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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... massacred eight hundred Hin- dus . Many women included . And where their corpses lay abandoned to the appetite of the vul- tures . Hundreds and hundreds of vultures unrol- ling long paper - streamers which were not paper- streamers ...
... massacred eight hundred Hin- dus . Many women included . And where their corpses lay abandoned to the appetite of the vul- tures . Hundreds and hundreds of vultures unrol- ling long paper - streamers which were not paper- streamers ...
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... massacred nineteen Italian soldiers who were in Iraq acting as guardian an- gels . Who provided the Iraqi population ... massacred them as three days ear- lier they had massacred seventeen Saudis in Ri- yadh and before that twenty - four ...
... massacred nineteen Italian soldiers who were in Iraq acting as guardian an- gels . Who provided the Iraqi population ... massacred them as three days ear- lier they had massacred seventeen Saudis in Ri- yadh and before that twenty - four ...
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Oriana Fallaci. Salaam . As in 1994 they had massacred the ninety- five ( almost all Jews ) in Buenos Aires and in 1993 the eighteen Marines of a peacekeeping mission at Mogadishu . ( The eighteen whose bodies were mu- tilated , torn in ...
Oriana Fallaci. Salaam . As in 1994 they had massacred the ninety- five ( almost all Jews ) in Buenos Aires and in 1993 the eighteen Marines of a peacekeeping mission at Mogadishu . ( The eighteen whose bodies were mu- tilated , torn in ...
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