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"A Colony Of Islam"
Oops. Controversial journalist Oriana Fallaci is back with a new book. Two years after her extended 9/11 essay "The Rage and the Pride" drew praise and venom in equal measures, the Italian war correspondent publishes "The Force of Reason."
It doesn't seem as if the intervening years have dulled her fury. La Forza della Ragione accuses Europe of having sold out to an "Islamic invasion".
"Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony," she writes, "In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism."
Fallaci, who is probably Italy's best-known journalist, faced numerous court cases following the publication of "The Rage and the Pride." A French anti-racist group tried to have the book banned, while other organisations demanded that a warning notice be included with each copy.
Her accusers claimed Fallaci's work incited hatred against Muslims.
Nevertheless, her new book takes off where "The Rage and the Pride" ended. If anything, it promises to be even more extreme, as Fallaci herself claims in the introduction:
"I regret only having said less than I should have ..." Rage and pride, she says, "have married and produced a robust son: contempt. And contempt has nourished reflection, and reinvigorated Reason ... For example ... what sort of democracy is it that ... instead of listening to the citizens, shuts them up, consigns them to the enemy, abandons them to abuse and bullying ...?"
Fallaci has dedicated "The Force of Reason" to the victims of Madrid's train bombs.
