'Rats' slur writer is facing Muslim race case

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/06/wrace06.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/09/06/ixportal.html%20/

An Italian author who wrote an attack on Muslims, calling their culture rotten and backward and saying "the sons of Allah are multiplying like rats", was accused of inciting racial hatred in Paris yesterday.

Oriana Fallaci, 73, an Italian journalist now living in New York, was unable to attend the court hearing as she has cancer. She first published her polemic against Islam, titled The Rage and the Pride, in an Italian newspaper but such was its impact that it was turned into a best-selling book.

If successful, the case against her will set a precedent in French law. Up to now, only the public prosecutor or official anti-racist associations have been allowed to bring cases alleging incitement to racial hatred. Ms Fallaci's accusers are 11 young Muslim men from the Lyons suburbs.

[Scurrilous]

1. The good folks at National Review liked her book.

Sorta......

http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher101002.

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"There is nothing moderate about this white-hot polemic — which is both a vice and a virtue. It's a vice, because Fallaci's extreme vituperation tends to undermine the strength of her argument, making her come off at certain points as an out-of-control hothead (e.g., when she makes gutter remarks about the sexual desires and desirability of Muslims, and compares them to vermin). In the main, though, Fallaci's lack of restraint is bracing, even invigorating, first of all because she has the truth on her side, and secondly because she intends through her rage to shock awake a noble civilization hypnotized by multiculturalist mumbo-jumbo, so that it might rise to preserve itself while it still may."



Comparing Muslims to vermin and making gutter remarks about their sexual desirability is is 'bracing, even invigorating'....Whoa!

[Spentastic]

2. WTF?

"first of all because she has the truth on her side"

so they are vermin then?