Italy
Roberto Calderoli, 52, a senior member of the Northern League appeared on television wearing a T-shirt printed with one of Danish cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed. Mr Calderoli has also threatened to defile the proposed site of a mosque in Padua by walking a pig over the ground.
Roberto Calderoli of the anti-immigrant Northern League party said Thursday, September 13, 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 also said he would eat “a nice plateful of pork chops to show my lack of sympathy for those who consider pork forbidden meat.”
Calderoli is no stranger to controversy over Islam and is often accused of making racist comments. When Italy beat France in the 2006 World Cup, he said France had “sacrificed its identity by fielding niggers, Muslims and communists”.
