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 66
... < Better dead than dishonoured ยป was that family's com- ment ) . Where in November 2001 , just two months after September 11 , a French - Moroccan girl of Ga- leria , Corsica , was stabbed to death with twenty- four knife - wounds by her ...
... < Better dead than dishonoured ยป was that family's com- ment ) . Where in November 2001 , just two months after September 11 , a French - Moroccan girl of Ga- leria , Corsica , was stabbed to death with twenty- four knife - wounds by her ...
Page 99
... Better : in 1991 , during the Gulf War , I saw a Saudi expert in explosive who together with two Marines was defusing an unexploded bomb . Well , all of a sudden he abandoned the delicate opera- tion , regardless the Marines ' protests ...
... Better : in 1991 , during the Gulf War , I saw a Saudi expert in explosive who together with two Marines was defusing an unexploded bomb . Well , all of a sudden he abandoned the delicate opera- tion , regardless the Marines ' protests ...
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... better his palace and searches every hall , every room , every corridor , every wardrobe , every nook and cranny . He rummages in every drawer , leafs through every book , searches every garment . But in vain . Because , instead of ...
... better his palace and searches every hall , every room , every corridor , every wardrobe , every nook and cranny . He rummages in every drawer , leafs through every book , searches every garment . But in vain . Because , instead of ...
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