[dennisw]

Remain in light Oriana!

[dennisw]

ping

[swarthyguy]

It'd be so nice to see her on TV; if any of the networks had the chutzpah to put her on. Guess none of them do.

[robowombat]

One supposes that a big part of Ms Fallaci's dispair is driven by the steady increase in Moslem communities throughout Europe but especially in her native land. Islam is well on its way to a new wave of conquest, this time largely bloodless, of western countries through immigration and demographics. Moslems do not pay attention to the Club of Rome and Planned Parenthood about the need to not reproduce and they definately are not into zero population growth. In the sense that the west is up against a cultural entity that may be backward and incompetent but has boundless confidence in its dictums while Europeans have confidence in nothing and only want to be left alone to enjoy a life of materialist ease.

[mil-vet]

... but she cannot distinguish between mainstream and radical Islam.

Why SHOULD she? There IS no fundamental difference! If there were, the "mainstream" part would be denouncing, loudly and publically, the terrorist acts of the "radical". There is NO voice out of ANY part of islam making these denunciations, so all of islam is obviously united behind the violence, and therefore there is no difference. DUH!

Right on, Oriana!

Stay vigilent, stay armed, and NEVER trust a muslim!

[Lent]

"Racist, racist! They have become the new masters of the earth, these sons of Allah," she said in a talk to the American Enterprise Institute in October. Islam cannot be touched, she said, alluding to the political correctness — a kind of intellectual terrorism, she says — that she believes precludes any criticism of Islam and protects its followers. "They multiply like protozoa to infinity," she said of Muslims.

LOL! She capsulates the entire issue in a few sentences which would take me or others several paragraphs. Major bump to her.

[Alouette]

We welcome her turnaround," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "Her comments on the Islamic world are in essence true, but the shrill way she expresses herself makes us uncomfortable."

Who does this putz think he is, using the royal "we"?

[houstonian]

[pabianice]

We'll wake to the real nightmare of The Religion of Peace (tm) only after several more horrific attacks, of which some are guaranteed to be nuclear, chemical, or bio. Why does the US have to wait until it's been beaten to the mat before it lurches to its feet and comes out swinging?

[Rummyfan]

Bump for Oriana Fallaci! At least someone has the chutzpah to tell it like it is! Multiplying to infinity like protozoa! LOL!

[TigersEye]

Unintimidatable bump!

[EaglesUpForever]

Refreshing there are still people with convictions, who can see straight through the lies that are so prevalent in the media. Perhaps there is some hope.

[Hank Kerchief]

Did not see this post and posted the following to a later one. I have been a Fallaci fan for years.

She's lived in New York for twenty years. Her book is absolutely dynamite. Written an Italian, she translated it into English and French herself. Her translations has been rediculed, but I found it delightful.

It's a very short book, and if you have never read anything by her, you will find many interesting surprises.

She has very interesting things to say about Arafat and Jane Fonda. She's hated by the American press (because she eats them up), but also by the Left, the Right, Muslims, and Roman Catholics. She is not always right, but she is ruthlessly honest and absolutely fearless. (Do you remember the Mexico City massacre, I think it was in 1968? She was shot three or four time and left in a morgue for dead.) Tough lady!

About the Muslims, she's absolutely right.

Hank

[lodwick]

bttt

[denydenydeny]

Indexing.

[swarthyguy]

Where has all the rage gone...

[texasbluebell]

The great Fallaci with the old New York skyline.

[JasonC]

"She's a liberal icon who is now transmogrified into a not-too-convincing conservative"

Actually, it isn't much of a transformation. It is for the most part the left that has left her, not the reverse. It is the rest of the left that is stark raving mad on the subject of Islamic facists.

You have to jump through amazingly convoluted intellectual hoops to find it "liberal" to kiss Saddam Hussein's ass, to apologize for murderous religious fanatics, etc. She just doesn't. She has the class snobby, secularist opinions of a well read New York intellectual - of about a generation ago, perhaps, and without sucking up to communism, or anti-Americanism, or more recent multiculturalist claptrap. That is all.

As many a conservative has pointed out, we finally give leftists a war against obscurantist theocratic murderers, and they are against it because to favor it would put them on the same side as America. She just doesn't react that way, not being viscerally anti-American. She hates obscurantist theocratic murderers for all the reasons self-proclaimed liberals ought to hate them, but in practice do not.

Her reaction is certainly principled and praiseworthy, but it says more about others for failing to react the same way, than about anything particular to her, let alone any ideological change. The ideological change is on the commie left. They switch opinions on any subject the moment the US takes a side, to be against it, wherever it is.

What the Fallaci phenomenon shows is merely that such knee jerk anti-Americanism has spread from the outright communists, who have always been that way, to practically the entire modern left. Who no longer have -any- principles besides anti-Americanism.

[Prodigal Daughter]

Bookmarked for later reading!

[wingnuts'nbolts]

She is right, the Muslim religion because of what it is is part of the militant fundamentalist cause. They will defeat us just by infiltrating all our countries and becoming involved in politics and getting voting power, as well as terrorism. We as a culture really should listen to her and get serious about stopping the spread of Islam. I thing G.W. gets the picture.

[fella]

Finally a radical leftist gets it, to bad the rest of them won't listen.