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ORIANA FALLACI
Italian writer and voice for freedom Oriana Fallaci has died in Florence at 76.
Damn it, what is it with this last fortnight? So many amazing people have died -Irwin, Thiele, Fallaci…
I’ve read only one of her books -The Rage and the Pride - and several of her interviews.
An amazing passionate journo and woman.Posted by carpefraise on 2006 09 15 at 04:08 AM • permalinkThis is very sad news. I didn’t even know who she was until a few months ago. When I heard that her books were banned in lefty bookshops, I couldn’t get onto Amazon.com fast enough. I have read “The Rage and the Pride” and “The Force of Reason”. If there is any justice in this world, both should be classics. This is a woman who truly did have balls.
Rest in peace Oriana.Posted by DropDeadUgly on 2006 09 15 at 04:17 AM • permalinkI just read this over at PI. It is indeed a shame.
I know she’s atheist, but God rest her soul. She’s earned it.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 15 at 04:27 AM • permalinkThe force of reason was a good but extremely angry book. She died facing charges of racial villification from one of the EU courts (Austria?) who were seeking her extradition.
They should ashamed of themselves.(someone correct me if Im wrong as I hadnt seen it mentioned for a couple of months)
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 09 15 at 04:37 AM • permalinkSad, she was ill for a long time. I hope the Pope gives a speech at her funeral.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 15 at 04:47 AM • permalinkI revered her in life and salute her in death. Even in her 70s and racked with cancer, that woman was braver than the whole preening, hairsprayed, camo-costumed corps of MSM “names” put together. May her books live and persuade for as long as the war goes on.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 09 15 at 04:48 AM • permalinkI await the obituary from Germaine Greer with bated breath . . .
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 09 15 at 05:26 AM • permalink# 18 - We the soldiers have to keep up the good fight.
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 09 15 at 07:00 AM • permalinkYes. An untimely death.
Another. Is the only life-affirming thing to happen this fortnight Bob Dylan’s new album?
By the way, i can’t find any wry (or otherwise) references to American foreign policy, as suggested in an otherwise respectful review in the Australian yesterday. When you’ve written ‘I’m much younger now’ (The essential neo-con epiphany) how can you suddenly get older? I have a reasonable radar for soft-left bullshit, I I can’t find much in the later BD.
I know. But it’s late, and there have been too many deaths, so I’m changing the subject.
Posterity may judge her as more Cassandra than Oriana. Michael Sexton feels that history will be more kind to Tony Blair than the contemporary comentariat. Worth a look.
As much as I loathe the phrase, she truly spoke “Truth to Power.”
The Truth about Islamofacism, to Power of the EU/UN/multi-culti orthodoxism.
She’s symbolic of why I left the left: They’d rather defend the people who brutally suppress everything they claim to hold dear.
Rest in peace.
The rest of us will keep up your fight.RIP Oriana. I first heard of her 15 years ago from a law school classmate who escaped from Iran when the ayatollahs came to power—she was his favorite author. Not long after (November 24, 1992), the Washington Post had an interview with her, which I saved and just reread. She was suffering from cancer back then and thought she wasn’t going to last long. I suppose it is a testament to her strength and/or stubbornness that she survived another 14 years. The article ended with her sadly noting that she had no children since she was never able to carry any to term and saying that “when you [the Post writer who had children] die, you will not die. When I die, I really die.” I beg to differ, since we’re left with her writing. Thank you, Oriana.
Posted by Polish Frizzle on 2006 09 15 at 11:02 AM • permalinkI can’t link, but website “Islamophobia Watch” is gloating.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 09 15 at 11:31 AM • permalinkErwin, Brock, Fallachi. This is maybe the first time in my young life that I’ve given a shit about dead celebrities. In all three cases I’m shocked that they’ve passed on. I heard two years ago that she had “six months to live” and I presumed that the cancer was in recession and that she was pretending to be on death’s door in order to avoid legal proceedings (as I’d do in the same situation).
Now she actually is dead and I don’t know what to say. Actually I do know what to say but it’s 1:30am Australian time and I’m drunk so please bear with me. I vaguely remember a section of “The Rage and the Pride” where she’s threatening a Roman police chief, telling him that she wants the Italian/Islamic equivalent of the Aboriginal tent embassy remove lest she do it herself, adding that she “fought fascists and knows a little something about explosives”. It was gone the next day.
God damm that woman had bigger balls than 99% of blokes that I know, she might have been half crazy but I admire that. To paraphrase Colonel Kurtz, if I had two divisions made up of women like her, this war would be over within a year.
PS: I’m drunk unless you missed it so please don’t ban me for implicitly promoting political violence. I’ve seen Green voters pick fights with random Asians after ingesting this much booze.
#29 Polish Frizzle:
The article ended with her sadly noting that she had no children since she was never able to carry any to term and saying that “when you [the Post writer who had children] die, you will not die. When I die, I really die.” I beg to differ, since we’re left with her writing.
