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Executive Director Andrea Lafferty and Founder Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
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Italian Author To Face Charges Of Defaming Islam
June 2, 2005 – Writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci has been ordered to stand trial in Italy on charges that she defamed Islam in her writings.
The decision has delighted Muslims in Italy who claimed that her 2004 work, “La Forza della Ragione” (The Force of Reason) exposed Muslims to religious hatred in that country.
Fallaci wrote that Islamic extremists had killed more than 6,000 people during the past 20 years in the name of the Koran and said the Islamic faith “sows hatred in the place of love and slavery in the place of freedom.”
Adel Smith, a Muslim activist is encouraged by the decision: “It is the first time a judge has ordered a trial for defamation of the Islamic faith. But this isn’t just about defamation. We would also like [the court] to recognize that this is an incitement to religious hatred.”
Justice Minister Roberto Castelli said the judge’s ruling is an attack on freedom of expression. “In Europe we are seeing the birth of a movement that is looking to silence those who don’t follow a single mindset, within which it is forbidden to speak ill of Islam, of homosexuals or of the children of homosexuals,” said Castelli.
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