http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/orianafallaci/ en-us Tue, 20 May 2008 02:01:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018442/posts [translation thanks to Gates of Vienna] Oriana Fallaci Square in place of the mosque VERONA — Goodbye mosque. In its place, Oriana Fallaci Square. This decision was taken by the committee of Oppeano (Verona, Italy), where yesterday morning a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed. In its place, the Municipality will create a public square named after the writer of The Rage and the Pride, which promoted a bitter campaign against Islam. The decision to raze the structure which had been opened by ONLUS [translator’s note: Organizzazione Non Lucrativa di Utilita’ Sociale, a non-profit registered Italian charity] “For... La Republica (Italy) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018442/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 02:01:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923930/posts In 1985, when I first saw this photograph of Oriana Fallaci - or La Fallaci, as she referred to herself - I was a student at the Iowa Writer's Workshop: a displaced East Coast girl, unhappy in the cornfields among my cutthroat fellow students. I remember staring at Fallaci's surly expression, her dark nail varnish and burning cigarette, and thinking she was beautiful. Her deep-set eyes had a lived-in look: She saw the world for what it ws and did not give a damn how it regarded her back. Seeing this sophisticated Italian, I realized how out of place I... Janinedigiovanni.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923930/posts#comment Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:56:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887117/posts (All Things Catholic by John L. Allen, Jr) The deathbed friendship between a Bishop and an Atheist Conventional wisdom has it, "There are no atheists in foxholes." In truth, atheists can be found even in foxholes, but often they're atheists whose deepest yearning is to be wrong. In just that spirit, among people who believe that Western civilization today is locked in mortal combat with radical Islam, there's a growing contingent of what we might call "Christian atheists," meaning non-believers nonetheless committed to a strong defense of Christian culture. In this quirky galaxy, no star burned brighter than that of... National Catholic Reporter Conversation Cafe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1887117/posts#comment Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785195/posts Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY86h3_3rBA Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7byantNbxXg Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA489msllOg Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785195/posts#comment Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:40:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767156/posts “You go fuck 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... Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767156/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723533/posts ROME - An Italian journalist and self-described atheist who died last month has left most of her books and notes to a pontifical university in Rome because of her admiration for Pope Benedict XVI, a school official said Saturday. Oriana Fallaci had described the pontiff as an ally in her campaign to rally Christians in Europe against what she saw as a Muslim crusade against the West. As she battled breast cancer last year, she had a private audience with Benedict, who was elected only a few months earlier, at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. In one of... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723533/posts#comment Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:50:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718782/posts Hallo FRiends. I want to know you that next Sunday (15th October 2006) in Florence will be the Public Commemoration for the Italian Writer Oriana Fallaci. It will take place in a great and important room of the "Old Palace" in the center of the City. It has been organized by the Italian Movie-Director Franco Zeffirelli and the Italian Journalist Enrico Mentana. Of course I will come. And of course I will report for you. A lot of people miss Oriana. God bless you all. Claudia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1718782/posts#comment Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:11:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710475/posts I am a bigot, a Klansman "with higher-thread-count sheets," the "enemy within," part of "the rotten core of American extremists" who are making it harder for moderate Muslims "to recapture their own faith." So says Ralph Peters, retired military man, establishment conservative and eternal optimist. In a commentary in the September 7th New York Post, Peters went postal on those who believe (in his words) "that Islam can never reform, that the violent conquest and subjugation of unbelievers is the faith's primary agenda." Us Islamophobes fantasize about the "Protocols of the Elders of Mecca," imply that Muslims are "evil and... Don Feder.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710475/posts#comment Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:14:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706131/posts Hallo everybody! I write today in the name of some Italian web site (www.thankyouoriana.org and www.iostoconoriana.it). As you know, last week the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci passed away. You know for sure how much I loved and I still love her. Well, some people in Florence want to dedicate to her a Street or a Square. But the Major of the city (a commie, by the way) said no. I ask you to send him an e-mail asking to intitolate a Street with the name of Oriana Fallaci. We have already done it and we're asking to everybody to join... