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Complaint filed against Oriana Fallaci for insulting Islam
From Iran's official news agencyRenowned Italian reporter and writer Oriana Fallaci is summoned to attend a court hearing on upcoming Monday in Bergamo, a city in north of Italy, for having made discriminatory and insulting comments against Islam publicly. According to Italy's official news agency, ANSA, Fallaci has in her book "Power of Wisdom" insulted Islam openly in at least eighteen sentences. Head of Italian Muslims Union Adel Smith who has filed the complaint against Fallaci has with his move created the background for controversial debate among supporters and opponents of Fallaci's racist ideas at Italy's political, judiciary, and journalist circles. The Prosecutor General of Bergamo, Maria Christiania Rota, had for instance initially asked for filing Smith's complaint among the judiciary system's rejected files, but the city's Judge Armando Grasso has not yielded to her request based on articles of the Italian Constitution, and summoned Fallaci to court. Adel Smith's previous move was launching a campaign against putting up crosses at public schools in Italy. Fallaci has been adopting a strong anti-Islamic stand during the course of the past few decades, and had openly declared recently that if she would see the minaret of the newly constructed mosque in her neighborhood is completed she would blow it up relying on assistance of her friends. Posted by: ryuge 2006-06-10 |
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