The Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Franco Frattini, has called for Muslims, Jews and Christians to unite to fight the “threat” that he claims atheism poses to society.
In an article for the daily newspaper of the Holy See, L’Osservatore Romano, Frattini wrote:

Christians will certainly have to become increasingly aware of the essential value of their presence in the Middle East, a widely recognized value. Christians also have to be aware of the need to seek with Muslims an understanding about how to oppose those aspects that threaten society just as much as extremism. I refer to atheism, materialism and relativism. Christians, Muslims and Jews can work together to achieve this common goal.

There it is, in black and white.

The minister for foreign affairs, delivering a speech in the VATICAN, no less calling for a jihad against atheism!

I believe that a new humanism is required to oppose these perverse phenomena, because only the centrality of the human person is an antidote that will defeat fanaticism and intolerance.

To refer to atheism, materialism, and relativism as pushing fanatacism is such an example of astoundingly blind hubris, and outright lying that the phrase “the pot calling the kettle black” is woefully inadequate to describe the almost criminal nature of the utterance.

But, take heart: When the theocrats get this blitheringly desperate, we must be doing something right to rattle their golden cage so much.
They rightly fear that their privileged lives of legal immunity & parasitism are ending.

This is why Italian foreign policy sees the promotion of religious freedom as a fundamental point, since this deals with a fundamental right of each human person. This is not a collective issue, but a question relating to the person.
The Italian government has done a lot. We have been busy in the European Union. I promoted a course of action that might lead to European support for religious freedom, promoting the rights of people who belong to religious minorities, thinking obviously of the Christian minority that suffers in many countries of the world. I believe that every state should be vigilant about this question in order to avoid intolerance.

Bolded are more bold assertions that are the absolute reverse of reality!

But, for the Foreign Minister of a Sovereign country to utter such outrageously biased lies deserves at least his immediate sacking.

I’m sure he could get a job with the Vatican, or the Discovery Institute.

A Templeton Prize is just around the corner, Franco!