Posted on 09/14/2006 11:39:21 PM PDT by HAL9000
The great Oriana Fallaci has died. She was loved and appreciated here. Let her free spirit rest in peace!
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Resquiescat in pace, Orianna. A brave lady.
Rest in peace Oriana. I hope at least some Europeans heard your views and learned from them.
Prayers up for a brave one we won't see the likes of again.
This is WAY too sad...that woman was a brave, brave woman, who had a lot to say.
You forgot to use the words, "boomer, hippie, pinko" in your description of us. For shame!
God rest her soul.
love these machine translations...
Wow.
She should be given a state funeral!
I hope her heaven is an Italianized Florence and a NYC (her adopted hometown)with celestially restored Twin Towers.
When will we see her likes again?
As the Islamists compare the pope to Mussolini, a fighter against his fascism passes away. Chilling irony.
RIP-she was a beacon of light shining the truth on the ugly truth of Islam.
<< The world just lost a warrior princess. >>
What a mind.
What courage.
What a love of and lust for life.
What a loss.
May she have made her peace with the Catholicism of her infancy and may, please, Dear Lord, the gates of Heaven have been swung wide to admit her carriage!
Amen
I was just referencing her today in a debate. While I knew she was ill I had hoped for more time, more writing on the issue of the day. Reading her last 2 books I found myself pausing every few paragraphs just to catch my breath. I will miss her very much. She may not have believed in God, but I have little doubt that he believed in her.
RIGHT !
God rest her soul! A provocative and honest journalist. A beautiful woman.
May her memory be eternal.
Naturally, my Mother Land, my Italy, is not todays Italy. The Italy of leisure time, a little sly, vulgar of those Italians whose only goal in life is to retire before reaching 50 and whose only passions are foreign vacations and soccer games. The bad, stupid, cowardly Italy, of the little hyenas who in order to be able to shake hands with a Hollywood celebrity would sell their own daughters to a Beirut bordello and who when the kamikaze of Osama Bin Laden reduce thousands of New Yorkers into a mountain of ashes that looks like ground coffee, scornfully say it serves them right. -- Oriana FallaciA great defender of America culture and values who was so much hated by Muslims and the European intelligentsia will never undermine the profound effect her books had in the minds and hearts of her readers.
Rest in eternal peace, Oriana.
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