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2019-08-14 Europe

The resurgence of Oriana Fallaci's anti-Islam message in Italy

[Aljazeera] Rome, Italy - At his political rally in Milan in March, Italy's far-right Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini mentioned two women: the Virgin Mary, who, he said "will lead us to victory", and Oriana Fallaci, whom he described as "the founding mother of this Europe".

One of Italy's most famous journalists, Fallaci, who died in her late seventies in 2006, covered the Vietnam War and interviewed the likes of Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi and Ruhollah Khomeini.

After September 11, she adopted an anti-Islam stance and today her legacy is enjoying a moment of renewed popularity.

In 2019 Italy, Fallaci's unapologetic Islamophobia is alarmingly mainstream. The new ruling class is rediscovering Fallaci as a prescient thinker.

Streets or squares have been renamed after her in Pisa and Arezzo, in central Italy, and Genoa, further north.

A public garden was also dedicated to her in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial town close to Milan, where the mayor also blocked the construction of a mosque and recently mentioned Fallaci in his inauguration speech: "Her exhortations to the West to wake up still resonate today."

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-14 08:27|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 "alarmingly"... I don't think that word means what you think it means....

Posted by Mercutio 2019-08-14 09:39|| 2019-08-14 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 "If I had my way, the muslims in the country would have islamophobia." - Smartass grunt

It's called anti-islamism, it's no phobia. Everybody is clear and certain that islam is a mortal danger lurking within their cities.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-14 13:09|| 2019-08-14 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Screw muzzizm. A pox on pisslam. They are distinct but also inseparable. And both are incompatible in their very essence to a successful future for mankind.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-14 14:06|| 2019-08-14 14:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Not alarmingly but encouragingly

Posted by Lex 2019-08-14 14:37|| 2019-08-14 14:37|| Front Page Top

#5 So the phobia is a Fallaci?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-08-14 16:20|| 2019-08-14 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Fallaci famously was wearing a head veil to interview Kohmeini, only to throw it on the floor, and call it a "Medieval rag."

Posted by Regular joe 2019-08-14 20:42|| 2019-08-14 20:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Christopher Hitchens, writing in The Atlantic, called the book "a sort of primer in how not to write about Islam", describing it as "replete with an obsessive interest in excrement, disease, sexual mania, and insectlike reproduction, insofar as these apply to Muslims in general and to Muslim immigrants in Europe in particular".[35]

Truth is offensive to non humans.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-08-14 22:48|| 2019-08-14 22:48|| Front Page Top

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