This is hilarious. We have a bunch of ultra-right wing crazies (mbig, Grant, Gardener etc) leaping on a band-wagon that none of them are familiar with all because she hitched herself to the Islamophobic cause. She began her career as a liberal journalist but trotted towards the right after her unfortunate (and significantly misadventurous exploits in Mexico).
She is moderately well-known in Europe but only because of her extremist views and anti-semitic later writings. This is a shame because earlier in her career her writings on Greece, Vietnam and Iran were genuinely courageous. In fact, her DP fan-club would be horrified to associate themselves with her most anti-American writings in L'Europa during the late-Seventies.
Fact is, bless her, that she struggled with mental illness for most of her adult life and this both ennobled and detracted from what she wrote. What she wrote was occasionally sublime. I like her enormously for her interviews with the likes of Ted Kennedy, Qadafi and the bastard Khomeini. Trouble was, she kind of lost it when her loathing of Islam pushed her into the arms of Ratzinger, the kind of religious demagogue she would have trashed so effectively in her pre-illness years.
Fallaci at her best was wonderful, at her worst she embarrassed herself. "I don't know why those bastards (Shi'a clergy) make me crazy when the fags in purple (Papal curia) don't. I can't explain everything, can I?"