The Force of ReasonOriana 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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Page 182
... death in a country which does not punish death preachers and givers with the death penalty . It's easy to play the revolutio- nary when at a trial the judges question cour- teously and the lawyers defend solicitously and nobody calls ...
... death in a country which does not punish death preachers and givers with the death penalty . It's easy to play the revolutio- nary when at a trial the judges question cour- teously and the lawyers defend solicitously and nobody calls ...
Page 247
... death of the body because , the more I hate death and I see in it a waste of the nature , the less I fear it . ( Both in peace and in war , in health and in sickness , with death I have always played . So anyone who thinks to frighten ...
... death of the body because , the more I hate death and I see in it a waste of the nature , the less I fear it . ( Both in peace and in war , in health and in sickness , with death I have always played . So anyone who thinks to frighten ...
Page 264
... Death . Which is why kamikazes ' mothers celebrate their sons ' death and happily shout Allah - akbar , God is great , when their sons disintegrate with their victims . The West , instead , is a river . My home is a river . And rivers ...
... Death . Which is why kamikazes ' mothers celebrate their sons ' death and happily shout Allah - akbar , God is great , when their sons disintegrate with their victims . The West , instead , is a river . My home is a river . And rivers ...
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