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1706131/posts#comment Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:13:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1704805/posts Oriana Fallaci (1929 - 2006) was called a leftist. Oriana Fallaci was called a fascist. I do not believe in the Left or the Right. I believe in the wet grass under my stockened feet soaking my skin. That is very much reality; that is not the symbolism of semantics. Labels are what men and women pin on each other as they seek to define the truth in their own minds. Fallaci was very much herself, whatever she believed in, and like most of us, her beliefs likely changed over time, with the ebb and flow of crisis and chaos,... Iraqi Bloggers Central http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1704805/posts#comment Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:23:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704321/posts http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=46554Sep. 18 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Camillo Ruini has announced that he thinks the international outrage surrounding Pope Benedict's speech in Regensburg is being fed-- especially in Italy-- by people who seek to damage the Pope's authority. "We deplore the misinterpretations-- which are not lacking in our own country," the cardinal said at a September 18 meeting of the leadership of the Italian bishops' conference. He promised that the Italian bishops would stand firm with the Pontiff, in the face of attacks that reflect a serious misreading of the Pope's actual text. Cardinal Ruini said that he was "surprised" that many... Catholic World News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704321/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703357/posts I envision her as a Viking warrior, whose body is sent to the gods on a fiery barge with all the honors due. Oriana Fallaci was outspoken, courageous, dedicated, talented, passionate and honest – in her personal life and in her writings as a journalist, reporter and novelist. And now she's gone. The call, early Friday morning, brought me the news I dreaded. Oriana Fallaci had died at 3 a.m. in a private clinic in the city of her birth, Florence, Italy. She was 77. She is survived by siblings and their children. I cried. I felt I knew her... Worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703357/posts#comment Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:36:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703129/posts NEW YORK--Even as Oriana Fallaci breathed her last through lungs marinaded in enough nicotine to sink a ship (leave alone a birdlike creature who weighed no more than 80 pounds at best, pearl necklace included), protests rumbled in the Muslim world over a recent utterance by Pope Benedict XVI in which he faulted the prophet, Muhammad, for exhorting his followers to spread Islam by the sword. Effigies of the pope have been torched by mobs, although the irruption has also included unintended drollery; a spokeswoman for the Musharraf dispensation in Pakistan observed yesterday that "anyone who describes Islam as a... opinionjournal- wall street journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703129/posts#comment Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:17:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702989/posts Fallaci died yesterday, September 15, in Florence, Italy.In her memory, I offer an introduction to Ms Fallaci that I delivered on November 28, 2005, at a Center for the Study of Popular Culture event honoring her, chaired by David Horowitz. Her talk that evening, at the 3 West Club in New York City, was latterly incorporated in her book, The Force of Reason. I believe this was her final public appearance. It is my great pleasure to introduce Oriana Fallaci to you.Born in 1930 in Florence, Italy, she was brought up in an anti-fascist family and her father was... danielpipes.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702989/posts#comment Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:28:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703064/posts Depressing Times Oriana Fallaci, RIP, the Pope, and a Sad Age Rarely has the death of a public intellectual affected me as much as the passing of Oriana Fallaci. I never met her, and only received a brief note once from her accompanying a copy of The Rage and the Pride. The story of her career is well known, but her death, at this pivotal time, was full of paradoxes and yet instruction as well. Radical Islam is, among other things, a patriarchal movement, embedded particularly in the cult of the Middle-Eastern male, who occupies a privileged position in a... Work and Days http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703064/posts#comment Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:35:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702709/posts FAREWELL, LA FALLACI I never really thought cancer would get Oriana Fallaci. She seemed so full of fire in the last few years that one assumed any tumor would shrivel and burn inside her. No doubt the legal harassment from her enemies and their appeasers in European justice systems took some toll. But she lived to finish a brace of books unique in their rollercoaster combination of facts and passion. Here's what I had to say about The Force Of Reason in Maclean's a few months ago: Over in Sweden, they’ve been investigating the Grand Mosque of Stockholm. Apparently, it’s... Steyn Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702709/posts#comment Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702472/posts 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,... Political Mavens http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702472/posts#comment Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:20:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1702066/posts In the past day or so an interesting confluence