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Bat Ye'or, whose book Eurabia will soon be out, on Oriana Fallaci's latest, at FrontPage:
Fallaci forthrightly accuses the media of complicity with the enemies of the West, and shows how they apply a double standard with selective silence and omission on issues such as the martyrdom of Lebanese Christians and the decapitation of European hostages. She denounces the new Nazi Fascism, the new bolshevism, the new collaboration, the blindness and cynicism of politicians, their collusion in the progression of Islamist-Nazi Fascism. She detects a return to the Europe of 1938 in the current politics of the European Union, this proudly antisemitic and anti-American “Eurabia” flourishing on the putrefaction of Twentieth Century genocidal hatred....In a few short pages, a masterpiece of irony, she denounces “the cannibalism of political life,” the demagogy, the historical revisionism – especially with regard to Communism – the intellectual terrorism and cultural hegemony that is rotting the workings of society. Comparing the “warrior-pacifists” draped in their rainbow flags to the appeasers of 1938, Fallaci exposes the surrender cloaked in their inane slogan, “You don’t fight terrorism with weapons.” A politically astute Fallaci detects the occult collaboration behind the affair of the Italian hostages in Iraq and the channels the terrorists used to transmit their demands. What is the Euro-Arab connection at work in the joint anti-American and anti-Israeli policies? Who are the brigades of Nazi-fascism and Communism now affiliated with the green terror to inculcate antisemitism and hatred of the West? Fallaci gives us irreverent portraits of heads of state and tight knit analyses of the most important problems of our times, with focus on the future of European civilization.
Her concise vivid language traces the essential elements of international complexity seen, analyzed, and emotionally experienced with the lucidity and courage of a woman on the threshold of death. The book shines with intense fervor kindled by the author’s life and death struggle, her suffering in body and soul transcended by relentless work and reflection. In this brief masterpiece Oriana Fallaci moves us to tears, shakes us with laughter, enlightens us and transmits her love and despair for a Europe she served with such great devotion and now watches in despair as it goes adrift.
Posted by Robert at November 3, 2004 7:48 AM
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I relly like to read anything by Oriana Fallaci, she tells it like it is, no b.s.
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at November 3, 2004 11:06 AM
A case that fits perfectly into this description, although not exactly a dhimmitude issue: a British madman named Montefiore has written a book praising Stalin, claiming he was an intellectual leader and a great friend of literature and art...
Given the diligence with which Stalin destroyed Soviet intellectuals and banned art and literature, it would be just as good to say that Hitler was a great friend of Jews.
Of course, up here, we translate, sell and adore this crap , but Fallaci... she doesn't exist.
Posted by: Scandie at November 3, 2004 1:31 PM
Does anyone know about what made Orianna Fallaci change her views on Islam?
I found this interview interview she did with Makarios from the book "Interview with History" online. They have that book at a local library but I have not got around to reading it yet, the only book she wrote that I have read is "the Rage and the Pride". In the interview with Makarios her views of Islam are not the same as in the "Rage and the Pride". In that interview linked her comments are: "I mean the tragedy of the Turkish Cypriots? It doesn't seem to me that so far they've been the object of much concern. They've been treated like second class citizens and". Far from being second class citiziens in the 1960 Cypriot Constitution Turkish muslims were super citiziens with powers far beyond their share of the population(18 minority) and Greek Cypriots were dhimmis. I doubt today she would say the same thing she said to Makarios back then about the poor mistreated muslims on Cyprus. In the "Rage and the Pride" it seems meeting Arafat and spending time in Khoemini's Iran had an impact in realiging her views toward islam, but nothing really definitive on the transformation of her views toward Islam are mentioned in that book. Does anyone know if she has ever divulged what transformed her views toward Islam?
Posted by: Nikephoros_Phokas at November 3, 2004 5:20 PM
Nikephoros_Phokas, I don't know if this will answer your question, it is a very interesting article detailing her experiences in interviewing Khomeini. It is a long article but well worth the time.
http://www.travelbrochuregraphics.com/extra/oriana_fallaci_anger_and_pride.htm
at November 3, 2004 6:10 PM
Fallaci wanted to write a newspaper article about 9/11 but it became too long of a rant to contain in a mere newspaper article so she expanded that essay that appeared in the Corriere della Sera(which you link to) in "The Rage and the Pride". I already read it and it does not definitively describe the transformation of her views toward Islam. What transformed her during the period from that interview with Makarios and her believing of Turkish Cypriot allegations of oppression to her attacking of muslims in "The Rage of the Pride" for hypocritically crying racism and oppression while illegal immigrants in Italy, who respect Italy so little they literally shit and urinated on the cultural heritage of Italy.
Posted by: Nikephoros_Phokas at November 3, 2004 9:47 PM
It's a pity that the balls of the West are on a dying woman.
Posted by: Kepha1 at November 3, 2004 10:59 PM
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