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Muslim Activists, Italian Government Persecute Critic Oriana Fallaci

"If you are a Westerner and you say that your civilization is superior, the most developed that this planet has ever seen, you go to the stake. But if you are a son of Allah or one of their collaborationists and you say that Islam has always been a superior civilization, a ray of light...nobody touches you. Nobody sues you. Nobody condemns you" - Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason

In a supreme act of dhimmitude and disregard for free speech, a preliminary judge in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, Armando Grasso, has ordered Oriana Fallaci, a best-selling writer and journalist, to stand trial in her native Italy on charges she defamed Islam in a recent book. This, in spite of the fact that state prosecutors had originally dismissed accusations of defamation from an Italian Muslim organization, and said Fallaci should not stand trial because she was merely exercising her right to freedom of speech. Muslim activists accused Fallaci of inciting religious hatred in her 2004 work "La Forza della Ragione" (The Force of Reason). [Source: Hyscience]

Fallaci lives in New York and has regularly been threatened by Muslims due to her outspoken criticism of Islam following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. cities.

In "La Forza della Ragione," Fallaci wrote that terrorists had killed 6,000 people over the past 20 years in the name of the Koran and said the Islamic faith "sows hatred in the place of love and slavery in the place of freedom."

The National Review online has a lengthy review of the book, Force of Reason. Here are a few excerpts:

As its title suggests, The Force of Reason is not dictated by the (sometimes excessive) fury that inspired The Rage and the Pride, but it gives a more accurate explanation of why Europe has decided not to defend its identity and to surrender to what she calls the "Islamic invasion." With the sarcasm and uniquely direct style that characterizes her work, Fallaci carefully examines the historic and political reasons that have led Europeans to vilify their own culture, consistently embrace anti-Americanism, and pander to every request from the increasingly powerful Muslim communities that populate the dying Old Continent. Her analysis does not leave much hope for the future of Europe, although she takes a far more optimistic position on her adoptive country, the United States (Fallaci currently lives in New York).

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The "sons of Allah," as Fallaci calls them, do not make a secret of their plans. A Catholic bishop recounted that, during an interfaith meeting in Turkey, a respected Muslim cleric told the crowd: "Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you. Thanks to our Islamic laws we will conquer you." But what really makes Fallaci's blood boil is the West's inability to even acknowledge this aggression. A large part of her book is dedicated to analyzing how the main European countries pander to the arrogant demands of radical Muslim organizations, how they are unable to defend their Jewish citizens from acts of Islamic militant violence (often blamed on neo-Nazis and almost never on the Muslim perpetrators, even when the evidence clearly proves otherwise), and said countries' unwillingness to be proud of their cultures and identities.

You can contact the public prosecutor Armando Grasso at this mail address: Armando Grasso, tribunale.bergamo@giustizia.it Greetings from Italy.

Posted by tim at May 26, 2005 12:38 PM

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