RIP Warrior Princess: Oriana Fallaci

Political Mavens ^ | 9/15/06 | Stefan Kanfer

[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.

[devolve]

Sorry -

I meant this question/reply

A graphics question

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702472/posts?page=52#52

[eleni121]

It was posted to 42. I copied and pasted it and there is big difference in the way it looks on the graphic here and the way it turns out on my document. Strange...

[Brian Allen]

<< We shall not look upon her like again.

Oh, yes we will, and we will honor her by doing so.

Here. >>

Amen to that!

We ARE her!

I, for only one, both thank God for her and promise to keep Oriana's memory and her fight alive, for as long as I may live.

BUMPping

[Brian Allen]

And his name is Dog Gone!

[devolve]

That .gif is 272x200 I believe

To keep the size low for quick loading for the 56K dialup bunch

It is Version 3.0 of a "still" .jpg format graphic -
it has 5 frames - 3 are transitional frames

Version 2.0 is large WxH and is only 2 frames
- about 560X410 -

The image tag must include:

width="544" height="408" border="0">

Or say - 520x390

Play around with the parameters to get the size you like

Use center tags above the image

Photobucket or Imagecave have excellent free image
hosting sites that you can get an account at

I cut the physical size on the 5 frame version as it was about 950K

Slow loading for the 56K dialup bunch

I myself use a circa 2000 WebTV Plus unit
no longer manufactured - on 56K dialup

No graphics software or hard drive

I use online graphics toolsites and
a bit of magic to make it all work

[potlatch]

a bit of magic

FOR SURE!!

[rock58seg]

You should get the book, "The Sayings of the Ayatollah." Very popular as humor in the early eighties.

I always liked, "A man should not use more than two rocks to wipe with."

[eleni121]

Very nice. OK. Now I see the transitional features which did not come up when I saved it.

Thanks

[Victoria Delsoul]

Brave voice against the Phony Religion Of Peace!

Indeed.

Requiescat in pacem, Oriana.

[potlatch]

I did not see the real magic in that appearing, disappearing page earlier, wonderful!

[devolve]

It takes a second for the music to load and I have a bunch of frames in there

I still have not figured out a .gif using those yet

[potlatch]

Placing them each on clear gifs, come and go and then all together. Positioning would be the hard part but I have "onionskin"!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in prayer for all her loved ones.

[.30Carbine]

"I savored the salt of hope."

I won't be a bit surprised if I see her at the Wedding Supper.

O Shalom dear Princess Oriana, Valiant Salty Warrior of Hope and Truth and Light and Life!

[dhs12345]

I will check it out. Thanks.

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed. Thank you for your post!

[.30Carbine]

You are so good at following up on every single ping you get! What a gracious giver you are! What a fine example you set!