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Posted on 05/19/2008 7:01:14 PM PDT by 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.”
Wow! I can’t believe this. What a statement and a half.
Say, Mayor Montagnoli - loosen your turban.
Worth noting that she addressed this to the previous Pope, not the current one.
Great news ping
I like it. Oriana knew the score.
HMMM...............Europe waking up send the US some strong Italian Coffee I think we need a jolt.
BTTT
Lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University and Columbia University.
Prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, she was shot three times by Mexican armed forces, but managed to survive.
Spent the last years of her life in New York fighting against breast cancer, but decided to die in her native Florence (September 2006).
Wrote a series of critical and controversial books about Islam and Arab culture, most notably "La rabbia e l'orgoglio" (The Rage and The Pride, 2001).
Italian author and journalist interviewing many political leaders and international celebrities such as Henry Kissinger, Lech Walesa, Willy Brandt, Federico Fellini, Golda Meir, Xiaoping Deng and Sean Connery. She was the first woman from a Western county, who was allowed to interview Ayatollah Khomeini.
Reporter and war correspondent known as a tenacious interviewer. Among her subjects: Yasser Arafat, Henry Kissinger, Ayatollah Khomeini, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and Muammar Gadaffi.
Joined the anti-fascist Resistance as a teen.
Was wounded during student protests against the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico.
Former war correspondent in Vietnam.
Journalist.
Has a sister.
Highly successful and controversial Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer.
As a young journalist, Fallaci interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities, including Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lech Walesa, Willy Brandt, Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Omar Al-Khafaji, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr., Xiaoping Deng, Cao Ky Nguyen, Yasser Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Archbishop Makarios, Golda Meir, Van Thieu Nguyen, Haile Selassie and Sean Connery.
Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for an Italian newspaper in 1950. Starting in 1967, she worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam, the Middle East, and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine L'Europeo, and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and magazines.
During the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, Fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by Mexican armed forces.
During her infamous 1972 interview with Henry Kissinger, she got him to agree that the Vietnam War was a "useless war" and compare himself to "the cowboy who leads the wagon train by riding ahead alone on his horse." Kissinger later wrote that it was "the single most disastrous conversation I have ever had with any member of the press."
Twice received the St. Vincent Prize for journalism, as well as the Bancarella Prize in 1971 and the Viareggio Prize in 1979. She received a D.Litt. from Columbia College in Chicago. She lectured at the University of Chicago, Yale University, Harvard University, and Columbia University. Her early writings have been translated into 21 languages.
Was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The Los Angeles Times once described her as "the journalist to whom virtually no world figure would say no."
Went to Hollywood in her early 20s, where she wrote about stars such as Clark Gable. She published her first book in 1954, "The Seven Sins of Hollywood." Orson Welles, who had become a friend, wrote the preface.
Her uncle was famed Italian journalist Bruno Fallaci.
Received much criticism in her later years for writing about what she called the Muslim invasion of Europe and Islamic assault on Western values. However, she also won praise in some quarters for daring to articulate the visceral fears that Europeans and Americans confronted.
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."
Thanks! Wow!
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.
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Sweet. If anyone deserved this Fallaci did. The multicultis are still agonizing over how rude she was to speak the bald truth about Islam. She was slightly ruder, and braver, than that. She once threw a burqa in Khomenei’s face.
My favorite book, too, and we both live in New Jersey!
I have been thinking about the story whose title I believe was “The Thing that has no Name” ever since I first read it at about age 19. And that was a lotta years ago. His travel book from the mid 60s AN AREA OF DARKNESS, still resonates with me. I had never read such elegant prose.
My Dream Newspaper of the 21st Century would feature a front-page story like this every day.It would be heaven.
BRAVO!
I think we’ve misjudged the Italians fighting spirit due to WWII —> the Fascists never really understood why Italians didn’t want to fight: Mussolini chose the wrong enemies and the wrong allies. Italians had distrusted the Austrians and GErmans for centuries, while they loved Americans (tons of Italian immigrants) and the upper classes loved to imitate the English. The only enemy they chose correctly was the French who robbed Nice and Marseilles from Italy in the 19th century.
Persia, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Iraq,Yemen, the list goes on....
An incredible woman
Orianna in her younger days. Looks like from when she was a war correspondent
Edward R. Murrow, this lady has two more testicles than you did.
I needed this good news.
Fallaci is smiling.
I think I need to travel to Verona and spend some big tourist dollars there.
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