Oriana Fallaci: Nasty Rant, post 9-11

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Sun Jul 14 07:29:01 PDT 2002



>Fallaci begins by debunking the claim that Islam is a religion that
>preaches
>love, tolerance and peace. The Koran, she asserts, ''authorises lies,
>calumny and hypocrisy.'' For 1400 years, she argues, Muslims have ''not
>contributed one whit to the history of thought.'' They have ''not opened
>their doors for the conquest of civilisation'' nor allowed anyone ''to
>speak
>about freedom and democracy and justice and progress.''
>
>//////
>
>Avicenna? Averroes? Algebra?
>

OK, Fallaci's a bigoted idiot. She doesn't need to be refuted. Her popularity needs to be diagnosed.

jks

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