The prize ALWAYS goes to whoever is the most shrill antiAmerican.
This year they should give it to either the Iranians or Osama bin Ladin.
"They" have infiltrated every foundation [as well as every aspect of our society] and have perverted everything they touch to reflect "their" hard left ideology. Sad.
The prizes for Peace and Lit have been more to build a case than to honor achievement.
Didn't Nobel feel guilty for inventing dynamite or something, so he created these awards?
whoah, dude. the harder science awards are pretty legit. don't confuse them with the Peace prize.
Worthless? At least half a million € would come handy for me. But the rest of the world always seems to have the better antiamericanisms. Oh well, I'll try roulette.
Fallaci, 75, has been fighting the good fight since 1944, when she joined the Italian anti-fascist resistance at age 14, and she has spent most of her life combating and exposing tyrants and murderers from Mussolini and Hitler to Stalin, as well as modern-day oppressors. In recent years, she has turned her acerbic pen on the likes of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Osama bin Laden, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Life has not been easy for the veteran war correspondent, who has survived serious wounds during her long career, is currently suffering from cancer, and is the target of recurring death threats. Absurdly, in her home country's politicized court system, Fallaci is also facing three years in prison if convicted on "hate speech" charges for her strong criticism of radical Islamist ideology and terrorism.
The political prosecution arose out of Fallaci's 2002 book, The Rage and the Pride, in which she describes Europe's fatal passivity in the face of violence and intimidation. The fact that Fallaci's act of writing is considered a crime -- while the death threats she received after the book was published remain uninvestigated -- is a revealing commentary on the ideological nature of Continental "justice." In her latest book, The Force of Reason, Fallaci takes aim at the perpetrators of those attacks and threats.
Addressing the "hate speech" charges, Fallaci told the audience at the Taylor award ceremony that in fact she was proud to have expressed her loathing for those who would destroy Western civilization. "Yes, I do hate the bin Ladens and the Zarqawis," she said. "I do hate the bastards who burn churches in Europe. I hate the Chomskys and Moores and Farrakhans who sell us to the enemy. I hate them as I used to hate Mussolini and Hitler. For the cause of freedom, this is my sacrosanct right."
The Italian firebrand accused politicians from both the Left and the Right of complicity in the "abuse of democracy, demagogic egalitarianism, denial of merit, tyranny of the majority, and lack of self-discipline" that have debilitated Europe and threaten its survival.
Thus far, Fallaci's warnings against the global jihad threat have gone largely unheeded in Europe and have turned her into a pariah on a continent where appeasement and capitulation appear to be the only acceptable norms. But verbal abuse and threats of violence have neither stilled her voice nor refuted her cogent arguments.
In the twilight of a long and indispensable life, Oriana Fallaci deserves all the honors that are coming her way.