Libya thinks it can dictate to Berlusconi

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/05/go-silvio.html


Tuesday, May 06, 2008

GO SILVIO!

heh
Libya thinks it can dictate to Berlusconi who he can or cannot appoint? Outta control, I tell ya.

Incoming Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing a row with the Muslim world over plans to appoint a member of the far-right to his cabinet, press reports said.

ITALY REJECT LIBYAN INTERFERENCE IN CABINET DECISIONS Crosswalk

The son of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi warned Italy on Friday that the nomination of MP Roberto Calderoli to a ministerial post would have "disastrous consequences" for Rome-Tripoli ties.

Calderoli, 52, was a minister in the previous center-right government of Silvio Berlusconi when he sparked deadly riots in the former Italian colony after appearing on television wearing a T-shirt bearing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
The Italian consulate in Libya was set on fire, 11 people were killed and another 69 injured in riots.

Calderoli also threatened to defile the proposed site of a mosque in Padua by walking a pig over the ground
Silvio Berlusconi has yet to take office after being re-elected Italian prime minister, but already the conservative politician faces the possibility of new tensions with some in the Muslim world.
A prominent organization in Libya headed by Muammar Gadaffi's son has called for the incoming government in Rome not to appoint as a minister a politician whose views on Islam have angered Muslims in the past.

Angered Muslims ....... we can't have that.

Roberto Calderoli served as reforms minister in Berlusconi's last government, but he resigned under pressure in February 2006 after deadly riots at an Italian consulate in Libya's second city, Benghazi.

Libyans who attacked the mission were angry because Calderoli had during a television program displayed a T-shirt depicting one of 12 cartoons satirizing Mohammed, the Muslim prophet, that were at the time at the center of an international furor.
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