"...This is what I write about Europe: "Identical [are our] faults, the cowardices, the hypocrisies. Identical the blindness, the deafness, the lack of wisdom, the masochism.... Identical the ignorance and the lack of leadership that favors the Muslim invasion.
Identical the fad of the Politically Correct that encourages it.
To believe me, you only have to observe the financial club you proudly call European Union. A club that only serves to impose the rhetorical nonsense called common currency ... to pay fabulous and undeserved salaries (tax free) to the members of its inept and useless Parliament."
"A club that shelters more than 15 million sons of Allah and God knows how many of their terrorists ... A club that fornicates like a whore with the Arab countries and fills its pockets with their filthy petrodollars. The same petrodollars with which the Saudi Uncle Scrooges buy our ancient palaces, our banks, our commercial and industrial firms. A club, moreover, that dares to speak of cultural similarities with the Middle East.... [You] chatterers, you mentally retarded. Where the hell is the cultural similarity with the Middle East, you cretins, you silly clowns?!? At Mecca? At Bethlehem, at Gaza, at Damascus, at Beirut?!? At Cairo, at Tripoli, at Nairobi, at Tehran, at Baghdad, at Kabul?!?
"When I was very young, about 17 or so, I longed so much for a united Europe! I came from a war in which the [Europeans] had pitilessly slaughtered each other: remember? The damned Second World War. Plunged up to his neck in the brand-new struggle, my father preached the European Federalism.... He held rallies, he spoke to the crowds, he chanted: "Europe! Europe! We must make Europe!'"
"But this frustrating and disappointing and Insignificant financial club ... [with] its sons of Allah who want to erase my civilization, this European Union, which chatters of Cultural-Similarities-with-the-Middle-East and meanwhile ignores my beautiful language, meanwhile sacrifices my national identity, is not the Europe I dreamed of when my father chanted, Europe-Europe.
It is not Europe. It is the suicide of Europe."
The great Oriana Fallaci (RIP). Right then. Right now.
About Islam, the EU, the West.
Part of a speech before the American Enterprise Institute on the eve of the publication of her book "The Rage and the Pride".
October 2002
How the West Was Won and How It Will Be Lost
also on the net as 'A Sermon for the West'
On the Contrary.It's very sad how once sensible and rational people can become unhinged in later life through illness and depression. Even Christopher Hitchens, born-again Islamophobe, recognised Fallaci's inability to write rationally about Islam.
And the rest of us Europeans didn't?......On the Contrary.
She (News to Alvin above who doesn't even Know who Fallaci/"he" Is/Was! as clearly Spud-meister doesn't either), fought as a partisan against Fascism in her youth during WW2, and Fought it all her life.
Still waiting for her muslim invasion. I can get in on the ground floor here for that camel dealership!Quite consistent to fight Islamo-Fascism. Not "unhinged" at all as she notes/connects ironically to more modern Europe herself in the excerp I posted.
She had started noting it many years before you called her "unhinged"; In famous Interviews with Kohmeini and Arafat.
And the other half dodginig senility?As I've said several times on this board and others, there is a 'Generation gap', with most posters being too young so have any personal sense of history or knowledge.
You shouldn't have made an idiotic post. You reap what you sow.At least andalublue had some sense of who she was and didn't make in Idiotic reply.
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"The great" Oriana wasn't that great if her warnings to Europe are unknown to Europeans.
"The great" Oriana wasn't that great if her warnings to Europe are unknown to Europeans.
As you can see on this thread, and certainly elsewhere, there is a great deal of denial going on in Western Europe and the point that Mbig makes about younger Europeans is a a good one.
None of them had to fight for their freedom or national security. They know about the wars against Fascists and Nazis, of course, but its all history to them, not an ongoing process. They feel the battle has been won and they can all relax.
Further complicating the issue is that they don't know whether they are nationals first or Europeans first. Who do they fight for? I doubt there is one person living in Europe now who would fight and die for Europe. It's still little more than a concept, and any loyalty is only to that concept, not the reality.
Europe, because it has no direction and no sense of self, is ripe for the picking. Those who are arriving daily know it, as do those who are leaving. The rest will just muddle through, live in denail, and hope that if it gets really bad someone, somewhere, will come to their rescue.
It's very sad how once sensible and rational people can become unhinged in later life through illness and depression. Even Christopher Hitchens, born-again Islamophobe, recognised Fallaci's inability to write rationally about Islam.
Further complicating the issue is that they don't know whether they are nationals first or Europeans first. Who do they fight for? I doubt there is one person living in Europe now who would fight and die for Europe. It's still little more than a concept, and any loyalty is only to that concept, not the reality.
On the Contrary.
She (News to Alvin above who doesn't even Know who Fallaci/"he" Is/Was! as clearly Spud-meister doesn't either), fought as a partisan against Fascism in her youth during WW2, and Fought it all her life.
Quite consistent to fight Islamo-Fascism. Not "unhinged" at all as she notes/connects ironically to more modern Europe herself in the excerp I posted.
