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"Veil teacher was obeying a FATWA"
Times Online ^ | 10/30/06

Posted on 10/30/2006 8:18:17 AM PST by areafiftyone

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"Headscarf controversy in Tunisia heats up"
Magharebia ^ | 10/27/06 | Jamel Arfaoui

Posted on 10/30/2006 6:25:26 AM PST by Valin

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"Italy’s rebel woman MP fears fatwa"
The Sunday Times ^ | October 29, 2006 | John Follain

Posted on 10/29/2006 1:08:09 AM PDT by MadIvan

ARTICLE SNIPPT: "THE Italian feminist politician Daniela Santanche has been given 24-hour police protection after her strident views on the Muslim veil drew an apparent death sentence from an imam.

On a television chat show, Santanche, 45, an MP for the right-wing National Alliance party, clashed with Ali Abu Shwaima, the imam of a mosque near Milan.

“The veil isn’t a religious symbol and it isn’t prescribed by the Koran,” she said. “And in our country there is a law which forbids – for reasons of terrorism – people going around with masks on.”

Shwaima, an Italian national, retorted: “The veil is an obligation required by God. Those who do not believe that are not Muslims.

“You’re an ignoramus, you’re false. You sow hatred, you’re an infidel.”

The interior ministry, interpreting Shwaima’s insults as the equivalent of a fatwa — a religious edict calling for her murder — swiftly gave Santanche an armed bodyguard."