[Cincinna]

Oriana Falacci's book will be published in the US shortly. It is already # 14 on Amazon. This is a courageous woman. Her freedom of speech, and freedom of the press should be defended by all Americans. Shame on France and Italy for making book burning legal. Savanarola? Hitler? Next, it will be a crime to read a book.

[handy old one]

Next, it will be a crime to read a book.

It is in school. The bible!!

I want to read this book sound like something I would read and enjoy.

[Question_Assumptions]

On the Inernet, people in the UK and Europe always used to argue that they didn't need to have freedom of speech and freedom of the press in their constitutions because they weren't in danger without them being spelled out...

[SittinYonder]

I see a certain irony that her lawyer's name is Bigot.

[Das Outsider]

Inciting racial hatred? Here's an idea: Go to downtown Paris wearing a sign that says, "I'm from Brooklyn!" See how many times you hear "Juif!" either whispered or said outright. Just wait until an iron fist takes over France in response to all of this garbage. Vichy II.

[martin_fierro]

A second author Wednesday went to trial in Paris in as many months on charges of inciting racial hatred for a book that has denigrating passages on Islam.
...
But her lawyer, Christophe Bigot, denounced the trial

OK, so he wouldn't have been my first choice as defense counsel in a racial hatred prosecution.

[Publius6961]

...Two others, including the Human Rights League, simply want disclaimers that its disparaging passages on Islam don't accurately reflect the Muslim religion.

Isn't that a juvenile attitude to take on a national level? Isn't "accuracy " a matter of opinion when describing primitive murderous behavior on a cultural level?

Are they really trying her on a 4 year old book or is this trial over her new book, The Force of Reason?

[Publius6961]

...Two others, including the Human Rights League, simply want disclaimers that its disparaging passages on Islam don't accurately reflect the Muslim religion.

Isn't that a juvenile attitude to take on a national level? Isn't "accuracy " a matter of opinion when describing primitive murderous behavior on a cultural level?

Are they really trying her on a 4 year old book or is this trial over her new book, The Force of Reason?

[Publius6961]

...Two others, including the Human Rights League, simply want disclaimers that its disparaging passages on Islam don't accurately reflect the Muslim religion.

Isn't that a juvenile attitude to take on a national level? Isn't "accuracy " a matter of opinion when describing primitive murderous behavior on a cultural level?

Are they really trying her on a 4 year old book or is this trial over her new book, The Force of Reason?

[Indy Pendance]

Read this, go to the link for the entire story.

Oriana Fallaci: Anger and Pride

[Steve_Seattle]

"When one finishes reading the book, one recognizes the right to kill any Muslim on the street," argued Hacen Taleb, the lawyer representing MRAP, in a statement to the court."

I've read the book and I've yet to kill any Muslims. But if I were a Muslim, I certainly might feel justified in killing "infidels" after reading the Koran. And IN FACT, NO Muslim has been killed by someone who has read Fallaci's book, but THOUSANDS have been killed by Muslims who have read the Koran and followed its mandate to kill the infidels. The wrong book is on trial in Italy.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Rage and Pride" is about three years old and is already available here. I think it's her knew book that isn't yet available in the USA (in English, that is).

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Proof positive that European society is degenerate. It hasn't been so bad since the third century.

[Darkwolf377]

I seem to recall this writer being heavily praised by certain liberals pre-9-11; I definitely recall her books being given lots of room in bookstores, as she could be seen as a feminist by those who choose to see everything in that way. Funny how I don't seem to see such attention from those corners these days.

[Steve_Seattle]

"inciting racial hatred"

Is that actually the charge? Islam is a religion, not a race, and a majority of Muslims worldwide are not Arabs.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The anti-racist associations argue otherwise.

All these groups exist specifically to fan the fires of racism. The left typically hides behind names that sound the opposite of what they are. Why the need to lie in everything they do? I don't suppose the The Society for the Advancement of Racism would do very well.

[Random Nonsense]

The body of Theo van Gogh lies alone on an Amsterdam street with 5 page notes written both in Arabic and Dutch.

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/320

[StatenIsland]

As far as I know, "The Rage and the Pride" is a post-9/11 essay that can be read here:

http://italian.about.com/library/fallaci/blfallaci01.htm

It is a wonderful essay.

[EternalHope]

I've read the book. She is quite articulate, and utterly unafraid to tell it like it is.

[weegee]

France. The nation that made 2 best sellers out of conspiracy books that the US launched a missile painted to resemble a plane into the Pentagon on 9/11.

[jwh_Denver]

France again??

Another page in France's "Brilliant Ideas".