forza Italia party

"The government is not only bringing to its knees the social fabric of our cities [through immigration], but is allowing onto Italian soil fundamentalist terrorists."
Ignazio La Russa, Italian centre-Right politician

"We don't have months and months. The double risk of an advance of the Islamic State group in Libya and the waves of migrants means we are in a race against the clock."
Paolo Gentiloni, Italian foreign minister

Migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea between North Africa and Sicily who are being rescued by the Italian Navy  Photo: Italian Navy/dpa/Alamy

When a group of Egyptian Copt workers in Libya were slaughtered by Islamic State terrorists in a mass beheading atrocity, their leader warned, gesturing toward the Italian coast, that Islamist jihadists were preparing to take the same route as desperate refugees fleeing the carnage being inflicted throughout Africa and the Middle East by sectarian conflicts and Islamist mass murder in the name of the religion of peace, to invade and conquer "Rome".

This week it was reported that nine or a dozen Christian refugees aboard a boat shared by fleeing Muslims, were drowned in the Mediterranean. It wasn't that this boat capsized this time around -- although hundreds upon hundreds of fleeing refugees have drowned when their unshipworthy vessels have capsized -- but a deliberate criminal act by Muslims aboard to toss the Christians into the sea to drown.

The deaths are being investigated by Italian police on evidence that emerged from another hundred Muslim asylum seekers on board that vessel once it was rescued and taken to Palermo, Sicily. Fifteen Muslim migrants from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali and Guinea Bissau were arrested by police, accused of throwing the Christians from Ghana and Nigeria into the sea after an argument.

The legal charge is responsibility for "multiple murders aggravated by religious hatred", according to a police statement. The Muslims responsible had been identified by other refugees, themselves in anguish over the deaths of the Christians. The atrocity has given new fodder to Italian conservatives who are accusing the government of permitting "fundamentalists" into Italy.

Four survivors of another incident where a small boat sank in the Mediterranean described to Italian rescuers how their inflatable dinghy had sunk soon after leaving the cost of Libya with 45 people aboard. Just days earlier 400 people were reported drowned in another shipwreck north of the coast of Libya. The most recent results of freeing Libyans from the tyrannical clutches of their former dictator Moammar Ghadaffi.

The breakdown of law and order in much of Libya has had far-reaching consequences. Not only are Libyans fleeing the conflicts between competing 'governments' and their militias, but there is now no restraint on the passage of migrants from other points in Africa, and from the Middle East from paying smuggling gangs of jackals to place them on old ships in the hopes of reaching Europe, and haven from the fear and death consuming the geography

Humanitarian agencies now warn that up to a half-million migrants may attempt the Mediterranean crossing into Italy this year, well beyond the previous number of 170,000 who managed to reach Italy in 2014. The 28 nations of the EU argue about how they should share the migration burden, with Italy, Greece and Malta bearing the brunt of the massive and ongoing influx.

The world's largest, most desperate refugee situation, burgeoning and harrowing to the refugees and their would-be rescuers, caused by a collapse in security and order, courtesy of the faithful of Islam, that incomparable religion of peace.