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I admired La Fallaci back in the '60s, even when I disagreed with her politics - she was honest and courageous. I hadn't realized she was still alive until the Rage and Fury essay came out online in October 2001. I still admire her courage and honesty. She's dead right about Islam.

When she gets phone calls threatening her life, she said, she lets them talk. "Then I say, ‘Do you know where it is your mother and your wife and your sister and your daughter are right in this moment? They are in a brothel of Beirut. And do you know what they’re doing? They are giving away their’—I don’t tell it to you, but I tell it to them—‘and you know to whom? To an American..."

Ouch. Knows how to insert knife and twist.

I hadn't realized she was still alive until the Rage and Fury essay came out online in October 2001.

I found what I believe is a complete copy at http://italian.about.com/library/fallaci/blfallaci01.htm, for anyone who wants to read it.

I was just flippping through the pages to see how large it was, and the following passage jumped out at me:

And finally we have Science, for God’s sake. A science that has understood a lot of diseases and that cures them. I am still alive, for now, thanks to our science. Not Mohammed’s. A science that has invented marvellous machines. The train, the car, the airplane, the spaceships with which we’ve gone to the Moon and Mars and soon will go who knows where. A science that has changed the face of this planet with electricity, the radio, the telephone, the TV, and by the way: is it true that the gurus of the left don’t want to say what I have just said?!? God, what pricks! They will never change.