Wearing Mohammed T-shirt Italian minister Roberto Calderoli stirs hornets nest
20 Feb '06
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Lega Nord faces Brussels backlash over Mohammed T-shirt
An Italian minister could see his party expelled from its political group in the European Parliament after he wore a T-shirt depicting one of the Danish Muslim cartoons.
The T-shirt, worn by the Italian reform minister and member of the Lega Nord, carries a print of the now infamous drawing of Islam's prophet Mohammed with a turban shaped like a bomb – one of the cartoons that is causing uproar among muslims worldwide.