Fallaci's Crime: Thought, Reason

The new Fallaci book, treatise really,  is a MUST READ, yesterday. We must put it on the bookshelves of our children and our left-wing-war-loving (always under the guise of peace) professors.

The censure and legal proceedings against Fallaci in Eurabia is incomprehensible. It is beyond the grasp of the American mind.

I mean Switzerland. That Switzerland where the sons of Allah are now more numerous and more arrogant than at Mecca. And where in 1995 the Article 261b of the Criminal Code was written for their benefit. (The Article which allows a Muslim immigrant to win any ideological or private lawsuit by invoking religious racism and racial discrimination. [As in]    "He- didn't- -chase-me- -because- -I'm- -a- thief-  -but- because- I'm- a- Muslim"

Quoting the Article 261b, in fact, through the Swiss Embassy in Rome in November 2002 the Berne Federal Office of Justice [oh these names, these euphemisms -Atlas]  dared to ask the Italian government to extradite me or to open legal proceedings against me for the content [of her book] The Rage and The Pride. Proceedings requested by Muslim groups like the Islamic Center of Berne, the Somali Association of Geneva, the SOS Racism of Lausanne and Islamic immigrants living in the town of Neuchatel.[...]

Judgments, they said, sustained by ideas which "endanger public peace [that fucking word again, they use that word like a $2 whore - Atlas] and generate hate among those who believe in the clash of civilizations".

The request was denied because the Italian constitution guarantees the right to free thought but what was even more incredulous was this;

[...] Switzerland is not the only country where I risk to end behind bars. Most of Europe, in fact, has become a possible threat. Do you know why? Because the European Union exercises a perversion called European Arrest Warrant. And the European Arrest Warrant is a mandate which not only permits any European country to arrest and keep in jail any citizen belonging to the Union: it is an abuse which permits to impose the extradition from his or her own homeland.

This is staggering. For criminals and felons, it's one thing. But for the crime of thought?

America must pay attention and stop assigning so much credence to the EU. They are fini. Finished.And stop pandering to the notion of liberal guilt. Read this so that you better understand the liberal pathology. 

Of course the sick irony is Fallaci has been indicted by a judge in her native Italy under provisions of the Italian Penal Code which proscribe the "vilipendio," or "vilification," of "any religion admitted by the state."  And so she resides in the states.

Interestingly enough, Fallaci seemed perplexed that a leftist Jewish association  "Licra" supported a trial against her in Paris. A trial promoted for xenophobia, blasphemy, instigation to hatred of Islam. She should not have been shocked. These Jews here and here are Jews in name only, I assure you, it's right vs. wrong left.

The book is riveting. It's truth unadorned. So let this serve as a warning, I  continue to excerpt this book, and Cassandra will not be talking to the wind. She will  be heard, she will be given voice and her voyage will not have been in vain. The  union must be saved.  To be continued, count on it.

Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, hat tip Phil Interesting take on Eurabian nightmares

EURABIA UPDATE: Infidel Bloggers Alliance wrote in tonight that the Telegraph relieved editor Sarah Sands of her duties as editor after only nine months. Now she is claiming that she was released because of an article that she published unfavorable to Islam

Sarah Sands was fired as editor of the Sunday Telegraph on March 7, 2006.
Now she claims that it was because she published an "Islamophobic" article... which was later yanked!

Sarah Sands will be replaced by Patience Wheatcroft as editor of The Sunday Telegraph.

Infidel Blogger Alliance has much more on the story.

The Sunday Herald reported that Sarah Sands had been removed but gave no reason for her departure from the Telegraph.

Infidel Bloggers has that original article. It was also republished at the Coalition Against Global Terrorism. The article was later removed from the Telegraph UK site because of concerns of "legal action".

Hat tip Tom via Gateway Pundit

Comments

[John Sobieski]

I'm reading Bruce Bawer's While Europe Slept. This book, like Fallacis', need to be read far and wide. Ignorance is going to get us killed or enslaved.

[Francis W. Porretto]

Give up on the EU? That's well overdue. What's less obvious but equally imperative is that Americans give up on Europe, whose pundits have openly advocated everything from "Eurabia" to a preemptive attack on the United States.

We have nothing to fear from Europe militarily, of course, but the possibility of (further) cultural pollution flowing westward across the Atlantic is sobering enough.

[Shouting Thomas]

It's astonishing to watch the West committing suicide, isn't it?

And we seem helpless.

What is happening to us?

[Ralph Downton]

Your article states ...
"the European Arrest Warrant is a mandate which not only permits any European country to arrest and keep in jail any citizen belonging to the Union: it is an abuse which permits to impose the extradition from his or her own homeland"

That is untrue. The grounds for arrest are just the same as they would be in any member state - analagous to being arrested in America for a federal offence. There are no powers to jail a citizen without conviction.
Switzerland is not a member of the European Union.

