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September 15, 2006
Italy: The Scourge Of Islam, Oriana Fallaci, Is Dead
Today, the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci lost her battle against cancer, DPA reports. Aged 77, she died in hospital in her home town of Florence.
She was indicted by an Italian judge in June of 2005, for comments she made in her book "The Force of Reason". She was charged for "defaming Islam". We reported on June 9 that she was under threat of another charge for threatening to "blow up a mosque", though that threat was hardly meant seriously.
She was criticising the way a mosque minaret marred the landscape of a rural region of Italy, Colle di Val d'Elsa, near Siena "I do not want to see a 24-metre minaret in the landscape of Giotto when I cannot even wear a cross or carry a Bible in their country, so I blow it up!" she had said.
On June 12 the trial for defaming Islam officially began, but was adjourned. Neither Fallaci nor her arch-nemesis Adel Smith, who campaigned for her prosecution, appeared in court. At the time, Fallaci was in New York.
In her most recent book "The Force of Reason" she had written: "To be under the illusion that there is a good Islam and a bad Islam or not to understand that Islam is only one....is against reason."
Her defamation (vilipendi) charges had been brought for her comments in this book.
In her career she has interviewed Kissinger, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Bhutto, WIlly Brandt, Indira Ghandi, Gadafy, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, sometimes with an abrasive style. In an interview with Kissinger from 1972 she said "Let's talk about war. You're not a pacifist, are you?"
During an interview with Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, Fallaci called the Iranian Ayatollah a "tyrant" and removed her head covering chador.
She was born in Florence on June 29, 1929 and had worked in Italy's Resistance before she went on to become a journalist. A former atheist, in later life she rediscovered her Catholic roots, and met Pope Benedict XVI last year.
Her family have asked for a private funeral.
An obituary from the Times can de found HERE.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 15, 2006 5:18 AM
Comments
Oriana Fallaci is an interesting writer, and her ideas are definitely intellectually stimulating.
But given the pressing issue of sexual suicide in the West, isn't it striking that this woman has not managed to produce one single child, not even for the sake of the argument? She has been everything in her life, except a wife and a mother.
Given the damning divorce rate and the resulting collective-suicide birth rate in the West, which will most likely become the foremost reason for Italy being turned over to her arch enemy, Islam, sooner or later, this woman is surely no role model for the generations of women to come.
Posted by: Nasty guy ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at September 15, 2006 7:21 AM
Oh dear.
She is no role model, because she had no children? Do you know her gynaecological status?
Is the subject of sexual fertility to occlude the ideas that a person represents?
This attitude is not only tiresome, but it is totalitarian. How would infertile women be placed in your ideal society? At the bottom of the heap?
When Muslims will kill those who criticise Islam, some people with children do not speak up for fear of their children's safety, and Italy should be thankful that a childless woman chose to stand up and be counted, and who sounded the alarm bells against Islam.
Your arguments on fertility are getting tiresome. They do nothing to help the fight against radical Islam, which is at present needs the general population raising awareness of the problems. When the media is still promoting the lie that "Islam means peace" issues of fertility (long-term goals) are an irrelevance.
Posted by: Giraldus Cambrensis at September 15, 2006 7:34 AM
"Your arguments on fertility are getting tiresome. They do nothing to help the fight against radical Islam"
It is pointless to criticize the enemy if one is incapable of looking inside one's own bosom. The West has to identify the beam in its own eye, and act upon it. There is at least one crucial thing that works well in Islam and does not work at all in the West: family.
Therefore, the battle against radical Islam will require something which is very hard to achieve, but absolutely necessary: self-criticism.
If the issue is not addressed sooner or later, it is obvious that it will be the basis for the victory for the ones you were trying to defeat. By the way, from there on, there would be no reason for them to be radical any longer; and then they could conceivably revert to being what they say they want to be: a religion of "peace".
"How would infertile women be placed in your ideal society?"
If all women were infertile, there would be no society, and hence the point would be moot.
"the general population raising awareness of the problems"
You can imagine that muslims will instantaneously zoom in on the alarming weaknesses of the West in any public and honest debate. You'd better be prepared.
Posted by: Nasty guy at September 15, 2006 8:49 AM
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