Posted on 05/24/2005 6:59:33 AM PDT by thierrya
FALLACI TO GO ON TRIAL FOR DEFAMING ISLAM
(AGI) - L'Aquila, Italy, May 24 -
In Oriana Fallaci's book "The Force of Reason" there are expressions that are "unequivocally offensive to Islam and Muslims," said the Bergamo preliminary investigative judge, Armando Grasso, who accepting the Adel Smith's opposition to filing away the trial proposed by the prosecutor, ordered the prosecution to formulate the charge "according to article 406 of article 403 of the criminal code," for defamation of Islam.
The well known author, therefore, will be put on trial.
Adel Smith, president of the Italian Muslim Union, sued the writer on April 8, 2004, after "also in other writings Oriana Fallaci had propagated hate against Islam and Muslims, distorting real historical facts and inventing others, lying, offending, and defaming Muslims around the world.
For the rest, ever since "Anger and Pride" the writer has injured Islam and Muslims, writing expressions such as 'fucking sons of Allah'," said Smith.
The Bergamo Prosecution is taking on the trial, since the book was published in the city, and now has ten days to come up with a charge. The preliminary hearing judge will set the trial date. Matteo Nicoli of Verona will represent Adel Smith. .
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Orianna Fallaci is one of the greatest voices of the West. I doubt she cares about the outcome of this case. She'll just go on writing and publishing as she sees fit.
"How is possible to defame Islam any more?"
Our esteemed shepard, GWB, defames Islam neary every day by calling Islam a religion of peace.
How ironic. Those who scream loudest about the horrors of the inquisition are bound and determined to recreate it.
Bush doesn't say that "nearly every day", and it's not like he can publicly say that over 1 billion people follow the murdering religion of morons.
No, If I know Fallaci she'll tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine, except in much clearer language.
Anyone raised in the conditions she was who could maintain her sense of direction while interviewing Von Braun should be a national hero.
"Bush doesn't say that "nearly every day", and it's not like he can publicly say that over 1 billion people follow the murdering religion of morons."
Virtually every time there is a newsreel of Bush, the lie that Islam is a religion of peace gushes from his lips. Perhaps the media is replaying the spot. But the point is that you can't fight an enemy unless you identify the enemy.
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Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa.
Do you know if Fallaci is still living in New York?
She has an apartment in NYC. I will assume she is in Italy now.
Any ideas as to what will happen to her if she is found guilty?
Fallaci can come live with my family in Georgia, USA, to get out of Italy, if she wants. Never should a free state government put a writer on trial for their literary work. Never mind that I agree with her on Islam or that I too am a writer ... in contrast, when Ward Chruchill is promoted for his hate words, Fallaci should be lionized for her words. Political correctness is a global phenomenon eating away at the freedom of individuals in the specious name of preventing 'hate speech'.
How can she defame an "infamo"?
I thought she was terminally ill with cancer.
She does or did have cancer. I had not heard that she was terminal.
She's been battling cancer for a long time now.
ROME (AP) - Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist known for ruthlessly grilling her subjects, says she detests interviews but has granted one herself - to herself - because she is dying of cancer.
The Milan daily Corriere della Sera published the slim volume, "Oriana Fallaci Interviews Oriana Fallaci," as a supplement to its newspaper Friday.
In the work, Fallaci, 74, asks herself why she agreed to the interview.
"Because death is on my back. Medicine has issued the sentence: 'Lady, you cannot get better. You won't get better,'" is the reply.
Fallaci's battle with cancer began some 11 years ago.
She writes that she stopped taking care of herself, including having medical tests and seeing oncologists, on Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terror attacks against the United States. [She was living in her apartment in NYC at that time.]
Fallaci said she needed to spend all her time writing and translating two books that have since been published and which, in her typically blunt style, reflect scathingly on society, including the differences between Christian and Islamic culture.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186500/posts
If you haven't ever read Rage and Pride, go here:
http://www.borg.com/%7Epaperina/fallaci/fallaci_1.html
"I was at home, my home in the center of Manhattan, and at nine o'clock on the dot, I had a sensation of a danger that perhaps would not touch me, but certainly concerned me. The sensation that one feels in war, as a matter of fact in combat, when with every pores of your skin you feel the incoming bullet or rocket, and your ears perk up and you scream to those next to you: "Down! Get down!". I pushed the sensation aside. I was not in Vietnam, I was not in one of the innumerable fucking wars that since WWII have violated my life! I was in New York, by gosh, on a marvelous September morning, in the year 2001. However, the sensation continued to assail me, inexplicably, and I did something I never do in the morning, I turned on my TV. The audio was not working. The video yes. On every channel, and I have almost 100 channels, it was the same scene, you saw a tower in the World Trade Center that was burning like a gigantic match. A short circuit? A lost small plane? Or else a premeditated act of terrorism? Almost paralyzed, I stared and while I stared, I posed those questions, while on the screen appeared a plane. White and big, an airliner. It was flying very low. Flying low it was going towards the second tower like a bomber aiming at it's objective, and throwing himself on it. I understood. I understood also because in that instant, the audio returned and transmitted a chorus of savage screams. Repeated, savage, "God! Oh, God! Oh, God, God, God, GOD!" And the plane buried itself in the second tower like a knife entering a butter cake."
Nuts. I was hoping she was still in this country.
Any ideas as to what will happen to her if she is found guilty?
No, but I am sure that she will have the last laugh (and at their expense).
What an outrage.
But the devil must get his due. I sense a compromise.
She will be found "guilty".....
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And fined 1 lire.
LOL!!! She's great.
Curtailing Oriana's freedom of speech in a attempt to cover up the pernicious crimes committed in the the name of Allah the magnificent, most powerful, most merciful, most omnipotent, supreme and wise, is a total travesty.
Just a few quotes from the Koran tell us that Oriana was right:
"Slay them wherever you find them...Idolatry is worse than carnage...Fight against them until idolatry is no more and God's religion reigns supreme." (Surah 2:190-)
"Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it." (Surah 2:216)
"The only true faith in God's sight is Islam." (Surah 3:19)
“"...make war on the leaders of unbelief...Make war on them: God will chastise them at your hands and humble them. He will grant you victory over them..." (Surah 9:12-) “
"Fight against such as those to whom the Scriptures were given [Jews and Christians]...until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued." (Surah 9:27-)
“"Muhammad is God's apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers but merciful to one another." (Surah 48:29)”
"If you do not fight, He will punish you sternly, and replace you by other men." (Surah 9:37-)
A follow up story here too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409841/posts
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