Posted on 05/25/2005 3:57:07 PM PDT by Cornpone
ROME, May 24, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci will face trial for insulting Islam in her latest work, a court in northern Italy ruled Tuesday, May 24.
The court turned down a request by prosecutors to have the case, filed by the president of the Muslim Union of Italy, Adel Smith, thrown out, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
They magistrates now have until Thursday, May 26, to formally charge the controversial writer, infamous for her provocative style of writing.
Smith said Fallaci's last book "La forza della ragione," which translates as The Force of Reason, contains “words that are without doubt offensive toward Islam.”
The 74-year-old writer, who lives in New York, wrote that Europe is turning into “an Islamic province, an Islamic colony” and that “to believe that a good Islam and a bad Islam exist goes against all reason.”
The lawyer for the Muslim Union, Ugo Fanuzzi, said she would have to answer first to the charge of insulting a faith, but he did not exclude that she could face charges of inciting hatred of religions.
Polemic
Fallaci was sued in 2002 over her anti-Islam book “Rage and Pride.”
Two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Fallaci published her strongly pro-American and anti-Islam book “Rage and Pride” in which she ridiculed some verses of the Noble Qur’an.
She was sued in 2002 over the provocative book and accused of violating anti-racist laws. The case was dismissed on a technicality.
Fallaci was criticized over her 9/11 polemic by anti-racist organizations and famed Italian journalist Tiziano Terzani, who wrote an open letter to her in Corriere della Sera.
Islam has been the subject of a series of derogatory movies, writings, comments and TV shows and even racist attacks from army officers and politicians across Europe and the United States.
But thanks to an immediate and astute action from the leaders of the Muslim minorities, many of the offenders have swallowed their anti-Islam remarks and sometimes apologized.
After having his BBC1 chat show suspended following an intense lobbying by the British Muslim minority, Robert Kilroy-Silk regretted racist comments he made in a syndicated Sunday Express column.
The Chicago-based syndicated radio commentator Paul Harvey, the most listened-to radio personality in the US, once claimed that Islam “encourages killing.”
But after receiving hundreds of angry messages from Muslims, he backtracked on the defamatory comments, praising Islam as a “religion of peace.”
William Boykin, the US Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, had also claimed that Muslims’ God “was an idol,” and that “our spiritual enemy will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus.”
Shortly after his comments came to surface, the White House was besieged by demands to reprimand the highly-decorated general.
Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) presented a resolution urging President George W. Bush to “clearly censure or reassign” Boykin.
Following intense pressures from Muslim advocacy groups, the general apologized, arguing his remarks “had been taken out of context.”
"But after receiving hundreds of angry messages from Muslims, he backtracked on the defamatory comments, praising Islam as a “religion of peace.”
I thought that Paul Harvey was one of the more courageous radio commentators. Very disappointed in him. It's a good thing that there is a Michael Savage. Where have all the good men gone?
This thread has a chance to be pulled as soon as someone starts accusing others of hatred on this thread.
No! No! No!!!!
Oriana Fallaci will never take back anything she has written about the scrofulous cult of islam!
I keep her splendid book "The Rage And The Pride" in a place of honor in my library.
Oriana will NOT fold before the sickness of political correctness...this abomination coming out of Italy is nothing but the craven fear of these fools.
Fallaci will never bend to this mental derangement.
Yes I understand. "Truth" these days, is classified as "hate speech". I just wonder how CAIR, gets away with it (sigh).
I don't understand how someone could insult it more.
I don't even think it's worthy of a capital "I".
Is it Possible that there is a reason for that?
Are there not consequences for one's actions?
When legislation has to be passed to prevent someone from speaking out against something, shouldn't we question WHY it is necessary. If what they are being accused of isn't true, then why can't they just present the evidence to prove the accusations are false?
Remember Theo van Gogh? He had the audacity to expose the mistreatment of Muslim women and he was murdered for it. What are they afraid of? Is the Truth that threatening to them?
Darkness will be exposed by the light. You can pass all the laws you want...it won't change the truth. You can bully people to say something is "peaceful," but that doesn't make it true.
Hate crime laws are just another way to try and force political correctness on us. The Truth is still the truth. No laws can ever change that!
CAIR gets away with it because they are supported by a fifth column of collaborators.
Well my friend , again, I call for watching all the Mosques, all the time. Put the microscope on them. The same thing that is being preached in Saudi Mosques, are being preached here in America. We must act, or not. These are our only 2 choices. Live, or die. It is OUR choice.
Jeff
"The Truth is still the truth. No laws can ever change that!"
I say, "Thank you jan in Colorado! We must all stand for the truth about Islam and any other threat to democracy, freedom and the United States."
Butchery and murder are their main means of intimidation. Conquest is the goal. The "new caliphate," (which I won't even dignify by capitalizing) is their entire agenda. It has always been the objective of this blood and death cult to rule the world. They envision a world patterned after the Taliban's Afghanistan, and the "avant guard" are already here in America and well-entrenched, using the liberal fools and the ACLU to their purposes.
I wonder if the fools think that they will be spared, if this "new caliphate" succeeds. No. They'll end up headless, along with all non-muslims.
Beware, America. Beware. The enemy is here......and they've been on the march since the 1960's.
Char
That judge & the Moslem Union should all go Fanuzzi.
Just checking.
In The Force of Reason Fallaci takes aim at the many attacks and death threats she received after the publication of The Rage and the Pride. Ms. Fallaci begins by identifying herself with one Master Cecco, the author of a heretical book who was burnt at the stake during the Inquisition seven centuries ago on account of his beliefs, and proceeds with a rigorous analysis of the burning of Troy and the creation of a Europe that, to her judgment, is no longer her familiar homeland but rather a place best called Eurabia, a soon-to-be colony of Islam (with Italy as its stronghold). Ms. Fallaci explores her ideas in historical, philosophical, moral, and political terms, courageously addressing taboo topics with sharp logic.
If I were this lady, I would write the court a letter and tell the judge and the court to go screw themselves. An Italian court has no jurisdiction over an American citizen living in the US. She has broken no US laws.
How's that?
Here is a discussion of Hate Speech Laws from the first lawsuit on Fallachi's Rage and Pride. She beat that one. Let's hope she beats this one too.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-zabarkes062602.asp
And this was not prosecuted as Hate Speech:
"April 3: the front page of the national daily newspaper La Stampa carried a cartoon by Giorgio Forattini as a comment on the occupation of Bethlehem. At the sight of an Israeli tank a baby Jesus in a crèche asks: “Are they going to kill me for a second time?” A heated debate followed in the papers. Many resentful letters were sent to the editor and numerous Catholic readers filed protests. The president of the Union of Jewish Communities, Amos Luzzatto, strongly criticised the return of the accusation of deicide, cancelled by the Second Vatican Council. The director of La Stampa distanced himself from the author of the cartoon. The same day someone wrote “Israelis Murderers” on the walls of a synagogue in Siena."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/report_italy.html
Hate speech is a convenient means of enforcing political correctness,and supporting leftist and pro-Muslim causes, via selective enforcement.
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