The following video features Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), an anti-immigration party in Italy. Ms. Meloni and the Brothers recently staged a demonstration to protest an illegal mosque in Rome. A young couple was recently assaulted in front of the mosque for engaging in a public display of affection.

From the background on the video:

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Here’s a report on the flash demo from Corriere della Sera (in Italian).

Video transcript:

00:02 So, I will explain to you what is happening. We are doing a symbolic demonstration.

00:07 Right now they are kissing each other and embracing each other,

00:10 because we have come to denounce what happened here yesterday

00:13 in front of an illegal mosque, in front of which two young people were assaulted

00:19 because while passing [Unintelligible] they embraced and kissed,

00:24 and they were attacked and manhandled because someone here

00:28 from the illegal mosque maintained that there could be no

00:31 embracing and kissing, because this was a lack of respect for the illegal mosque.

00:34 So we have come to say that the illegal mosques should be closed,

00:38 and that sharia will never rule here, because we are a secular state here,

00:42 where people are also free to kiss and embrace each other in public.

00:47 And therefore we have come to ask for respect for our culture,

00:51 respect for our traditions, and if ever,

00:54 we say zero tolerance for those who don’t respect our rules.

00:57 Obviously, you would have done the same thing if the mosque had not been an illegal mosque;

01:02 you have maintained that it is illegal. —Of course, of course — but it’s the same.

01:07 A specific case, a specific case. —Moreover, it’s illegal. A specific case —

01:11 We will also continue to ask them to close an illegal mosque, like so many others in Rome.

01:15 This is a mosque that Fratelli d’Italia has for years fought to close,

01:19 and nothing happens. Moreover, besides an illegal mosque, we have people who

01:23 are allowed to manhandle our children because they are permitted to hold hands

01:27 while they walk. It seems to me that we are, let us say, exaggerating a lot.

01:31 There is a real problem with the progress of the Islamization of Europe,

01:35 which we want to combat because we are proud of the level of civilization that we have reached,

01:39 proud of the freedom of that civilization, already taught

01:42 and regulated, and we don’t want to go back.

01:45 Wait, wait, Meloni, I want to know from Maggazina,

01:48 if he would like to make a gesture of solidarity with Meloni.

01:52 by embracing Cantone, I don’t know, for example. Do you want to express yourself with an embrace?

01:56 [Unintelligible] a problem, but… —They are embracing, Meloni. They are embracing in the studio.

02:01 [Unintelligible]

02:07 Embrace (each other) I don’t know. Everybody embrace.

02:10 [Unintelligible] —Meloni, exactly. [Unintelligible] embrace

02:14 —Perfectly in agreement — Me too. I embrace everybody symbolically. An embrace to all of them.

02:20 To manhandle or to do something to the two who were hand in hand is wrong in that case,

02:26 as it was wrong in a previous (case) when two girls who came

02:30 to school holding hands were suspended.

02:33 That is, let’s distinguish from, how to say, the question of the other type,

02:37 it is wrong simply it is stupid, whether I do it at a school

02:41 or I do it at illegal (mosques) in a section of Rome.

02:45 Meloni?

02:48 Well, yes, in sum, two things. I don’t know [unintelligible] because the problems is that

02:52 Here, in the case of what happened here,

02:56 it happened because we know that by now a constant spread of fundamentalist theory

03:01 that is at the base of the openings of many cultural centers,

03:04 of many illegal mosques or not (illegal),

03:07 in my opinion need to be contested. We cannot deny that

03:10 Saudi Arabia, which is a fundamentalist nation,

03:14 in which the Wahhabist interpretation of the theory of Koran rules,

03:17 according to which there is the death penalty for homosexuality, the death penalty for apostasy,

03:21 adultery, zero rights for women, in that nation,

03:25 together with Qatar, which is no better, has financed the opening of these mosques.

03:29 And therefore, it is normal that if these theories are victorious and