The free world loses a great one;
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 died in her home town of Florence after battling cancer for several years,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.
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Fallaci's recent publications - including the best-selling book "The Rage and The Pride," which came out weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks - drew accusations of racism and inciting hatred against Muslims.
"The Rage and The Pride," sold more than 1 million copies in Italy and found a large audience elsewhere in Europe. But Fallaci was also accused of racism.
Describing Europe as "Eurabia," Fallaci said the continent "has sold itself and sells itself to the enemy like a prostitute."
"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam," she wrote.
The current invasion, Fallaci went on to say, is not carried out only by the "terrorists who blow up themselves along with skyscrapers or buses" but also by "the immigrants who settle in our home, and who, with no respect for our laws, impose their ideas, their customs, their God."
Oriana's words need to be heard, buy her books, spread the truth.
Warrior in the cause of human freedom
LA Weekly review of "The Force of Reason"
Fallaci speaks for the ordinary reader. There is no one she despises more than the intellectual “cicadas,” as she calls them — “You see them every day on television; you read them every day in the newspapers” — who deny they are in the midst of a cultural, political and existential war with Islam, of which terrorism is the flashiest, but ultimately least important component.
Quotes by Oriana
Michelle Malkin on Oriana; ""This lioness has taught me much. Opened my eyes. Talk about speaking truth to power. Her trial in Italy for insulting Islam--commenced in Italy""
From Opinion Journal; "I feel less alone when I read the
books of Ratzinger." I had asked Ms. Fallaci whether there was any
contemporary leader she admired, and Pope Benedict XVI was evidently a
man in whom she reposed some trust. "I am an atheist, and if an atheist
and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's
that simple! There must be some human truth here that is beyond
religion."
From Atlas;
Fallaci:"The real enemy is Islam and the most catastrophic threat is immigration not terror. It is immigration.
And they do not integrate in Europe. Maybe in the USA but not in
Europe. Those riots in France are a result of that very thing". The
Chinese, Vietnamese etc immigrants are not rioting and tearing down the
very fabric of society.
"Don't believe in a dialog
with Islam. That's a naivete. It can only be a monologue. They do not
believe in pluralism. There is no such thing as a "moderate Islam" and
a Radical Islam. There is only one Islam."
A clear and bold voice, she will be missed.
