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| Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam |
| 2006-05-29 |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #12 "'What are you going to do to me? You go fuck yourself—I say what I want.’ ” -Wish Condi would've said that to those asshole college kids last week. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-29 23:33 |
| #11 I think of her as The Divine Oriana, myself. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-05-29 14:20 |
| #10 She's like the Anti-Cindy. Can we call her "Mother Fallaci" ? |
| Posted by: Gene the Moron 2006-05-29 14:12 |
| #9 From the article: "I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. But the struggle for freedom does not include the submission to a religion which, like the Muslim religion, wants to annihilate other religions. Which wants to impose its ‘Mein Kampf,’ its Koran, on the whole planet. Which has done so for one thousand and four hundred years. That is, since its birth. Which, unlike any other religion, slaughters and decapitates or enslaves all those who live differently.” [...] “You’ve got to get old, because you have nothing to lose,” she said over lunch that afternoon. “You have this respectability that is given to you, more or less. But you don’t give a damn. It is the ne plus ultra of freedom. And things that I didn’t used to say before—you know, there is in each of us a form of timidity, of cautiousness—now I open my big mouth. I say, ‘What are you going to do to me? You go fuck yourself—I say what I want.’ ” -- Fallaci |
| Posted by: KBK 2006-05-29 13:33 |
| #8 It's particularly repugnant that someone who fought against actual fascism in World War II should be deemed a fascist by a snotty San Francisco clerk. |
| Posted by: Gene the Moron 2006-05-29 13:31 |
| #7 Bookstore Censors A FRIEND of mine took his daughter to visit the famous City Lights in San Francisco, explaining that this store is important because years ago it sold books no other store would - even, perhaps especially, books whose ideas many people found offensive. So, though my friend is no Ward Churchill fan, he didn't really mind the prominent display of books by the guy who famously called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns." But it did occur to him that perhaps the long-delayed English translation of Oriana Fallaci's new book, "The Force of Reason," might finally be available, and that, because Fallaci's militant stance against Islamic militants offends so many people a store committed to selling banned books would be the perfect place to buy it. So he asked a clerk if the new Fallaci book was in yet. "No," snapped the clerk. "We don't carry books by fascists." |
| Posted by: KBK 2006-05-29 13:14 |
| #6 Damn I love smart tough wimmens! Can you imagine the passion making up with her after a fight? After you got out of the hospital, of course. She rox! |
| Posted by: Ulererong Phutch1408 2006-05-29 12:32 |
| #5 By Holy Crap I mean that I am blown away by this LADY. Everyone has to read this article. HEr books are going on my summer reading list. Honesty and experience thrown in your face like a pitcher of Ice Water. I already beleive all this and it's still ice water. |
| Posted by: Gene the Moron 2006-05-29 12:01 |
| #4 Holy Crap. |
| Posted by: Gene the Moron 2006-05-29 11:58 |
| #3 She's not only an atheist, but a Christian atheist. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-05-29 10:53 |
| #2 You said it, JE. I don't care much for the title - it's misleading. She's not venting, she's nailing it to the barn door. Fallaci sees the threat of Islamic fundamentalism as a revival of the Fascism that she and her sisters grew up fighting. She told me, “I am convinced that the situation is politically substantially the same as in 1938, with the pact in Munich, when England and France did not understand a thing. With the Muslims, we have done the same thing.” She elaborated, in an e-mail, “Look at the Muslims: in Europe they go on with their chadors and their burkas and their djellabahs. They go on with the habits preached by the Koran, they go on with mistreating their wives and daughters. They refuse our culture, in short, and try to impose their culture, or so-called culture, on us. . . . I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture. Toward my values, my principles, my civilization. It is not only my duty toward my Christian roots. It is my duty toward freedom and toward the freedom fighter I am since I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. Islamism is the new Nazi-Fascism. With Nazi-Fascism, no compromise is possible. No hypocritical tolerance. And those who do not understand this simple reality are feeding the suicide of the West.” Word. |
| Posted by: Glavitch Sleremp9905 2006-05-29 10:05 |
| #1 That's a lot of woman. |
| Posted by: Jeater Elmoluter2206 2006-05-29 06:14 |