Italian minister 'to wear Mohammed t-shirts'

An Italian cabinet minister from a right-wing party was today quoted as he planned to wear T-shirts bearing some of the prophet cartoons which have inflamed much of the Muslim world.

“I had some made for me and from today on I will wear some T-shirts with some of the cartoons contested by Islam,” Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli was quoted as saying in remarks to the Italian news agency ANSA.