[Numbers Guy]

Gee, you think the American Library Association and the ACLU will be out front issuing press releases on this one? Or will they hold back because Fallaci said that Western civilization is superior to Islamic civilization and that means she's a hate speaker who deserves no protection.

[Drew68]

Oriana Fallaci bump! We need more like her.

It is also a nice sign that France is beginning to grow a spine, albeit very slowly.

[Dec31,1999]

A French judge has refused an anti-racism group's request for an immediate ban on Italian writer Oriana Fallaci's controversial book which suggests the September 11 attacks had shown the true face of Islam. French anti-racism group MRAP asked Judge Herve Stephan to ban Fallaci's "Rage and Pride", saying its contents amounted to incitement of racial hatred.

I agree with the judge. It's important for everyone everywhere to distinguish between race and ideology. Islam is not a race, but an ideology, which is fair game for any degree of criticism as is any other ideology.

[B Knotts]

French anti-racism group MRAP asked Judge Herve Stephan to ban Fallaci's "Rage and Pride", saying its contents amounted to incitement of racial hatred.

I know leftists are generally dumb as dirt, but isn't it still surprising how many people can't figure out that Islam is not a race?

[Hugin]

The book contains a number of provocative statements such as a claim that Western civilisation was superior to Islamic civilisation

That this is considered "prvocative" shows how much leftist propaganda has damaged our peoples thinking. How can even the most liberal person say that a western civilization is not supurior to a culture that considers women property of men, executes homosexuals, has no freedom of religion, and no tradition of rights and democracy, and is basically a throwback to the middle-ages? The only place in Islamic civilazation where this is not the norm are places where they have organized their societies around secular western civilization rather than Islamic culture, as in Turkey.