I couldn't resist posting this after i saw that the lawyer defending the allegedly racist book was named Bigot.
To: sharktrager; aculeus; Orual; general_re
... her lawyer, Christophe Bigot ...Definitely one for the Name File.
2 posted on
10/09/2002 1:31:06 PM PDT by
dighton
To: sharktrager
I didn't know she had cancer.
3 posted on
10/09/2002 1:31:18 PM PDT by
tet68
To: sharktrager
Fallaci is a pretty cool name for a woman, also.
5 posted on
10/09/2002 1:34:45 PM PDT by
js1138
To: sharktrager
In her book -- a best-seller in Italy and Spain -- Fallaci characterized Muslims as "vile creatures, who urinate in baptistries" and "multiply like rats." Yeah. And?
7 posted on
10/09/2002 1:35:29 PM PDT by
CaptRon
To: sharktrager
Book Banning. Can't say anything unkind about the Jihadists. Wonderful.
9 posted on
10/09/2002 1:39:43 PM PDT by
DBtoo
To: sharktrager
"
on charges of inciting racial hatred for a book that has denigrating passages on Islam"
Islam is not a race. It is a religion and if this nonsense applies to anyone speaking ill of a religion then the Government of France should go on trial for its persection of Christian Ministries.
To: sharktrager
...."Fallaci characterized Muslims as "vile creatures, who urinate in baptistries" and "multiply like rats." An excerpt from "Rage and Pride" was posted here last year. She didn't "characterize" Muslims as urinating in baptistries, she reported on their desecration of a Catholic church in Rome where they not only peed in the baptistry but all over the place...cleaning crews cannot get the yellow stains out of the marble inside and outside the church. Pigs!
To: sharktrager
To: sharktrager
A second author Wednesday went to trial in Paris in as many months on charges of inciting racial hatred for a book that has denigrating passages on Islam. Sheesh, they can't even get their free speech controls right. Even if all the accusations are correct: how can it be "racial hatred" to "denigrate Islam", which is a religion, not a race?
To: sharktrager
You'll find the full Fallaci essay here, and it's well worth reading again:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/669794/posts
Excerpt:
"....Sometimes I see another image instead, a symbolic (and therefore infuriating) one: the huge tent with which the Somalian Muslims disfigured and befouled and profaned the Piazza del Duomo at Florence for three months last summer. My city.
"A tent put up in order to beg-condemn-insult the Italian government that hosted them but wouldnt give them the papers necessary to rove about Europe and wouldnt let them bring the hordes of their relatives to Italy. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, pregnant sisters-in-law, and if they had their way, their relatives relatives as well.
"A tent situated next to the beautiful palazzo of the Archbishop on whose sidewalk they kept the shoes or sandals that are lined up outside the mosques in their countries. And along with the shoes or sandals, the empty bottles of water theyd used to wash their feet before praying. A tent placed in front of the cathedral with Brunelleschis cupola and by the side of the Baptistery with Ghibertis golden doors. A tent, finally, furnished like a sleazy little apartment: seats, tables, chaise-lounges, mattresses for sleeping and for fucking, ovens for cooking food and plaguing the piazza with smoke and stench. And, thanks to the customary irresponsibility of ENEL, which cares about our works of art about as much as it cares about our landscape, furnished with electric light. Thanks to a radio tape player, enriched by the uncouth wailing of a muezzin who punctually exorted the faithful, deafened the infidels, and smothered the sound of the church bells.
"Add to all this the yellow streaks of urine that profaned the marble of the Baptistry. (My, these sons of Allah sure have a long range! However did they manage to hit the target when they were held back by a protective railing that kept it nearly two whole meters away from their urinary equipment?) And along with the yellow streaks of urine, the stench of the excrement that blocked the door of San Salvatore al Vescovo: that exquisite Romanesque church (year 1000) that stands at the rear of the Piazza del Duomo ....."
To: sharktrager
As a country, France was pathetic enough. Franarabia is worse.
16 posted on
10/09/2002 2:15:18 PM PDT by
per loin
To: sharktrager
Have any Muslims been prosecuted yet in Europe for writing or speaking negatively about Christians or Westerners? Oh, wait, these sorts of laws only work one way if you're a liberal.
20 posted on
10/09/2002 3:18:42 PM PDT by
Tancred
To: sharktrager
ROFL. Looks like the banter of your average zealot fuming cause someone had the brass to say something true that paints them in a bad light.
24 posted on
10/09/2002 4:31:47 PM PDT by
Havoc
To: sharktrager
btt
26 posted on
10/09/2002 8:17:13 PM PDT by
Cacique
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