■ Italy
Politician gets protection
An deputy is to be put under police protection after a fundamentalist imam shouted at her during a televised debate on the Islamic veil, the Ansa agency reported on Sunday. Daniela Santanche, the right wing National Alliance's deputy in Lom-bardy, will "very soon" benefit from police protection provided by Milan's chief of police. The lawmaker said that the veil was not required by the Koran and was strongly contradicted by Ali Abu Shwaima, imam of the Segrate Mosque near Milan, in a live broadcast on Friday evening on the private television channel Sky. "It is not true. I will not allow the ignorant to talk about Islam," the imam said, calling Santanche "an infidel."
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