Posted on 05/24/2005 5:48:00 PM PDT by Alex Marko
Controversial Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci is to face trial for allegedly insulting the Muslim faith in her latest book, a court in Italy says. Ms Fallaci is being sued by the head of the Muslim Union of Italy, who says The Force of Reason is defamatory.
The journalist caused an uproar with The Rage and the Pride, published two weeks after the 11 September attacks.
In it, she said Western culture was superior to Islam and Muslim immigrants in the West had "multiplied like rats".
Her lawyers have defended her right to express controversial opinions.
"At the heart of her thinking is the following reasoning: the fight against Islamic terrorism is made more difficult by intellectual terrorism cloaked in anti-racism," Gilles Goldhagen, said in 2002, when a French judge was hearing a case to ban The Rage and the Pride.
'No good Islam'
The Force of Reason is said to have gone to print about 24 hours after the 11 March 2004 train bombings in Spain.
In it, Ms Fallaci argues that Europe is turning into "an Islamic province, an Islamic colony" and that "to believe that a good Islam and a bad Islam exist goes against all reason".
Italian preliminary investigative judge Armando Grasso ordered the formulation of charges against the author, saying the book had expressions which were "unequivocally offensive to Islam".
Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, sued the writer on 8 April 2004. He says Ms Fallaci has been advocating and spreading hate against Islam and Muslims, sometimes by allegedly distorting real historical facts and inventing others.
The case is being tried in the northern town of Bergamo, where the book was published. The prosecution has 10 days to come up with a charge.
Ms Fallaci, who lives in New York, was a Resistance fighter in World War II and a former war correspondent.
What a GREAT BIG PORCINE IDEA! I shall call my local 4-H tommorrow in time for the fall fair!
Sorry! Still love Orianna! She takes no S**t and no prisoners!
Perhaps we could put her in the same room with Lindthay Graham and see who comes out smokin'!
You can't say f*cking sond of Allah?" Damn.
Anywhere else than the West and they'd be murdering her in public.
Insult a muslim, go to jail. Any questions?
America is a country that has great things to teach us. Speaking of heroic efficiency let me sing the praises of the Mayor of New York. That Rudolph Giuliani, whom we Italians should thank on our knees. Because he has an Italian last name, he is of Italian extraction, and he makes us look good in the entire world. He is a great, in fact a very great Mayor. This is coming from someone who is never happy about anything or anyone, starting with herself. He is a Mayor worthy of another great Mayor with an Italian last name, Fiorello La Guardia, and many of our Mayors should go to be schooled by him. Present themselves with their heads bowed, in fact with ashes on their heads, and ask him: Mr. Giuliani, please tell us how to do it.
He does not delegate his duties to others. He does not waste time in being a prick and thirsting for power. He does not divide his time between being Mayor and a senator or a representative. (is there anyone listening in the three cities of Stendhal, namely Naples, Florence and Rome?). Running to the site immediately, he entered the second skyscraper, and he risked being transformed into ashes with the others. He saved himself by a hair and by chance. Within four days he had the city back on its feet again. A city that has nine and a half million residents, note, and two million only in Manhattan. How he did it, I dont know. He is ill like me, poor man, he makes believe he is well: he works just the same. However, I work at a table, sitting comfortably! He instead He looked like a general that was personally participating in a battle. A soldier that throws himself forward with his bayonet. Come on people, Get on with it! Lets pull up our sleeves and get to work!, hurry!! He was able to do this because these people were, are, like he is. People without conceit and laziness, my father would have said people with balls. As to the admirable capacity to unite, the compact almost martial manner in which the Americans respond to tragedies and the enemy, well, I must admit that there and then it even surprised me. I knew that at the time of Pearl Harbor, the population rallied around Roosevelt, who had entered into the war against Hitlers Germany and Mussolinis Italy and Hirohitos Japan. I had smelled it, after Kennedys assassination.
I dont know if in Italy you saw and understood what happened in New York, when Bush went there to thank the workers (men and women) that are digging in the ruins of the two towers, trying to save survivors but have not found anything but a nose here a finger there. Without giving up, nonetheless. Without fatalism, so that if you ask them how they do it, they reply, I can allow myself to be exhausted not to be defeated. Everyone. Young, very young, old, middle age. Whites, blacks, yellows, browns, purple Did you see them? While Bush thanks them they waved little American flags, lifted a clenched fist and roared: USA! USA! USA!. In a totalitarian state, I would have thought, look how well the powers have organized this demonstration!. In America, no! In America one does not organize these things. You cant command them, you cant stage them. Especially not in a disenchanted metropolis such as New York, and especially not with New York City workers! They are terrible types, the workers of New York. Freer than the wind. They dont even obey their unions. But if you touch their flag, if you touch their country
Thank you for the ping
Sounds good to me
Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, sued the writer on 8 April 2004. He says Ms Fallaci has been advocating and spreading hate against Islam and Muslims, sometimes by allegedly distorting real historical facts and inventing others.
I think it's time we start filing suit against Muslims for insulting Christianity and Judaism and pointing out that the Koran is nothing but a roadmap to hate and murder. It is nothing but a "distortion of historical fact and invention of others," meaning lies.
I read this book recently. It is nothing but a 170 page rant about how Muslims are filthy, barbaric animals and Islam is wholly incompatible with civilized society.
I loved every last page.
LOL!
Thanks for the laughs, quite a twist at the end of the story. What is the moral of the story? hehehehe
I believe she wrote "Dialogue with my unborn child", expressing her regrets at having had an abortion. Very effective anti-abortion.
Who's in the pic? wow. :)
I don't think its possible to "insult" Islam.
Don't they have freedom of the press over there, or they just caving in to the mad Mullahs and their zombie followers?
This is exactly why I am glad we have a tradition of strong First Amendment protection of freedom of speech. Long may it be so!
I wish I could write as well as Orianna.
That is Oriana.
"Anywhere else than the West and they'd be murdering her in public."
They may still decide to do it because they know that they can get away with it.
Sweet,
you got a recent pic of her?
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