Italy - Writer Oriana Fallaci has died

Corriere della Sera (Italy) via translation ^ | September 15, 2006

[HAL9000]

E' dead woman the scrittrice Oriana Fallaci

Passed away to 77 years to Florence celebre the author: it suffered from some years of a badly incurabile one

FLORENCE - E' died to Florence the scrittrice Oriana Fallaci. It had 77 years, was plagued from some years from a badly incurabile one. It second seems that the journalist was ricoverata from some day in a hospital fiorentino where, its precise dispositions, the stay in hospital has happened in the most tightened riserbo.

The funerals will be carried out in closely private shape

[vimto]

A great lady indeed - Europe has some left but each one is a rare jewel.

a tip of the hat and a fond farewell.

[Rightfootforward]

"God rest the soul of this great and courageous lady."

My sentiments exactly. I met her briefly in Chicago in the sixties when I was quite young. What a fascinating lady!
She was there to see her American publisher, Henry Regnery, who had released her marvelous collection of interviews entitled, The Egotists. Anyone interested in reading about some of the more colorful characters from that era should read it. Copies of it occasionally show up on eBay.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

She was 77 years old, was distressed since a few years from an incurable evil.

The same could be said of Western civilization.

[goldstategop]

I hope she managed to personally translate the final volume of her 9/11 trilogy before her death - or made arrangements to have it done posthumously. She is Italy's - and the world's treasure.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Prayers go out to her and her family.

Her best legacy would be if people would finally heed her warnings. I think they may be too late to do any good. Her writings should be taught in schools, but that would mean bumping some goofy worthless socialist and they aren't about to do that.

[jeremiah]

The bird to All that called her enemy, prayers to all that called her friend, or mentor. I will miss her occasional missives, and am bookmarking this for later usage.

[JennysCool]

This passage is worth repeating:

“This,” Fallaci declared, “is what I have experienced the last four years.” She described how, since 9/11, the whole of Europe has become a “Niagara Falls of McCarthyism” – with the new Grand Inquisitors of the Left persecuting and victimizing all others. “In Europe, we too have our Ward Churchills, our Noam Chomskys, our Michael Moores, our Lewis Farrakhans.” And they are doing immense damage to the unity, will and cultural identity of the people. In Europe as in America, the new thought police ban Christmas observances to avoid offending Muslims; history is rewritten to depict Islam as having built a civilization of peace and mercy (regardless of the preponderance of evidence to the contrary), while Europe’s own Judeo-Christian civilization is regarded as “a spark of a cigarette – gone.” A spent force. In Leftist-controlled municipalities, police stand idly by while Muslim hooligans demonstrate their contempt for European society and culture by urinating upon and otherwise desecrating churches. Fallaci: “This is considered ‘freedom of expression’ – unless the offense is committed against Muslims.”

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=Fallaci

[nopardons]

May this brilliant and courageous woman rest in peace. She will be sorely missed.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Cacique]

Requiescat in Pacem

[publana]

This is sad news indeed. Rest in peace dear lady.

[Virginia-American]

RIP, Oriana Fallaci.

She had courage and told the truth. She will be missed.

[Liberty Valance]

I'm sorry to hear of her passing. She was a beacon in a sea of leftists.

[winner3000]

She was quite a special person. May she rest in peace.

[livius]

Memory eternal. She was a very valiant lady.

[Prospero]

At post 34 on http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701891/posts can be found links to NRO articles about her Show Trial on PC violations in Italy, for darng to tell the truth about the clear and present danger of the manifest conflict between the flood if immigrants loyal to Sharia over the US Rue of Law.

[gridlock]

The passing of one of the All Time Greats.

[fieldmarshaldj]

May she rest in peace.