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To: Texas_Jarhead
This Adel Smith is something else.

I found an article Fresco Fiasco, that talks about his type of activity. Here's a snip from the article.

some Muslims in Italy are calling for the destruction of a medieval fresco in the Cathedral of Bologna on the grounds that it gives offence to Muslims.

6 posted on 01/06/2003 6:34:03 AM PST by csvset
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Islamic terrorists linked to al-Qaeda plotted to destroy Bologna's 14th-century cathedral because it contained a medieval fresco depicting the Prophet Mohammed in hell.

The plan was foiled by Italian paramilitary police, according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera. The terrorist group was identified after police intercepted telephone conversations between several Tunisians and Moroccans with links to a Libyan known as Amsa, considered one of Osama bin Laden's chief operatives in Europe.

The cathedral, in the city's central Piazza Maggiore, is dedicated to Bologna's patron saint, San Petronio. The 15th-century Mohammed fresco, in the Bolognini chapel, shows the Prophet being set upon by demons. Four years ago, the chapel was occupied by Islamic immigrants during Ramadan in protest against the fresco, before police intervened.

The reports said special branch officers with the paramilitary Carabinieri force first heard of the plan in February. The plotters were said to be linked to Algeria's radical Salafist "Group of Prayer and Combat". The newspaper said the organisation, headed by an Algerian, was a splinter group of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which had contacts with Muslims in Bologna, Milan, Rome and Naples.

When they overheard the conversations, the police were hunting for a presumed North African terrorist cell based in Milan, which was believed to have become active after September 11, and which was thought to have made contact with Muslims in Britain, Holland and Belgium.

7 posted on 01/06/2003 6:43:46 AM PST by per loin
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To: csvset
ISLAM IS A TOLERANT RELIGION - SEE....
10 posted on 01/06/2003 6:49:06 AM PST by stlrocket
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To: csvset
Yet apparently Europe keeps importing Muslims. Part of an insidious antisemitism.
11 posted on 01/06/2003 6:50:19 AM PST by Dante3
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To: csvset
Islam is a religion of pests(some lethal)!
15 posted on 01/06/2003 6:55:23 AM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: csvset
I have a copy of that Hell image on my hard drive somewhere.
27 posted on 01/06/2003 7:30:54 AM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: csvset
I have a better idea, how about the destruction of muslins in italy because christians find islam repugnant.
59 posted on 01/06/2003 12:14:49 PM PST by ffusco
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