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Dutch MP's trial reminiscent of reporter's post-9/11 writings
by Salim Mansur https://www.legal-project.org/623/dutch-mps-trial-reminiscent-of-reporters-post-9 Excerpt: As the trial of Dutch MP Geert Wilders for offending Muslims unfolds in Amsterdam, I am reminded of Oriana Fallaci's post-9/11 writings on how she saw Europe wasted from within by the alien cultural force of Islam. Fallaci was a fearless journalist and author. And though critics faulted her for intemperate language, especially when it came to writing about Islam, Wilders' trial might well confirm her fears about Europe and the West were not misplaced. In 2006, Fallaci published The Force of Reason in the U.S. This was a translation from Italian of her hugely successful book La Forza della Ragione, published in 2004, which followed her previous bestseller, The Rage and the Pride, written in the aftermath of 9/11. In The Force of Reason, Fallaci wrote: "And there is a Europe which does not know where it goes. Which has lost its identity and sold itself to the sultans, the caliphs, the viziers, the mercenaries of the new Ottoman Empire." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Geert Wilders receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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