Posted on 04/16/2009 5:02:08 AM PDT by kellynla
“You go f**k yourself,” said Oriana Fallaci to no one in particular in a recent New Yorker profile. “I say what I want.”
And she did. Latterly, she said what she wanted about Islam, on which subject most of us feel constrained to be more, ah, circumspect. And what she wanted to say to Islam boiled down pretty much to: go fuck yourself. She scorned Muslims for their habits of reproduction, of evacuation, of female genital mutilation. She developed obsessions both arcane – who really invented sherbet (the ancient Romans, not the “sons of Allah”) – and unhealthy, if not psychologically then certainly actuarially: what’s the deal with Mohammed’s nine-year old wife? who sodomized whom at Mehmet II’s big knees-up to mark the fall of Constantinople in 1453? These are areas in which more discreet scholars prefer to draw a veil if not the full burqa. In The Rage And The Pride she dwelt upon the hitherto neglected topic of micturition among Somali immigrants in Florence’s Cathedral Square, whom she accused of leaving “yellow streaks of urine that profaned the millenary marbles of the Baptistery”:
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Language alert. You missed a FU in the article.
I have to agree with this woman’s assessment of the Moon Cult. I probably would not agree with much else she said.
Whatever she said—we need, yes need, more straight-talkin’ bast@rds around these days—God knows precious few of us fvckers are around anymore!
Bat Y’eor has some more dignified stuff out there on the Muslims and Eurabia and Dhimmitude. She doesn’t mince words but she has a “little” more eloquence.
Yea, well, I make lots of mistakes...
of course, there are those who try, make mistakes and even succeed from time to time and then there are others who just sit back and criticize...you're either part of the problem or part of the solution. Don't bother thanking me for posting the article. shezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Good day!
Is there a link to the magazine article?
I'm gonna go look for more dirty words sos I can be indignant, too.
Kinda like lookin' for Easter Eggs.
“Is there a link to the magazine article?”
oops! sorry ‘bout that...I need another cup-a-Joe! LOL
Here ya go.
Link”http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1988/30/
Admin Moderator, please post the link to this article.
Thanks
My old English professor had a marvelously elegant way of commenting on bad language. She said, “Profanity is the CRUTCH of the inarticulate motherf**ker”. (Apologies to our more sensitive Freepers).
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