[Craig]

Pamela,
There is a San Francisco moonbat bookstore that I took to task over refusing to carry Oriana Fallaci. I fired off an email. Here below is my email with their ridiculous answer.

On Mar 11, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Craig Hancock wrote:

Why do you advertise: "known for our commitment to freedom of expression"? If you really do have that commitment, then why ban Oriana Fallaci?

The bottom line is: this author doesn't represent YOUR VIEW. And yes that is also a freedom you enjoy. The freedom to pick and choose who you please to put in the bookstore.

Your replacing what you believe is agitprop for another form- your own.

From: "City Lights Books"
Subject: Re: Freedom of Speech- You've obviously missed the point
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 12:33:09 -0800

Craig,

City Lights began as an progressive bookstore, and we continue to stock
books, including political books, from independent presses and literature from outside the US which are difficult to find elsewhere.

These books often don't have the advertising budget demanded by the chains. We're sorry you don't feel our selection is as encompassing as it could be, but we don't stock many mainstream books (we didn't stock Fallaci, nor Bill O'Reilly, nor Al Franken, nor the Clintons for that
matter).

That material can be easily found elsewhere, and stocking it would only reduce our budget for books that aren't carried by the chains.

[Thomas Carney]

Un-bloody-believable. Someone put on trial for having thoughts put in a book that are not popular with the Left. The Left consistently accuses conservatives, Christians (especially Catholics), traditional Jews and others of being close minded... but now, the PC crowd actually has the law on their side!!!!

If it can happen in Eurabia (which it is) then the USA is less than half a step away... now that's scary!!!!

[Dan Patterson]

This is the kind of nonesense that takes hold when people are silent against tyranny. It has happened many time before and often in our not-so-distant past. Why are we to sacrifice ourselves and our culture in order to appease a stone-age gaggle of rock-throwing arm-waving bullies doing the monkey-dance? Let them throw rocks and wave their skinny arms in the air, and be all upset and offended. Big f'ing deal.

If you let them get away with subverting culture, airplanes get flown into buildings and car bombs are detonated in crowds. All in the name of protecting the honor of a false idol.

Time for this problem to be solved. And it will take a big orange ball to solve it, but solve it we must. Co-exsisting is possible and it has been the case for many generations, but tyranny is not acceptable and neither is oppression.

Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel

[wxjames]

In "While Europe Slept", Bruce Bawer writes
It’s a pretty delusion. In reality, Europe is even now entering another chapter in its long history of violent struggle. The enemy can’t be wished or talked away. And what’s at stake isn’t just sovereignty of one or two nations but modern democratic civilization.
It's the catch 22 of the 21st century. Some of us know the enemy is upon us. They cannot be wished or talked away, and our own laws forbid that we shoot them dead. Our only way out of this is for a leader (politician) ambitious enough to make a campaign against the enemy (creeping Islam). Politicians by nature are followers and oportunists. Perhaps we can take a leader from another venue and follow him as we push him to make a stand against our enemy, the anti-civilization, Islam. I have written many times that eventually, we will have to outlaw Islam, burn all korans, and raise all mosques to the ground. I may be among the first to realize this, but I am right. Soon this will become a movement. A line drawn to reverse the creeping of Islam and preserve and expand civilization.
If you were to ask me two decades ago if I would ever need to fight to expand civilization in my life, I would have wondered to what planet, in what solar system .
My world is turning upside down.

[Megs]

I am consistent...in that I did not support the prosecution of the holocaust denier for his thoughts or words and I even more so protest the prosecution of this woman now. It's a frightening virus that I hope does not spread any further...though I fear it will.

[Washington]

Interesting and mostly disturbing. The left has turned to radical Islam since their socialist experiment failed.

[chez diva]

Craig,

You should read Cathy Seipp's eye-opening article on this particular book store and at least one reason why they refuse to carry Fallaci's book.
Here's Cathy's article.
Here's my take on City Lights.

I agree with Pamela on the importance of this book and do hope it helps open more eyes to the threat of radical Islam.

Shouting Thomas:
The far Left in this country is attempting to appease radical Islamist because they think that they won't kill us if we play nice. We still have hope in this country but for all intents and purposes most of Europe has abdicated itself to Radical Islam.
The outrage over the Danish cartoons ironically may be the wake up call that Europe needs to get their act together and deal with the spread of Islamofascism. I guess time will tell.

[wxjames]

Read about Sudden Jihad Syndrome at
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3450

Are there any moderate Muslims ?
I believe in freedom of religion, I believe that people are basically good. But this cancer is bent on the total control of the world and the destruction of civility and civilization to achieve that goal.
As a thinking human being, I wonder to what end do they need to control the world ?
To please Allah ? If Allah is God, He already controls the world. They can not prove the existence of Allah any more than I can prove the existence of God. Islam is moon worship voodoo. Control all to what end again ?

[boyrobot]

Pam is the new Oswald Spengler.

-- Jonathan Burdick