On the Passing of Orianna Fallaci

One of my biggest shocks was that since 9/11, liberals have been defending militant Islam even though it treats its women like cattle and stone homosexuals. Oriana Fallaci was a liberal in the classical sense. She did what NOW (National Organization of Women) and other groups should be doing.... taking a stand against abuses against women worldwide. Instead they cower, make apologies, and find minor offenses to pick at in the US. It's because they are cowards. Orianna was not. Rest in Peace

Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy's best-known writers and war correspondents who goaded the world's great and issued a vitriolic assault on Islam after the September 11 attacks on the United States, died on Friday aged 77.

Fallaci died in her home town of Florence after battling cancer for several years, a hospital official said.

She quarreled with Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat, provoked U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger into likening himself to a cowboy, and tore off a chador (enveloping Islamic robe) in a meeting with Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

De Bortoli first published the angry essay that turned into Fallaci's controversial best-seller, "The Rage and the Pride," which described Islam as oppressive and Arab immigrants in Europe as dirty, foul-mouthed and bigoted.

She called on Europeans to defend their culture and values instead of adjusting to immigrants' needs.

"The book was a great appeal to be proud of our identity," De Bortoli, former editor of Corriere della Sera newspaper, said. "It's the strongest testimony to the emotional and intellectual reaction to the September 11 (2001) attacks."

In a later book, "The Force of Reason," Fallaci wrote that the Islamic faith "sows hatred in the place of love and slavery in the place of freedom."

According to Fallaci's own anecdotes, she had a shouting match with Arafat and opened an interview with Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi by ridiculing his political manifesto as "so small and insignificant it fits in my powder puff." al-Reuters