Well said. Long live Oriana’s legacy. One person who truly had an impact on so many.
The world of Journalism has lost a giant. Unfortunately most of our remaining journalists are too blind, self-centered, talent-less, and stupid to even realize it.
Posted by Mark Razak on 2006 09 15 at 12:30 PM • permalinkCertain journalist have already greeted her by now—Michael Kelly, Thomas Paine—and not a few of the original Signers are welcoming her Home. The pipes skirl. For such a one as her, even the Valhallans stand. Rick Rescorla is there. The Marathon is run again and the news is borne of another genuine freedom fighter gone to her just reward and honor.
AussieJim, get drunk and write more often, please. Good stuff.
And ForNow—-amen to that. .Posted by Crusader rabbit on 2006 09 15 at 03:42 PM • permalinkVale, Oriana, cineri gloria sera est.
A few of my favourite (among so many) quotes:
“The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”
“I didn’t want to kill a man. I’m not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.”
“In hell, the Nobel Prize honors he who does not receive it.”
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 15 at 04:12 PM • permalinkMichael Ledeen is in with his obit for Oriana, and lets it hang out. http://politicscentral.com/2006/09/15/oriana_by_michael_ledeen.php
The Marathon is run again and lots of us are carrying the news of another genuine lover and fighter for freedom gone to her just reward and honor.
No need to ban you, AussieJim. I can’t see anything objectionable in your writing. We are in a war, aren’t we? War is violent. I can deal with it.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 15 at 06:12 PM • permalink#34 And tomorrow AussieJim will be sober but his critics will still be
uglydeluded.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 15 at 06:38 PM • permalinkHow she made the Euroweenies squirm…
To this day, my local library in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave won’t buy her books, too.
Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2006 09 15 at 07:27 PM • permalinkI know she’s atheist, but God rest her soul. She’s earned it.
Funny you should mention that…
“I am an atheist, thank God. I don’t have any intention to let someone kill me because of it.”
—Oriana Falacci,Posted by The Sanity Inspector on 2006 09 15 at 08:00 PM • permalinkGood to see those lovable and mischievous scamps over at the MuslimVillage have expressed their respects. I won’t link, but they’ve posted the WaPo report under the title “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.”
I’m shocked - shocked!- I tellyou.
They’ve also posted the link to Islamophobia (sic) Watch.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 15 at 08:43 PM • permalinkFrom yesterday’s Australian newspaper:
The spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiah Abu Bakar Bashir, in an interview with al-Jazeera (translated by the Middle East Research Institute), late last month:
“There is no democracy in Islam…Democracy must be replaced by Allah-cracy. We want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the bok but enforced…Right now we are drafting our own constitutional amendments for Indonesia, the framework for an Indonesian Islamic state where Islamic laws are enforced. The closest we ever got to an Islamic state was the Taliban government in Afghanistan, but the Americans destroyed that, along with their western allies.”So - not just in Europe then…
Atheist or not, hopefully she’s together with Fabrizio Quattrochi.
Back in 2002 she wrote with so much passioned rhetoric about the putrid state of Europe’s Leftists
‘I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man who was found in Jerusalem with an arsenal of arms and explosives hidden in the secret compartments of his sacred Mercedes, to participate in that procession and plant himself in front of a microphone to thank in the name of God the suicide bombers who massacre the Jews in pizzerias and supermarkets. To call them “martyrs who go to their deaths as to a party.”
find it shameful that the Roman Observer, the newspaper of the Pope—a Pope who not long ago left in the Wailing Wall a letter of apology for the Jews—accuses of extermination a people who were exterminated in the millions by Christians. By Europeans. I find it shameful that this newspaper denies to the survivors of that people (survivors who still have numbers tattooed on their arms) the right to react, to defend themselves, to not be exterminated again.’
I find it shameful that in obedience to the stupid, vile, dishonest, and for them extremely advantageous fashion of Political Correctness the usual opportunists—or better the usual parasites—exploit the word Peace. That in the name of the word Peace, by now more debauched than the words Love and Humanity, they absolve one side alone of its hate and bestialityAT LEAST SHE MIGHT HAVE BECOME AWARE OF BENEDICT THE NEW POPE’s lack of Dhimmitued in her last days
Out of all the Blog rememberances, I think Aussie Jim had the most forthright one, and I included it in my:
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Remembering Oriana Fallaci - The Largest Tribute In The Blogosphere[/url]Posted by Mister Ghost on 2006 09 18 at 11:42 AM • permalinkDear Orana I grow up with your books.Now you are dead and I dont know what to say.You teach me a olt of thing that I know today…I cried with you for all of peaple who you loved ...for Alkos ,for mexican litttel guy “Moses”,for Vitnam ,for the unborn child…and today I am cring for you…
Rest in peace Oriana.
Behnaz
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Damn damn damn. Oriana Fallaci was a fine, brave woman.
May she rest in peace.