Piazza Oriana Fallaci al posto della moschea (Oriana Fallaci Plaza replaces mosque in Italy)

La Republica (Italy) ^ | may 18, 2008 | Repubblica

[PapaBear3625]

[translation thanks to Gates of Vienna]

Oriana Fallaci Square in place of the mosque

VERONA — Goodbye mosque. In its place, Oriana Fallaci Square.

This decision was taken by the committee of Oppeano (Verona, Italy), where yesterday morning a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed. In its place, the Municipality will create a public square named after the writer of The Rage and the Pride, which promoted a bitter campaign against Islam.

The decision to raze the structure which had been opened by ONLUS [translator’s note: Organizzazione Non Lucrativa di Utilita’ Sociale, a non-profit registered Italian charity] “For the success of Muslims”, was taken by the municipal administration, which acquired the area for €70,000 in order to transform it into an open area for parking and green space.

“My citizens did not want this takeover,” explained the mayor, Alessandro Montagnoli, deputy of the Lega Nord, “above all because it could create problems of practicability and cohabitation with the residents.”

[PapaBear3625]

For those who don't know who Oriana Fallaci was, her wiki entry:

Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929[1] - 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.

She has interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as the Dalai Lama, Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Archbishop Makarios III, Golda Meir, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Haile Selassie, Sean Connery and Lech Walesa.

After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of articles and books critical of Islam and Arabs that aroused both support as well controversies and accusations of racism and Islamophobia. In The Force of Reason and The Rage and the Pride she states and articulates the threats to the western culture posed by the Islamofascism and the imposition of Islamic (shariah) law over civil law.

[the invisib1e hand]

VERONA — Goodbye mosque. In its place, Oriana Fallaci Square.

This is almost too incredibly excellent for words. I almost need to pinch myself.

[PA Engineer]

Fantastic and fitting.

[12Gauge687]

Bellisima!

[livius]

Definitely great news!

[Ben Chad]

Hope is alive for Italy.

[indcons]

Wow! Great news....bump.

Wish the same thing happens with Al Aqsa. Demolish that foreign structure and return the Temple Mount to the Jews.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’ve never much appreciated Italian culture but, I’m starting to love their attitude.

[Boagenes]

This woman was a lioness. Fearless. Ferocious. Uncompromising. One of the most admirable women of this or the previous century.

She would be happy to know a mosque was bulldozed to create a park named after her. And I am simply tickled. Well done, my Italian friends.

[1rudeboy]

Addio moschea. Al suo posto, piazza Oriana Fallaci.

How romantic!

[1rudeboy]

Hope is alive for Italy.

Anyone remember that guy (sorry, I don't remember the specifics), who said "I'll show you how an Italian dies" when that jihadist murdered him?

[netmilsmom]

YES!!

[indcons]

I agree but let us not forget another equally courageous woman in the battle against the terrorist cult, Islam - the great Bat Ye’or.

On a slightly tangential note - I wish more people would also recognize the efforts of Sir VS Naipaul - who has probably written the most balanced and even handed accounts of life in Islamic societies.

[Clemenza]

VS Naipul is an international treasure. Interestingly enough, my fave of his is “Miguel Street”, one of his earlier books about growing up in Trinidad.

[fishhound]

Thanks for posting this; I have never heard of her. This is great.

[353FMG]

“This is almost too incredibly excellent for words. I almost need to pinch myself.”

I don’t think that something like this could ever happen here in the US. Just imagine the ACLU getting violent fits.

[fishhound]

This decision was taken by the committee of Oppeano (Verona, Italy), where yesterday morning a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed.

a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed.
a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed.
a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed.
a building used by Muslims for prayer was bulldozed.

Just in case anyone missed it.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks, indcons, wonderful news, almost too good to be true. The tide has turned in Italy:

The country that once had the biggest communist party in Western Europe no longer has a single Marxist in parliament. Nor any Greens.

LINK.

[353FMG]

“One of the most admirable women of this or the previous century.”

Are you trying to tell us that she had nothing in common with Hitlery?

[Travis McGee]

Very brave woman.