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July 24, 2005: I've said it before and I'll say it again - Oriana Not Arianna
In the wake of the London bombings, who better than La Fallaci to focus our minds? In the face of her own terminal illness, she confronts the illness of Europe as no one else. Thanks to Mystery Achievement blog for offering a translation of Oriana's latest from Corriere della Serra. Part One begins:
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."
Right on, sister! Oriana not Arianna. Part Two here.
Kathianne said:I've read her books, they are a warning in the dark:
http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/07/ive_said_it_bef.php
USViking said:I have a book of her old interviews, and she is
one tough dame.
Henry Kissinger called his experience with her
the "single most disastrous interview" he ever gave.
She also interviewed Khomenei, and was required
by his staff to wear a head scarf. She complained
about it to him first thing at the start of the
interview. He told her she could remove it, and
she threw it on the floor, calling it a "Stupid medieval rag".
Amen, baby!
Dark and foolish PC multicultural outlook by you.ThomasPaine said:dark and foolish European outlook.
USViking said:Dark and foolish PC multicultural outlook by you.
Wise and realistic Western outlook by Fallaci.
Kathianne said:Did you see his caption?