She had started noting it many years before you called her "unhinged"; In famous Interviews with Kohmeini and Arafat.
As I've said several times on this board and others, there is a 'Generation gap', with most posters being too young so have any personal sense of history or knowledge.
At least andalublue had some sense of who she was and didn't make in Idiotic reply.
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and beyond that, they don't have a clue as to what liberalism is at all. Somehow, they have arrived at the truly Orwellian position that their blind support for the most aggressively anti-liberal fanatics on the face of the earth is the sign of a true liberal.
Christopher Hitchens does not speak in the easy, simple-minded cliche's so common among those selling the politically correct pablum geared towards an audience of undereducated conformists, true. He speaks up for liberal values, instead.
He speaks up for certain liberal values but demands that we protect them using illiberal and imperialistic methods. Kind of defeats the point, in my book.
He speaks up for certain liberal values but demands that we protect them using illiberal and imperialistic methods. Kind of defeats the point, in my book.
Well, the very use of the recently-invented term "Islamo-Fascism" (was it Hitchens, Scardino, Safire or Cohen who first coined the term?) pretty much negates any claims to rationalism in my book. There is virtually no ideological or philosophical similarity between Islam and Fascism/Nazism. Putting the two terms together is just a crude rhetorical device that creates guilt by association.
Surely 'Coincidence' the planet's two most Islamic countries, Saudi Arabia and Iran ARE Fascist/Authoritarian Theocracies..."The most obvious points of comparison would be these:
Both movements are based on a Cult of murderous violence that exalts death and destruction and despises the life of the mind. ("Death to the intellect! Long live death!" as Gen. Francisco Franco's sidekick Gonzalo Queipo de Llano so pithily phrased it.)
Both are hostile to modernity (except when it comes to the pursuit of weapons), and both are bitterly nostalgic for past empires and lost glories.
Both are obsessed with real and imagined "humiliations" and thirsty for revenge.
Both are chronically infected with the toxin of anti-Jewish paranoia (interestingly, also, with its milder cousin, anti-Freemason paranoia).
Both are inclined to leader worship and to the exclusive stress on the power of one great book.
Both have a strong commitment to sexual repression—especially to the repression of any sexual "deviance"—and to its counterparts the subordination of the female and contempt for the feminine.
Both despise art and literature as symptoms of degeneracy and decadence;
Both burn books and destroy museums and treasures.[3]..
I agree.PS - It's also very revolting for Lefties to behave like this and then slander the memory of Miss Fellaci by going on about this deranged old woman who needs her pills.
Not only is it a disgusting personal attack but it's hypocrisy of the highest order.
When, for example, journalist Richard Littlejohn called Gordon Brown a retard, half the Left hit the roof. "How dare he insult both Gordon Brown and genuine retards like that", they say. What about dignity? What about feelings? What about rational arguments instead? People on medication are a no-go area they say.
But such is alright in the case of people not falling into line with politically-correct doctrine. It's open season, whoever you are. Even a mammoth mainstreamer like Nixon found himself for years at the receiving end of a concentrated hate campaign, years before Watergate, for daring to do things like crack down on Communism.
Leftists on here dislike me, presumably because I use post titles like Left Wing Vermin or tell uncomfortable truths about Michael Foot. I don't think they have much room for complaint.
http://images.google.com/images?um=...=isch:1&q=oriana+fallaci&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=21Perhaps the most brilliant paradigm-shattering interviewer of the 20th century, Oriana Fallaci has done her final interview—with herself:
Tough Italian Journalist Turns Eye on Self.ROME - Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist known for ruthlessly grilling her subjects, says she detests interviews but has granted one herself — to herself — because she is dying of cancer.
The Milan daily Corriere della Sera published the slim volume, “Oriana Fallaci Interviews Oriana Fallaci,” as a supplement to its newspaper Friday.
In the work, Fallaci, 74, asks herself why she agreed to the interview.
“Because death is on my back. Medicine has issued the sentence: `Lady, you cannot get better. You won’t get better,’” is the reply.
Fallaci’s battle with cancer began some 11 years ago. In the early 1990s, she had surgery for breast cancer. Her latest work indicates that cancer has recurred. “I had a tremendous pain in my lungs and in my trachea and in my esophagus, where the Alien has made his nest,” she says of her recent ailments. Fallaci writes that she stopped taking care of herself, including having medical tests and seeing oncologists, on Sept. 11, 2001, the day of the terror attacks against the United States.
She said she needed to spend all her time writing and translating two books that have since been published and which, in her typically blunt style, reflect scathingly on society, including the differences between Christian and Islamic culture.
The second of the two, “The Strength of Reason,” came out this spring. In it, Fallaci accuses the Roman Catholic Church of being too weak before the Muslim world, and Europe of selling itself to Islam “like a prostitute.” Two years earlier, her best-selling essay “The Rage and The Pride” drew accusations that Fallaci was inciting hatred against Muslims.
In her work published Friday, Fallaci, a former war correspondent, says, “The West, Europe, Italy, is sicker than I am.”
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