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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (9998)	9/13/2007 9:09:59 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

How do you say cajones in Italian? Muslims irked by Italian senator's "pig" comments Yahoo News ^ \| September 13 2007 \| Silvia Aloisi uk.news.yahoo.com ROME (Reuters) - A far-right Italian senator outraged Muslims on Thursday by calling for a "Pig Day" protest against the planned construction of a mosque in northern Italy. Roberto Calderoli of the anti-immigrant Northern League party said he was ready to bring his own pig to "defile" the site where the mosque is due to be built in the northern city of Bologna. "I am making myself and my pig available for a walk at the site where they want to build the mosque," Calderoli, who is a deputy speaker of Italy's Senate, said in a statement. Calderoli also said he would eat "a nice plateful of pork chops to show my lack of sympathy for those who consider pork forbidden meat." Muslims do not eat pork and consider pigs and their meat too filthy to touch. "Those words are highly offensive and indecent, especially as they are coming from an Italian lawmaker," Mario Scialoja, a prominent leader of Italy's Muslim community, told Reuters. "It left me speechless". Tensions flare regularly between communities in predominantly Catholic Italy over the site of new mosques to serve a growing Muslim population. On Wednesday night, around 20 people staged a protest near the port city of Genoa over the planned construction of a mosque which they said would be offensive because it is near a church. The protesters, including a priest suspended from the church, prayed the rosary -- which consists of the "Our Father", "Hail Mary" and "Glory Be" prayers read repeatedly -- despite a call by the country's most senior Roman Catholic bishop not to do so. In December 2006, protesters left a severed pig's head outside a mosque being built in Tuscany. In July, police arrested an imam on suspicion of leading a terrorism "training school" in a mosque in central Italy. After that arrest, the Northern League called for all existing mosques -- most in old garages or converted factories and warehouses -- to be closed for security checks. Calderoli is no stranger to controversy over Islam and is often accused of making racist comments. Last year, he lost a ministerial post in a centre-right government led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for wearing a T-shirt with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad offensive to Muslims.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (9998)	9/14/2007 5:19:54 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

New bomb alarm in Turkish capital www.ntvmsnbc.com ^ \| 14 Eylül 2007 Cuma ntvmsnbc.com ANKARA - The Turkish capital has had another bomb scare, only days after a massive car bomb was found in the centre of the city. Haberin devami Late Thursday, security authorities announced they had intercepted a van carrying up to 500 kilograms of explosives on the road to Ankara. The van, which was registered in Germany, had crossed into Turkey via the Kapikule border gate with Bulgaria. Bulgarian customs officials had tipped off Turkish security that the van appeared to be suspicious, and it was later stopped before it reached its destination. Reports say that four persons, including two Turkish nationals, were detained by security forces. It is believed that the van had travelled from Sweden. On Tuesday, a 300 kilogram bomb was found inside a minibus parked in a multi storey car park in the centre of Ankara. The bomb was defused by police before it could be detonated. To date, no arrests have been made but police have said they are seeking a male with an Arab accent.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (9998)	9/16/2007 10:33:39 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Qaeda urges cartoonist death, threatens Swedish firms ca.today.reuters.com ^ DUBAI (Reuters) - The head of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq has offered a $100,000 reward for the killing of a Swedish cartoonist for his drawing of Islam's Prophet Mohammad and threatened to attack major Swedish companies. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, also offered $50,000 in an audiotape posted on an Islamist Web site on Saturday to anyone who killed the editor of the newspaper that published the drawing by Lars Vilks. Sweden's daily Nerikes Allehanda published the drawing, part of a series which art galleries in Sweden had declined to display, last month. "From now on we announce the call to shed the blood of the Lars who dared to insult our Prophet... and during this munificent month we announce an award worth $100,000 to the person who kills this infidel criminal," he said in the 31-minute tape. "The award will be increased to $150,000 if he were to be slaughtered like a lamb. "We know how to force them to withdraw and apologies, and if they don't, they can wait for our strikes on their economy and giant companies such as Ericsson, Volvo, Ikea...." Contacted by Reuters, Edvard Unsgaard, spokesman for Sweden's prime minister, declined to comment on what he said was "police business." The newspaper published the image, depicting the head of the Prophet on the body of a dog, in what it called a defense of free speech. Muslim countries including Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan expressed anger over the caricature. Iran, the first country to protest against the publication of the drawing on August 27, summoned Sweden's charge d'affaires in Tehran to complain. Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden and also consider dogs to be impure. The Swedish Muslim Council, one of Sweden's largest Muslim organizations, rejected Baghdadi's threats. "The Swedish Muslim Council definitely repudiates and at the same time condemns threats against individuals or Swedish institutions. We accept neither crimes nor ethical violations of everyone's right to live in security and to respectful treatment," it said in a statement. Last year, Muslims around the world launched a firestorm of protest after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that were reprinted by other European newspapers.