More - Michael Ledeen remembers a friend..
As Muslims roam streets around the world in search of Roman embassies to burn, this Fallici quote;
Now, I ask myself: “What do you say, what do you have to say, about what happened in London?” They ask me face-to-face, via fax and email; often scolding me because up until now I have remained silent. Almost as if my silence were a betrayal. And each time I shake my head and murmur to myself: what else should I say?!? I’ve been saying it for four years--that I fight against the Monster that has decided to eliminate us physically and, along with our bodies, to destroy our principles and values. Our civilization. For four years I’ve been talking about Islamic Nazism; about the war against the West; about the death cult; about European suicide. About a Europe that is no longer Europe, but Eurabia, and that with its feebleness, its inertia, its blindness, its servitude to the enemy is digging its own grave. For four years, like another Cassandra, I’ve been shouting until I’m hoarse “Troy is burning! Troy is burning!” and I despair of the Danaids for whom, like Virgil in the Aeneid I weep for a city entombed in its torpor. [A city] that, through its wide-open doors receives fresh troops and joins complicit parties [inside]. For four years I’ve been repeating to the wind the truth about the Monster and its accomplices; that is, the accomplices of the Monster who, in good or bad faith, open wide the doors--who, like [those] in the Apocalypse of John the Evangelist, throw themselves at his feet and allow themselves to be stamped with the mark of shame.I began with “The Rage and the Pride.“ I continued with “The Force of Reason.“ I followed [those] with “Oriana Fallaci Interviews Oriana Fallaci,” and “The Apocalypse.” And in each one I preached, “Wake up, West! Wake up!“ The books, the ideas, for which in France they tried me in 2002, accusing me of religious racism and xenophobia. For which Switzerland asked our Minister of Justice to extradite me in handcuffs. For which in Italy I will be tried for vilifying Islam; that is, for an offense of opinion. (An offense that carries a sentence of three years in prison; none of which will be served by the Islamist caught with explosives in his cantina). Books, ideas, for which the “Caviar” left, the “Fois Gras” right, and even the “Prosciutto” Center have denigrated and vilified me, putting me in the stocks together with all who think as I do. That is, together with the sensible and unprotected people who are defined by the radical-chic in their frivolous talk as “the riff-raff of the Right.
Via Michelle Malkin, who has more.
One extremely brave and insightful woman, who put cowardly dhimmis like Taliban Jack to shame.
She was an atheist yet it’s interesting that she might very well have influenced the Pope to take a stand on the Islamists.
I agree with much of what she said except that I’m not as pessimistic as she seemed to be that Islam can’t reform. I think it can but it will need leadership that so far is not evident.
As Yasser Arafat said in his interview with Oriana Fallaci:
"We don't want peace! We want war, victory. Peace for us means the destruction of Israel and nothing else. That which you call peace, is peace for Israel and the imperialists. For us it is injustice and shame. We will fight until we achieve victory. Decades if necessary, generations."* ...-
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17268
* Oriana Fallaci, Interview With History, Liveright, 1st Ed., 1976.
Ciao, Bella.
An amazing woman.
ability , skill, insightfulness and courage!
What a woman, what a loss.
The West has lost a champion.
May she rest in peace, we surely will not.
"Signora Fallaci rounds up a quarter-century’s worth of westerners who’ve insisted that everything you know was invented by Islam: Paper, medicine, sherbet, artichokes, on and on and on…"
3w.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=69
The woman who exposed Henry Kissinger for the fraud that he was.
A rare journalist, indeed. She didn't pretend to ask the tough questions, she asked them. Too many journalists are too concerned today about where their paycheque is coming from and write or speak accordingly. Or worse, pretend they are getting the story and insult their audience. Perhaps Oriana can be a model for them.
"Oriana Fallaci, Writer-Provocateur, Dies at 77"
I just spotted this NYT's headline. Provocateur. Got that. The smarmy little weasels. They just had to get their swipe in.
God, do I hate that paper. I didn't stick around to read it. Comparing Maureen Dowd to this great lady is my mental revenge.
