70,000 Italians Converted to Islam

Publish Date: 09 May 2012 

According to the Union of Islamic communities in Italy (Ucoi) about 70,000 Italians converted to Islam, a real boom of conversions heightened by the crisis of values.

According to the Union of Islamic communities in Italy (Ucoi) about 70,000 Italians converted to Islam, a real boom of conversions heightened by the crisis of values but also by the economic crisis in Italy, as Elzir Izzedine commented during the Youtube programme KlausCondicio, by the anchorman Klaus Davi, who is carrying out a report on the Italians espousing Islam.

Ucoi made known a few data: 70,000 Italians converted to Islam and what strikes most is the high number of Italians contacting Mosques to study Islam.

"It is an absolutely positive fact”, Izzedine commented. "If you consider that there are already 150,000 Muslims with Italian citizenship and one million resident Muslims, you can understand that it is an unprecented boom”.