An Italian politician will be given police protection following comments she made about the Islamic veil on television.
The MP, Daniela Santanche, from the right wing National Alliance, said the veil was not required by the Koran. [Which it's not - RG]

She was labelled an infidel by an imam appearing on the same programme and there are now fears for her safety.

How much longer are we going to allow for this bullshit? How much longer are we going to let these backwards cave-dwelling assholes run our lives and dictate who has rights and who does not? This is absolutely unacceptable in Western society, and should literally be stamped out.

And yet they wonder why we paint them all as violent. Perhaps if angry comments from imams were routinely ignored and the followers of the Religion of Peace weren't known for shitting themselves and losing complete control of their faculties, then we wouldn't think they were all mad. But the sad truth is - the bulk of them are. Mad. Completely 6th century mad.

On Friday she appeared on a chat show on Sky Italia for a heated debate which quickly spiralled out of control.

"A veil," she said, "is never a symbol of liberty and it is not required in religion".

"And in our country," she went on, "there is a law which forbids - for reason of terrorism - people to go around with masks on".

Her comments brought a furious response from the imam who appeared alongside her.

Ali Abu Shwaima, from a mosque near Milan, called her an infidel.

I wonder what kind of reception I would get if I walked into my local bank wearing a mask. Or my office. Or perhaps the airport...