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.”
You guys are funny. I personally think it is about time someone came out with the Koran brand Toilet Paper.
>"You guys are funny. I personally think it is about time someone came out with the Koran brand Toilet Paper."<
I dunno...
I think "mein kur'anf" is already a Charmin trademark, isn't it...
They market it as their "alternate brand" to a bunch of really tough a$$h**s!
A.A.C.
"When you're dealing with really tough sh*t, "mein kur'anf" wipes everything out!"
There is no way to be "offensive to Islam", because Islam isn't a personality.
In any case, I wholeheartedly agree -- "hate speech" is just a tool of the single party state advocates of the "left" (which is identical with the fascist "right"), and all such ninny laws have to be swept off the books. They are an obvious violation of the First Amendment. The First Amendment isn't protected by restricting speech.
well said, and thanks for the ping.
CONSTIPATED? TRY KORAN WIPES FOR THE REALLY TOUGH SHIITE!
(you can't humiliate islam, not while islam is doing as much as it can to humiliate itself.)
You have that right. I'm going to buy a copy today to add to my long list of references in my profile.
I actually purchased a copy of that film-in addition to his look at the profound policy failure of UNWRA policy as it concerns refugees from the Arab-Israeli wars-after the viewing of The Road to Jenin.
Aside from serving as a devastating critique of the libelous campaign organized on behalf of the worldwide anti-Israel cause, it's also a wonderful portrait of the bravery and compassion that characterize ordinary soldiers serving on the frontlines of the IDF's War on Terror.
Putting aside the absolutely riveting documentary footage, Pierre Rehov also manages to create an engrossing plot, and a style that captivates his audience.
It's a shame that millions of Americans have been exposed to the patent falsehoods peddled by Michael Moore-who's essentially a paid propagandist-while being denied the opportunity to watch this work of art.
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
Here is an interesting concept. The NAZIs, believing in their own superiority, still expected people to resist. After all, this is what any man with an iota of honor would do. They just didn't expect them to win. The Islamics are even more outraged when you resist their brutal take overs. They are even lower then the Nazis.
Faisel al-Husseini-the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem-was Der Fuhrer's point-man in the Balkans.
LOL! I think you have a winner there Fred. ;o)
So Italy doesn't believe in freedom of speech. Got it.
You just insulted dog----. (joke)
Big slobbering German Shepherd greeting to you, my friends. Keep the Faith! WOOF!!!!
read my post #43 (heh-heh!)
Got it. Good one.
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