Friday, January 31, 2003
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci, journalist, correspondent, interviewer, and author, spends most of her time in Mahattan. Her book, The Rage and the Pride, has sold over 1 million copies in her native Italy and over half a million at the top of Europe's best seller lists. And yet, we've never heard much of it in North America. Ms. Fallaci's rage concerns the West's blindness to the threat that Islam respresents to our society.
"The clash between us and them is not a military clash. Oh, no. It is a cultural one, a religious one. And our military victories do not solve the offensive of Islamic terrorism. On the contrary, they encourage it. They exacerbate it, they multiply it. The worst is still to come.”
The Muslim world is a culture which has produced and produces only religion. There is no room for freedom or democracy as we know it. A warning from Ms. Fallacis ... "If we continue to stay inert, they will become always more and more. They will demand always more and more, they will vex and boss us always more and more. ’Til the point of subduing us. Therefore, dealing with them is impossible. Attempting a dialogue, unthinkable. Showing indulgence, suicidal. And he or she who believes the contrary is a fool.”
Oriana Fallaci, journalist, correspondent, interviewer, and author, spends most of her time in Mahattan. Her book, The Rage and the Pride, has sold over 1 million copies in her native Italy and over half a million at the top of Europe's best seller lists. And yet, we've never heard much of it in North America. Ms. Fallaci's rage concerns the West's blindness to the threat that Islam respresents to our society.
"The clash between us and them is not a military clash. Oh, no. It is a cultural one, a religious one. And our military victories do not solve the offensive of Islamic terrorism. On the contrary, they encourage it. They exacerbate it, they multiply it. The worst is still to come.”
The Muslim world is a culture which has produced and produces only religion. There is no room for freedom or democracy as we know it. A warning from Ms. Fallacis ... "If we continue to stay inert, they will become always more and more. They will demand always more and more, they will vex and boss us always more and more. ’Til the point of subduing us. Therefore, dealing with them is impossible. Attempting a dialogue, unthinkable. Showing indulgence, suicidal. And he or she who believes the contrary is a fool.”
