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2026/46 | Background | Why Italian neo-fascists are converting to Shiite Islam In Italy, a right-wing extremist scene has developed with over 1,000 converts to Shiite Islam, i.e
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Right-wing cultural official: At the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, its director Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and actress Laura Dern honored actor George Clooney
Right-wing cultural official: At the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, its director Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and actress Laura Dern honored actor George Clooney
The 61st Biennale is currently taking place in Venice until November 22nd - one of the most important art exhibitions in the world. This year, for the first time, it was under the leadership of the cultural journalist Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, who was appointed in 2023 by the right-wing extremist government of Giorgia Meloni. Buttafuoco caused a scandal with his decision to allow Russia to take part in the Biennale with its own country pavilion for the first time since the start of its war against Ukraine. He justified himself by referring to artistic autonomy; it had nothing to do with politics.
But Buttafuoco has not only been an important cultural official in Italy for many years, but also a colorful intellectual. He originally comes from the neo-fascist party Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), whose board he was a member of and whose youth organization Fronte della Gioventù (Youth Front) he temporarily led in the 1980s. After a long career in far-right and right-wing newspapers, he wrote in the 1900s for the left-wing populist daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, which is close to the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) party, and announced his conversion to Shiite Islam in 2015.
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