Three men suspected of bombing the home of publisher Martin Rynja on Saturday remain in custody in London today.
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Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti will not face charges over alleged insults of Pope Benedict XVI. At a political rally in July, Guzzanti had joked that the Pope would go to Hell when he died, where he would be harassed by ‘poofter devils’.
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Seeking offence, as Christians have done in the case of Terence Koh’s Jesus statue, is the tactic of the vindictive and the bullying, writes Padraig Reidy
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Dutch MP Geert Wilders has posted his controversial film Fitna on the Internet. The film, a polemic against the ‘Islamicisation’ of Europe made up of clips of bombings and speeches from imams and politicians, has been the subject of huge controversy in the Netherlands, where the government has been at pains to distance itself from Wilders’s stance.
(Warning: the film contains graphic violent footage).