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.”
Ping...
The Koran is about as "noble" as a pile of dogshit.
Allah sucks @#$%^ in hell. Now that's some hate speech for ya!
The writer is correct, islam is pure evil, and not of God! If you take the time to do a root word study of allah, you will find it is a god of the moon! The God I serve is a God of the universe. Also my God is a God of grace and forgiveness. Not so with islam!
Quite right, my friend. Actually, I think the "noble" Koran could better be compared to a pile of pigshit. But that's just my take on it...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1407709/posts
She's dying of cancer already and has nothing to lose.
HATE CRIME! HATE CRIME!
"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill
Or maybe: Allah has horns and cloven hooves!
Europe continues to destroy itself
Don't ask me, I don't understand it either...
Cancer indeed. What a wonderful day it will be when Mecca, the center of this hideous ontological growth, is treated to the soft blue glow of radiotherapy.
Why should it be pulled?
After Europe, guess who is next.......
Jeff
The truth hurts some people.
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