[lit-ideas] Re: Olivier Roy, Daniel Pipes and Oriana Fallaci

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:51:28 -0500

Sounds like you people deserve each other.  Everybody's angry and clueless what 
to do with it.  I notice that the conference will address the "rootless" youth, 
but it doesn't sound like they'll be addressing why they're rootless.  Sort of 
like dealing with gangs in this country without addressing why they kids need 
to be in gangs; like, maybe they need a family, some structure, a father; 
religion offers all of these things.  Answer to gangs: lock em up, throw away 
the key ...




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Lawrence Helm 
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 3/24/2006 2:30:19 PM 
Subject: [lit-ideas] Olivier Roy, Daniel Pipes and Oriana Fallaci



 
But there are powerful voices weighing in on the side of our war being not just 
against the Islamists but against all of Islam.  I just read Oriana Fallaci?s 
The Rage and the Pride.  She was in New York within walking distance of the 
Twin Towers on 9/11 and afterwards she saw Muslims around the world on TV 
dancing and singing over America having got what it deserved.  She knows how to 
hate and she knows how to hold a grudge.  She hates the cicadas, the 
politically correct who apologize to the Muslims while they engage in the most 
outrageous behavior.  They can behave anyway they like back in their own 
country but when they come to the West, they should behave in accordance with 
our standards.  She has examples and she names names.  Of course someone issued 
a fatwa calling for her death after she wrote The Rage and the Pride.  
 
Fallaci worries about the treasures in Italy that the Islamists have no respect 
for.  They would destroy the works of Michael Angelo just as they did the 
Buddhas of Bamiyan.  She lists many of Italy?s treasures and concludes, ?I also 
worry for the Academy Gallery where we keep Michelangelo?s David (Shamefully 
naked, my God, therefore particularly blamed by the Koran).  And should the 
poor-little-things destroy one of those treasures, only one, I swear: it is I 
who would become a holy-warrior.  It is I who would become a murderer.  So 
listen to me, you followers of a God who preach an eye for an eye and a tooth 
for a tooth.  I was born in the war.  I grew up in the war.  About war I know a 
lot and believe me: I have more balls than your kamikazes who find the courage 
to die only when dying means killing thousands of people.  Babies included.  
War you wanted, war you want?  Good.  As far as I am concerned, war is and war 
will be.  Until the last breath.?
 
Lawrence

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