Oriana Fallaci
I had the privilege of listening to a lecture by Oriana Fallaci at Harvard sometime in 1983. I realize now that she was 53 and it must have been at around that time
that the picture below was taken
because that is precisely how I remember her. I can't recall the subject of the lecture, but I have an intense memory of her leaning forward on the podium smoking a cigarette (incessantly) and removing the thin, dark jacket she was wearing to hang it on a nearby chair. I never saw her again.
A few months ago, a friend in Manhattan attended to what must have been one of her last public appearances. By then she was 76 and very sick of cancer. And still she spoke, through the written word and at small gatherings. And this time I paid attention,
not to a woman in the autumn of her beauty,
but to a warrior in the fullness of her strength.
At the time of her death Oriana Fallaci was facing a suit in Italy for daring to suggest that her country and culture were under threat from radical Islam. In her youth she did not bow to Hitler;
and in her old age she hurled defiance at yet another tyranny.
The darkness came and yet the darkness claimed her not. ...-
http://www.fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/
...-
Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ...-
classic poetry
RIP ariana you were a great crusader.
A loss of a truly amazing and courageous women, in an age when so many have lost the meaning of the word courage.
After reading the Force of Reason, I'm now reading If the Sun Dies, which I highly recommend.
Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw
The Torch; be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
in Flanders fields.
The best tribute anyone can give this Women is to emulate her actions in exposing all hypocracy, no matter the cost personaly. As she did.
After her, who is left? Who are the real journalists? That sycophant Mike Wallace, smirking at a man who used children in human wave attacks? How about Christiane Amanpour? I know, i Know ... Anderson Cooper. Sure he can't think, but gosh can he 'feel' at us. And look good doing it.
Regardez (from AlJazeera):
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They said that England couldn't go fascist, because the first time people saw soldiers goose
-stepping down the street, they would burst out laughing.
Oriana did that, she met these people in person and burst out laughing. She laughed in their faces and showed how weak and small they are, how pathetic their plans are, how shallow their Ozymandian politics are.
It almost goes without saying that we need reporters like her now as much as ever.
I think the best epitaph for her would be that 'she wasn't impartial or objective - she was fair'.
Thanks for posting this Kate. I must shamedly admit, I've never heard of her, but now I want to (and will) learn everything I can about her. She was the kind of woman we rarely see now.
Mark Steyn wrote "Can a society become increasingly Islamic in its demographic character without becoming increasingly Islamic in its political character?"
Fallaci understood that the question is a rhetorical one, and that the answer is "no".
If demographic trends continue -- Rotterdam is 40 percent Muslim and growing strong, while the native Dutch have a below-replacement birthrate -- what sort of laws, what sort of social conditions, what sort of government will Europe see in thirty, or forty, or fifty years?
Such questions are completely fair, and realistic, and caring ones for any cultural European to ask. That a dying woman of honour should have been hounded and persecuted for giving sound, farsighted, almost self-evident answers to them is a real tragedy.
She never wavered, utterly refusing to negotiate with her state persecutors about which truths shall be allowed and which ones forbidden.
Here's to Oriana Fallaci, who kept her courage even while hounded into frailty and death, who knew that the truth is like a diamond -- immutable, impossibly strong, and shining.
So called "Feminists" the world over should hand their head in somber reflection today. But they won't.
So called "Feminists" the world over should hang their head in somber reflection today. But they won't.
Dying of the light, indeed...
take up our quarrel with the foe,
to you, from failing hands,
the torch we throw...
Dying of the light, indeed...
take up our quarrel with the foe,
to you, from failing hands,
the torch we throw...
sorry for the double post
Che donna e che simbolo di persona preparata intellettualmente.Ho letto tutti i suoi libri e l'ho seguita da anni. Sono fiero di averla conosciuta tramite i suoi libri,sono cambiato da quando la seguo e la visione di un mondo migliore l'ho trovata tramite Lei...Si potrebbero scrivere libri su di Lei e sul suo personaggio... ma che importa al popolo ottuso e ubriaco di ignoranza di quello che Lei ha voluto trasmettere...Sono i yes men che guidano il popolo dove vogliono e come vogliono...con molta tristezza penso a te che ci hai lasciati (Oriana ) forse 'e meglio per te di averci lasciato prima che le tue previsioni diventeranno fatti...grazie per tutti quelli che ti hanno capito e che hai cambiato tramite lettura e contemplazioni
Luciano Iannacci