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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.
I am going to buy these books.
An Italian buddy of mine really likes this woman.
I appreciate them.
It galls me to no end that the overwhelmingly majority of the American public have absolutely no idea who Khalid Bin-Mahfouz is, or his culpability for the massacre of innocent Westerners, such as we saw on that horrific Tuesday morning in 2001.
Anyone who's read Brisard's book-and I'll be the first to admit that it contains its share of hackneyed, Michael Mooresque conspiracy theories, especially in its focus on the mythical gas exploration pipeline that American corporate executives were allegedly planning on routing through Afghanistan-can't help but come to the inescapable conclusion that this oil-stained cretin in a disdasha is the primary culprit in a web of international financial intrigue, a truly vile individual that bankrolled-to a significant extent-the ultimate rise of Al Qaeda.
His East Indian equivalent would be Dawood Ibrahim-another terror kingpin that the public knows too little about-whose relationship to his patrons in the terror-stained Pakistani ISI is analogous to Mahfouz's intimate connections with leading members of the House of Saud and the Bin Laden clan.
That is heartbreaking.
I know :(
God speed, Ms. Fallaci!
>>>the mythical gas exploration pipeline that American corporate executives were allegedly planning on routing through Afghanistan-can't help but come to the inescapable conclusion that this oil-stained cretin in a disdasha is the primary culprit in a web of international financial intrigue, a truly vile individual that bankrolled-to a significant extent-the ultimate rise of Al Qaeda.
That wasn't true? I thought Daniel Pearl was working on a story about this and that is what got him killed?
Matter of fact, this:
2 year missile sting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1313753/posts
Hemant Lakhani was here in the States seeking investors in the project.
This was all rumor?
I tell ya' - I've had enough of these "sensitive" muslims. I'm about ready to go nail a slab of bacon on the door of the local mosque!
Thankee for the additional info on these flyspecks. It's true, I don't recall ever hearing of the author before this article. Based on their lawsuit and quotes within the thread, I am her newest fan.
The post-9/11, Michael Moore-peddled fiction that Operation Enduring Freedom was some sort of vengeance exacted at the expense of recalcitrant Taliban-who refused to allow multinational corporations to exploit that country's natural resources-engineered by the "oil-men" in the Bush administration; which is what I was referring to in my earlier post.
These were tentative meetings, only one of which-if memory serves me correctly-actually took place, which occurred during the Clinton administration.
But the people in office at the time really isn't a material issue, since this was, first and foremost, a corporate venture.
What's more, the significance of Afghanistan to this transcontinental pipeline-if it ever does come to fruition-is minimal, at best.
The Caucasus, especially the nations of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, will play a much more pivotal role in this prospective project-which I hasten to add, is still nothing more than a nebulous blueprint-if it ever gets off the ground.
The reason that these anti-American Chomsky acolytes place so much emphasis on Afghanistan is because-from their warped perspective-it retroactively delegitimizes our liberation of the Afghan people from the brutal, obsurantist, medieval Taliban-Al Qaeda regime, thus reinforcing the Marxist viewpoint that the United States uses foreign policy merely as an instrument of corporate expansionism, rather than as a means of spreading liberty across the globe.
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Thank you for the extra tidbits G!
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
One might want to point out to Mr. "Smith" - obviously a convert to Mohammad - what would happen to someone who tried the reverse procedure in a country where the ROP reigns. I believe DEATH is the sentence for conversion.
And here he is trying to tear down the freedoms that protect him... undermine his own rights. Ahole.
I do that a lot.
Is she also the one who wrote in defense of men, against all the women's lib PC?
That, I don't know.
I got the author wrong, it's Faludi, who sounds like a Falaci-type stand-up gal:
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
by Susan Faludi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/sim-explorer/explore-items/-/0380720450/0/101/1/none/purchase/ref%3Dpd%5Fsxp%5Fr0/104-3737830-7179943
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