Oriana Fallaci: A New Book

The Autonomist - ASAP ^ | 4/7/04 | Reginald Firehammer

[Hank Kerchief]

 

 

4/7/04

Oriana Fallaci:

A New Book

Oriana Fallaci has a published a new Book: The Force of Reason (La Forza della Ragione)

"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony," the book says. "In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism."

If this book is anything like The Rage and The Pride it is a must read. I cannot say enough good about this courageous woman.

She is one of my real life heroes.

Here are links to two more reviews:

A Colony Of Islam.

Author throws new force of words at Islam.

If you read Italian, here is a source for the book: La Forza della ragione.

(I do not believe there is an English version of this book yet. As soon as it is available I will announce it in this column.)

If you haven't read it yet, get The Rage and The Pride here. You won't be sorry.

If you would like to learn more about Oriana:

• Roman Candle Oriana Fallaci sheds heat and light..

• Oriana's Screed.

• Oriana Fallaci Journalist, Interviewer and Author.

• Rage and Pride Original Essay, September 29, 2001.

• Unquiet on the Western Front.

• AJC Publication - Oriana Fallaci on Anti-Semitism.

• A Sermon for the West.

[Hank Kerchief]

Oriana get's it. An extraordinary lady.

[Hank Kerchief]

PHILOSOPHY PING

(If you want on or off this list please freepmail me.)

Hank

[samtheman]

I'm buying this book.

[Hank Kerchief]

I'm buying this book.

In English or Italian. If in English, can you tell me where? Please!

Hank

[Dolphy]

I bought several copies of The Rage and the Pride for various friends who simply didn't grasp the threat of Islamic terrorism and rule. Yes, there are many books that speak to the issue but not with the emotion and first person experiences that shake you from the comfort of academic intellectualizing.

Thanks for posting this.

[Cicero]

There's nothing at Amazon yet. They have several of her earlier books, including one in Italian, but don't yet list "La Forza della Ragione."

I'm sure this will be a powerful book. The Rage & the Pride is magnificent.

[Fiddlstix]

[ex-snook]

Wonder if Oriana is for birth control, abortions? Maybe Italy and Europe need immigrants for cheap labor and to pay for their social welfare, just like us.

[Graymatter]

Lord, is she still around? I last read her stuff in the 60's, a collection titled "Gli Antipatici."

[Reactionary]

Thanks for posting this. I'll be sure to buy a copy of the book when it becomes available.

[samtheman]

I'm going to start with the first one. Which I didn't read yet.

Then, hopefully, the new one will come out in English.

The Rage and The Pride

[samtheman]

From the Amazon page on Rage&Pride:

From Publishers Weekly
Noted Italian journalist Fallaci (Interview with History; etc.) is capable of hard-hitting, trenchant social criticism, but she fails to accomplish that in this impassioned but sloppy post-September 11 critique, which has been a bestseller in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Fallaci only aggravates her lack of rigorous thinking by translating the work herself, resulting in a clumsy text that appears not to have been edited or proofread by a fluent English speaker. (Whatever resonance "cicada"-her choice term for the "so-called intellectuals" whom she addresses-has in Italian fails to translate into English.) After a melodramatic preface in which Fallaci congratulates herself on her courage in speaking the truth (and in her defense, apparently there have been efforts to ban the book in France), she lights into the European, and especially Italian, "cicadas" who felt that, on September 11, 2001, America got what she had coming to her and who, in the name of political correctness, fail to condemn the "Reverse Crusade" being waged by Islamic zealots like Osama bin Laden. But Fallaci's love for America, her adopted home, and her critique of European intellectuals' perverse contempt for it, is laced with a bile that may lead readers to suspect her of anti-Arab bias-a possibility she is all to aware of, repeatedly defending herself against the charge of racism. Fallaci's "Italy for Italians" diatribe, her ugly portrait of Muslim immigrants as invading and violating her native Florence ("Terrorists, thieves, rapists. Ex-convicts, prostitutes, beggars. Drug-dealers, contagiously ill"), her denial that there is a moderate Islam, will not sit well with American readers, who may wonder why this small book has, in the publisher's words, "caused a turmoil never registered in decades" in Italy, France and Spain.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Lib Establishment doesn't like it.

[miss marmelstein]

Hey, get with the program! This 70-something lady recently published a bestseller in America & Europe about 9/11. All while battling cancer. She was always a maverick and always will be. (I,too, read all her books in the 60s & 70s).

[litehaus]

Bump for an old gal who is not well known enough(Tho FR folks probably know her)

[Bennett46]

I can tell the "reviewer" from Amazon that Fallaci's view of Islam sat VERY well with this American reader.

[don-o]

Bump for a mark.

Thanks Hank

[an italian]

I'm italian and... Let me say a thing... This book is simply perfect!!! Fantastic like all the others books by Oriana!!! She's the best! In Italy we have a lot of discussion about her book... But this is different from "The rage and the pride"... A lot of more people now stands with Oriana! And we must thank her 'cause she has the courage to say always the true, even when some "son of Allah" decide that she has to die! Oriana will live forever! Oriana is the West!

[goldstategop]

And a great journalist. Most people think of old age as the twilight of their years but its astonishing Oriana Fallaci has written back to end, two great books in the years since 9/11. One is touched by her dedication of The Force Of Reason to the victims of that day. She really tells at length why Europe is no longer the summit of the West in this new millenium.

[an italian]

I don't know if here someone has read the interview by George Gurely on NY observer... It's... perfect! Read it... So you can understand how kind of person is Oriana Fallaci! And the motives because in Italy she has a lot of friends but a lot of enemies too! She's... "scratching"!