Posted on 06/01/2002 5:19:37 PM PDT by Pokey78
Oriana Fallaci, the Italian war correspondent and writer who for generations embodied the liberal conscience, has caused a sensation by attacking Islam and the European Left in tones compared to those of far-right extremists.
Fallaci has broken a decade of silence in the wake of 11 September to savage Muslims as 'vile creatures who urinate in baptistries' and 'multiply like rats'.
In a book which has become a runaway bestseller in Italy and Spain and has just been published in France, she denounces Europeans who sympathise with the Palestinians as anti- Semites who would sell their own mothers to a harem to see Jews once again in the gas chambers and ovens of Dachau.
The 71-year-old veteran of the Italian resistance and chronicler of wars in Vietnam and Lebanon was at home in Manhattan when the planes crashed into the World Trade Centre.
'They say: "Good. It serves America right." And I am very, very, very angry. Angry with an anger that is cold, lucid, rational. An anger that eliminates every detachment, every indulgence. An anger that compels me to respond and demands above all that I spit on them. I spit on them.'
Human rights watchdogs accused Fallaci, who suffers from cancer, of playing into the hands of Osama bin Laden's fanatics by using provocative language to stir religious hatred.
Last week, the Brussels-based European Observatory on Racism deplored the 'violent and insulting tone' and content which was 'explicitly anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-immigrant'. The writer was placed in the same category as Umberto Bossi, the xenophobic leader of Italy's Northern League.
After the Milan daily, Corriere della Sera, coaxed an article from Fallaci last September, the Italian publisher Rizzoli persuaded her to write a book, Anger and Pride, which was published at Christmas. It has been reprinted five times in Italy and unauthorised translations swiftly appeared on pro-Israeli websites. So too has Fallaci's latest article which lambasted European anti-Semites.
Jewish leaders such as Amos Luzzatto and conservative politicians such as Antonio Martino, Italy's Defence Minister, have praised her for having the courage to defy political correctness.
Revered in Italy for resisting the Nazis in Florence when aged only 14, she depicted Europe as infested with anti-Semites who made Jews afraid to walk the streets.
'I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new Nazism,' she wrote.
I knew the international human rights sewer rats would find a way to condemn the author. I couldn't help but notice that they aren't griping about the Islamafascists' "using provocative language to stir religious hatred".
... It has been reprinted five times in Italy and unauthorised translations swiftly appeared on pro-Israeli websites. So too has Fallaci's latest article which lambasted European anti-Semites ...I love this woman. Where can you find these unauthorized translations of her book or articles?
BTTT
The writer is typical, and only addresses Fallaci to maintain relevance. He smears her with the usual brushes, but very feebly. Spin that the "joos" are behind it - rather than address the articles merits or lack thereof.
And always, the unnamed "human rights" people, who are experts by fact of their professed humanitarianism.
Some of us are opposed to fanatics of all stripes -- though that can get you into trouble even here on FR. :-)
I certainly hope so, at any rate. I'm sure she's getting lots of pressure from the Islam-loving European left - and I hope she's finding out how much harder it is to resist intellectual pressure than to resist fear. Being laughed at and ridiculed by one's "peers" is probably harder, in its own way, than being hunted by the Gestapo.
accused Fallaci, who suffers from cancer,
Ahhh, she obviously doesn't know what she is doing since she is ravaged by disease (/sarcasm)
of playing into the hands of Osama bin Laden's fanatics
Yes, we certainly wouldn't want the followers of OBL to get mad at us...
can't say anything to upset them ...
or they might do something that will kill hundreds ....
or maybe even thousands .....
of ......
people ........
uhm ......
hmmmmm ........
well ........
never mind.
Jewish leaders such as Amos Luzzatto and conservative politicians such as Antonio Martino, Italy's Defence Minister, have praised her for having the courage to defy political correctness.
Bravo! She is an excellent writer.
Which just shows how little watching the "human rights watchdogs" actually do, compared to the amount of politicking.
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