Posted on 09/15/2006 8:20:40 PM PDT by Bokababe
Oriana Falacci was not a favorite with the PC crowd. She made no bones about her loathing of what she called Eurabia. This was no latter-day Crusader readying for the onslaught of the Islamic invader. As she saw it, the incursion had already taken place, and post-Christian Europe was the worse for it.
When she died last week she bequeathed to the world a series of books, some luminous, some overwrought, but all written with an ardent mind and heart.
Falacci’s last volume, The Force of Reason, uses a litany of radical Islam’s recent crimes—anti-Semitic and anti-Christian screeds, beheadings, explosions, murders, mutilations—and reinforces her critique with the most unbearable weapon of all: sarcasm.
“Always clever, the Muslims. Always at the top. Always ingenious. In philosophy, in mathematics, in gastronomy, in literature, in architecture, in medicine, in music, in law, in hydraulics, in cooking. Always stupid, we westerners. Always inadequate, always inferior. Therefore obliged to thank some son of Allah who preceded us.”
Small wonder that the howls of her quarry can still be heard in Continental courts, where she was forever being sued for “xenophobia” and “bias” for observations like this:
“If you are a Westerner, and you say your civilization is superior, the most developed that this planet has ever seen, you go to the stake. But if you are a son of Allah or one of their collaborationists and you say that Islam has always been a superior civilization, a ray of light…nobody touches you. Nobody sues you. Nobody condemns you.”
To further her argument, she dug out some aphorisms and advisories from the Ayatollah Khomeni that would make a cow cringe: “A man who has had sexual relations with an animal, such as a sheep, may not eat its meat. He would commit sin.”
“If a man marries a minor who has reached the age of nine and if during the defloration he immediately breaks the hymen, he cannot enjoy her any longer.”
In the main, however, her withering remarks were not only aimed at the enemy but at her friends, her colleagues, her associates. She saw Christians and Jews, and atheists like herself, out-populated, sated, world-weary, ripe targets for a cultural defeat. All this because of a decline in common sense, in the intelligence that was once a fact of life in the West.
“Refusing to admit that all Islam is a pond inside which we are all drowning, in fact, is against Reason. Not defending our territory, our homes, our children, our dignity, our essence, is against Reason Accepting the silly or cynical lies which are dispensed to us like arsenic inside the soup is against Reason.”
She had sounded taps over the Europe of her childhood, but to the end she believed in the United States, to which she had transplanted herself. Recalling the courage of the American bounceback after 9/11, the indefatigable Oriana discarded her perennial pessimism to declare in her final pages: “I set aside the anger I feel for the half-witted who want to remove the Christmas Tree from the Rockefeller Center. I set aside the contempt I feel for the multimillionaire third-worlder Hollywood stars, the bastards dressed up as University professors, the wretches who support pro-Islamic obscenities of Pro-Islamic UN. I set aside the disappointments that America has inflicted and inflicts upon me and upon Americans who fight like me, and I savored the salt of hope. The same hope I feel when I look at the photos transmitted by the probes seeking life on Mars, while looking at them I think: we cannot lose.”
R.I.P. Orina Fallaci, writer, prophet, warrior princess. We shall not like upon her look again.
I will pick up the torch and carry it whither I may, as best as I can!
I am a Westerner and a Christian. My Judeo-Christian culture is the greatest and most advanced that the world has ever seen.
Furthermore, my country and my culture owe ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATSOEVER to alla-uzza, the black hearted moon-rock wannabe deity otherwise known to all GOOD and EDUCATED human beings as SATAN, the great Deceiver, the Roaring lion seeking whom he may devour - nor are we indebted to any follower of his through the past 1300 years for anything other than RESTRAINING human peace and human progress
For which we have a blood debt to be accounted for.
Which shall be exacted from those purveyors of evil, murder, mayhem, blasphemy, perversion and deception!
A plague of all plagues upon the rotten soul of the misbegotten son of a leprous camel, the FALSE prophet mohammad the backstabber, mohammad the paedophile, mohammad the liar and adulterer, buggerer of small boys, molester of tied-up goats...
A curse of the most High G_d upon the nations who advocate or tolerate, {or shelter those who do either} genocide against the Jews, His chosen people...or Christians - forgiven, grafted into the vine and adopted by His grace.
His name is Elohim - it has never been 'alla'
Our civilization will not only survive, it will prosper more effectively the fewer of your kind there are in the world.
We do not even so much as need a wax figurine of any of you to serve as a reminder. We would rather forget your uniquely SICK worship of death and violence and repression; we would rather forget you.
Tomorrow I believe I will clean my guns and sharpen my knives, for sheer joy, whilst my mind occupies itself with thoughts unspoken.
Every day, I will sharpen my mind - for, since I do not live underneath the mindless jackbooted heel of muhammadanism, my worthless face ground into a useless prayer rug five times a day - it is my prerogative to think for myself and be responsible for my own actions - both to my neighbors, and to the True G_d of Heaven and earth!
AmericanArchConservative
"The Final Crusade has commenced; fight to the death for life as we have known it!"
That headline caused me to have a second of "OH NO! panic."
"her exposes on Islam's extremist takeover of Europe--Fallaci was not only on trial for her work,"
please take me off your ping list. Too many pings
We are being beheaded by anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectivists.
Aw! No worries. I'm still alive and kickin'!
Cuz, Am I the only one here who understands what you really mean by 'kickin?'
There are others... ;)
I copied pasted that sublime graphic and it came out different from what it is in your posting...what's up with that? Is it supposed to do that?
Orianna...eonia sou i mnimi...as you smile in the glory of the Lord Jesus.
LOL. No thank you. I'll take your word for it.
All the more reason to heed that "Christ fellow" who can stride the deep
Lovely post devolve!
Frankly, until I saw this article, I didn't know that she died. When I searched FR to see if anyone else had posted this article, there I saw a number of articles on her death posted -- but not this tribute, so I thought it a fitting memorial.
I know what you mean about the "Oh, no!". That's exactly what I felt when I saw this, even though I knew that she was dying of cancer.
She did her job in life, she warned us, the rest is up to us now!
my post #39 or post #42 ??
which animated .gif ??
I have many multi-frame graphics -
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width & height tag parameters are used in posting them on FR threads
an image may be larger or smaller than you see on a FR thread post
It was posted to #42, your Praying Hands graphic.
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