22 Facts About Magdi Allam

Magdi Allam served as a regional councillor in the Italian region of Basilicata after being elected in 2010, and was a Member of the European Parliament for Italy from 2009 to 2014.

Magdi Allam has lived under police protection for many years due to death threats from Muslims.

Magdi Allam was born in Egypt and raised by Muslim parents.

Magdi Allam describes growing up in a vibrant and multicultural Cairo.

Magdi Allam graduated from La Sapienza with a degree in sociology and in 1986 became an Italian citizen.

Magdi Allam began his journalistic career at the communist newspaper Il Manifesto.

Magdi Allam is probably however going a bit far when he says that the "root of evil is an inherent part of Islam, which is physiologically violent".

We shouldn't however play down the courage that Magdi Allam has shown by daring to say such things that way and we have to recognise his right to convert to Christianity.

Magdi Allam founded a personal movement called "Io Amo L'Italia".

Magdi Allam firmly believes in an immigration based on "Non solo diritti, ma anche doveri", reciprocal respect for a better society of social enrichment.

Magdi Allam made the pilgrimage to Mecca, with his deeply religious mother in 1991.

Magdi Allam accused Italy and the West of ignoring the dangers of an imminent "Islamization" of the society, and a possible Jihad in Europe.

Magdi Allam was announced as a speaker at a conference of Stop Islamization of Nations in New York City the same year.

In 2005, Magdi Allam published an article calling for a ban on building mosques in Italy.

However, since 2002, Magdi Allam has voiced support of Israel, together with a strong condemnation of Palestinian terrorism.

Magdi Allam pokes fun at the fact that the only cited reference for the entire second chapter is an article from popular Italian tabloid Gente, titled "I slept with Saddam for thirty years":.

Magdi Allam is the author of essays of relevant scientific value, no doubt.

Magdi Allam has many enthusiastic supporters among his newly found readership, and politically in the anti-immigration party he once detested - the Lega Nord, and among the Catholic side of leading Italian party Forza Italia and its electorate: indeed his Godfather was Maurizio Lupi, an elected representative of Forza Italia with well-known connections in the Vatican establishment.

Vittorio Zucconi, deputy director of La Repubblica, the newspaper for which Magdi Allam had worked for more than 20 years, humorously compared his new pose of "defender of the West" to American actress Doris Day.

Magdi Allam is married to scholar Valentina Colombo, and they have a son together.

In 2006, Magdi Allam was a co-winner, with three other journalists, of the $1 million Dan David Prize, named for an Israeli entrepreneur.

On 4 May 2007 Magdi Allam was presented with the American Jewish Committee's Mass Media Award at its 101st Annual Meeting.