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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.56
EAN num: 9780847827534
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Label: Rizzoli
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Page Count: 290
Printing Date: March 07, 2006
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Release Date: March 07, 2006
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Oriana Fallaci is back with her much-anticipated follow up to The Rage and the Pride, her powerful post-September 11 manifesto. The genesis for The Force of Reason was a postscript entitled Due Anni Dopo (Two Years Later), which was intended as a brief appendix to the thirtieth edition of The Rage and the Pride (2002). Once Ms. Fallaci completed the postscript, she chose to expand it into a book, a continuation of her ideas set in motion in The Rage and the Pride.In The Force of Reason Fallaci takes aim at the many attacks and death threats she received after the publication of The Rage and the Pride. Ms. Fallaci begins by identifying herself with one Master Cecco, the author of a heretical book who was burnt at the stake during the Inquisition seven centuries ago on account of his beliefs, and proceeds with a rigorous analysis of the burning of Troy and the creation of a Europe that, to her judgment, is no longer her familiar homeland but rather a place best called Eurabia, a soon-to-be colony of Islam (with Italy as its stronghold). Ms. Fallaci explores her ideas in historical, philosophical, moral, and political terms, courageously addressing taboo topics with sharp logic.
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Reading her reminds me of Jesus' words in Luke 9:50: 'If they are not against us, they are for us.' Fallaci calls herself a Christian atheist. An incongruity I would say. He was who he said he was or he was completely crazy. She is a freelance Christian, instead of relying on God, she relies on her own reason. And that's a lot of relying that brings only rage, a heck of a lot of rage. She also claims not to sympathizeneither with the Right nor the Left, and rejects any political classification other than a revolutionary (do you know any revolution without blood?). Another incongruity, I would say, unless you live in Heaven already. We on earth have to choose, and me as a conservative, would rather choose the less evil.
I sympathize with her. I understand her rage. From the very very first page you will know that you are up to something special. This ain't no ordinary book. This is not an ignorant person. It's a cultivated woman who knows what she's talking about, who suffered, and sees the injustices around but doesn't mince words. Oh. the rage! She is Achiles' intellectual counterpart.
Her message, her warning is call to Europeans to stand up and defend our hard earned western civilization, our culture. We are giving in to Islamo-fascism, we are commiting suicide. The history that Fallaci pours in here falls with the force of a mighty Niagara. One has to become sad reading this. It reminds me also of Job, his complaining to his legalist friends about how innocent he is, about how unjustly he is suffering. He wants a fair trial with God, sure He will understand him and get him off the hook. Who is Fallaci cliaming to? Nobody. We are even lucky we got people like Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton (and maybe somebody in Europe), so few but made it possible yesterday for us to critize freely and not being threatened with our lives. More than lucky!
The letter she writes to an Italian Catholic prelate, a bishop who wouldn't bless the coffins of 19 soldiers killed in Irak, and said it pained him to witness the celebrations that took place in their honor, is well worth putting here: "If that Sunday Jesus Christ had had the misfortune to find himself (she doesn't capitalize Him) in the Caserta cathedral, his disdain for the temple's Pharisee merchants would have become a joke in comparison to his disdain for you. He would have kicked your assand thrown you out into the square, and here he would have smashed so hard your face that day that you would not even be able to eat a tomato soup." And she is not a Christian. Amazing!
In lack of a proletariat the neo-commies have fopund in the Arab masses their natural allies. This, in a few words, explains the tremendous sucess of the take-over of Islam in Europe, the craddle of Socialism (Nazi and Commy).
What does not amuse me is Fallaci's irreverent dismissal of religions in general. Here's one comment on account of Abraham, in his role as the Founder of Israel: "Who wants a Founding Father who is ready to slit his own son's throat for the glory of some God?" Inadvertently given herself the answer: It is not 'some' God; it is the one and only God. But otherwise her question would be rightly put.
There's a lot that she talks about in this book, but I think I understand her best when she points to "the presumption and assumption of holding the Truth (by the Left). Its dogmatism" as the unforgivable sin of the Left. Meaning this: They want to put us in an intellectual ghetto, where freedom of speech would be irrelevant, useless, since we would be outside society. It is a Holocaust ofthe soul.
What good is freedom? Lenin once asked. Only Fallaci seemed to have enough rage to shout the answer back.
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This is a keeper. Oriana Fallaci was smeared by conventional media a few years ago for detailing the Islamic threat to Europe and to the world.
Brave woman, excellent writer. Had she not died of cancer after the book was published, she might have been murdered.
The Islamists had a price on her head.
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This is a gravely important subject and Oriana Fallaci, never afraid to speak the truth, has said what must be said. Will people in the West listen or will we become victims all of the degenerate "religion of peace"? Everyone who cares about freedom, democracy, and the values and culture of the Western World should read this book and also her previous one on the same subject. They are vital messages from a great prophet of Truth.
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She makes me laugh and she makes me want to cry.
This book is written with such passion and intensity that it makes you want to howl with rage at the stupidity of Eurabia and at the same time clap your hands with joy that someone, this Oriana Fallaci, had the brains and the wisdom and the courage the put it all down. The brains, because her perceptions are clear minded and sharp, the wisdom because she has a huge experience in person of the modern world as a journalista - left for dead in Mexico in '68 was it? - and the courage because, as we all know and as few are prepared to articulate, criticise Islam, and you are likely to be put in the gun sights of a the nasty-be- nasties.
This book is written by a highly principled person who knows that the West is the best and it is being given away by the politicaly correct mind-dead people of the zombie left, who hold power in Europe. Read it.
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Fantastic book. A must read for everybody interested in today's world.
THUS LADY HAD MORE "GUTS' THAN ALL THE POLITICIANS PUT TOGETHER.
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