of events happened that occasionally occurs and makes one want to keep trying. First we honor the life of Oriana Fallaci, that famous and courageous Italian writer, who devoted most of her last years to warning Europeans against the threat to European culture and freedom from the Islamic invasion that is taking place there. Many of her pleas were directed at Pope John Paul II, who was so instrumental in bringing down the Soviet empire, but who gave few outward signs that Islamic fascism greatly concerned him. Oriana died today of... From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1702066/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:46:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701974/posts ROME -- Veteran journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci, a former war correspondent best known for her abrasive interviews and provocative stances, has died, Italian news reports said Friday. She was 76. Fallaci, who had been diagnosed with cancer years ago, died in a Florence hospital, the Italian agencies ANSA and Apcom said. The reports said that she had been hospitalized for days. Fallaci, a former Resistance fighter and war corespondent who was hardly seen in public, had lived in New York for years. Her recent publications _ including the best-selling book "The Rage and The Pride," which came out weeks... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701974/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701883/posts E' dead woman the scrittrice Oriana Fallaci Passed away to 77 years to Florence celebre the author: it suffered from some years of a badly incurabile one FLORENCE - E' died to Florence the scrittrice Oriana Fallaci. It had 77 years, was plagued from some years from a badly incurabile one. It second seems that the journalist was ricoverata from some day in a hospital fiorentino where, its precise dispositions, the stay in hospital has happened in the most tightened riserbo. The funerals will be carried out in closely private shape Corriere della Sera (Italy) via translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701883/posts#comment Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688581/posts Europe is facing a great conspiracy to destroy its civilisation, enslave its peoples, and use it as a base for the conquest of the world. The conspiracy is hatched by Muslims with a diabolical strategy in which mass immigration to Europe and high birth rates once they have settled there are the key weapons. That, in summary, is the theory that Italian journalist and author Oriana Fallaci exposes in her new book "The Force of Reason". This is a sequel to her 2002 book, "The Rage and The Pride", which amounted to an outpouring of deeply felt anger against Muslims... Asharq Al-Awsat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688581/posts#comment Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:44:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1648658/posts Author on trial for defaming Islam Associated Press Rome, June 12, 2006 The trial of Italian author and veteran journalist Oriana Fallaci, accused of defaming Islam in a 2004 book, opened Monday in northern Italy and was quickly adjourned, a lawyer said. Fallaci, who lives in New York, did not attend the hearing in Bergamo, northern Italy. Monday's hearing was largely devoted to technicalities, and the proceedings were adjourned to June 26, said Matteo Nicoli, a lawyer for the Muslim activist who brought the lawsuit against Fallaci. Activist Adel Smith, who also was not in court, charged that some passages... HindistanTimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1648658/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648211/posts Oriana Fallaci is 75 years old. The renowned Italian journalist lives in hiding because of death threats she received after the publication in 2001 of her book The Rage and the Pride. She is dying of cancer. And now she is going to go on trial for “defaming Islam.” The complaint comes from Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, who was never charged with defaming Christianity after he referred to a crucifix as a “miniature cadaver” during his 2003 efforts to have depictions of Christ on the Cross removed from Italian schools.[1] He has amassed a reputation... .frontpagemag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648211/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:04:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648128/posts Italian author and veteran journalist Oriana Fallaci goes on trial Monday, charged with defaming Islam in a 2004 book. Fallaci, who lives in New York, was not expected to attend the hearing in Bergamo, northern Italy. Muslim activist Adel Smith filed a lawsuit against Fallaci, charging that some passages in her book, "The Strength of Reason," were offensive to Islam. Smith's lawyer cited a phrase from the book that refers to Islam as "a pool ... that never purifies." Last year, a judge ordered that she stand trial on charges of violating an Italian law that prohibits "outrage to religion."... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648128/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646784/posts The firestorm over her comments about the 9/11 widows showed that America’s obsession with loving or hating Coulter is a psychological phenomenon almost unique in our culture Ann Coulter's new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, has just been published by Crown Forum. With predictable celerity, it has inspired another multiplatform media conflagration between her admirers and her opponents, some of whom don't seem to understand that controversy doesn't hurt book sales. I had resolved never to write about Coulter again, after my cover story on her from last year received 6,360 letters — most of them not warmly positive,... Time.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646784/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:05:44 GMT