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2006-09-15 Europe
Oriana Fallaci (77) has passed away in Florence (Italy)
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Posted by JFM 2006-09-15 06:35|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11144 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This lady was very courageous and way ahead of the rest of us in pointing out the Muzzie menace and the danger it was becoming to Europe. I think she pointed this out way back in the 1970's. Most were too fat and happy to listen.
Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-15 10:39||   2006-09-15 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Here's an English link.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-15 10:51||   2006-09-15 10:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Truely sad news. God bless her.
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-09-15 11:12||   2006-09-15 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 The death of a great woman of principle. She did an interview once with the Arafish. Her description of his physical appearance alone spoke volumes on him.

Very intense and intelligent woman. She was an unappreciated treasure of Italy, prodding and scolding Italy to do the right thing in confronting the danger of Islam in their country. They gave her nothing but grief for her efforts.

Well, she lived a full and meaningful life, and contributed much to the world. I hope that the world as a whole appreciates it someday.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-09-15 11:12||   2006-09-15 11:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Rest in Peace, Ms Fallaci.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-09-15 11:36||   2006-09-15 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Rest in peace, Oriana. Thank you for all you did.
Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-09-15 11:37||   2006-09-15 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 How lovely that she was able to go home to die. After all that fuss about arresting her for insulting Islam, I'd thought she would live out her last days in her New York City apartment.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-15 12:40||   2006-09-15 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 She told the truth. I cannot eulogize her with anything more noble than that.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-15 13:21||   2006-09-15 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 May one of my favorite uppity women of all time rest in peace. She will be missed.
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-15 22:56|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]  2006-09-15 22:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Union of Italian Muslims, launched a lawsuit against Fallaci charging that "some of the things she said in her book The Force of Reason are offensive to Islam." Smith's attorney, Matteo Nicoli, cited a phrase from the book that refers to Islam as "a pool that never purifies."
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This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Fallaci, Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.




Posted by RD 2006-09-15 22:59||   2006-09-15 22:59|| Front Page Top

#11 I am saddened to hear this news.

What a great woman. She had the power to open the people's eyes and she did for some.

Rest in peace Oriana, at least you will be spared watching the Islamic horrors that will no doubt be swamping your old Italy before too much longer.
Posted by anon1 2006-09-15 22:59||   2006-09-15 22:59|| Front Page Top

#12 From her Interview with History, during an exchange with that sorry bastard Arafart.

Abu Ammar, you always invoke the the unity of the Arab world. But you know quite well that not all the Arab states are willing to go to war for Palestine and that, for those already at war, a peace accord is possible, even desirable. Even Nasser said so. If such an accord comes about, as even Russia hopes, what will you do?

We will not accept it. Never! We will continue to wage war against Israel alone, until we reacquire Palestine. The end of Israel is the goal of our struggle, and it permits neither compromises nor mediation. The points of this struggle, whether our friends like it or not, will remain fixed in the principles that we enumerated in 1965 with the creation of Al Fatah. First: revolutionary violence is the only system for liberating the land of our fathers; second: the goal of this violence is to liquidate Zionism in all of its forms, political, economic, and military, and to chase it away from Palestine forever; third: our revolutionary action must be independent of any control by party or state; fourth: this action will be of long duration. We know the intentions of some Arab leaders: to resolve the conflict with a peace accord. When this happens, we will oppose it.

Conclusion: you don't want at all the peace that everyone hopes for.

No! 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.

Compare and contrast to the pathetic "journalists" we have today (Rather, Wallace, Walters). They only wish they were half as good.
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-15 23:13|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]  2006-09-15 23:13|| Front Page Top

#13 a truth-teller in her later life who suffered for it. RIP
Posted by Frank G 2006-09-15 23:16||   2006-09-15 23:16|| Front Page Top

#14 The Europeans should honor her memory by heeding her warning.
Posted by DMFD 2006-09-15 23:32||   2006-09-15 23:32|| Front Page Top

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