Oriana Fallaci on the Suicide of the West
My copy of The Force of Reason arrived tonight, finally! I ordered it six months ago, no exaggeration: My guess is the delay was because she again did the translation herself - and the preservation of her unique grammar (and punctuation) and Italian phraseology is one of the aspects that makes her writing so forceful.
This book is about twice as long as The Rage and the Pride and in a way it picks up where that one left off.
It's a quick read, mainly because it's such a staccato blast of facts and arguments, delivered with the passion of war itself, that you can't put it down.
I'm about 2/3 finished and may summarize in detail later, but a prominent theme so far is: Europe is toast:
What I say is that today's Islamic invasion of Europe is nothing else than a revival of its centuries-old imperialism, of its centuries-old colonialism. More underhand, though. More treacherous. Because this time it is characterized not only by the current Kara Mustafas and Lala Mustafas and Ali Pashas and Ahmet Pashas and Suleymans the Magnificent, that is by the Bin Ladens and the Al Zarkawis and the various Arafats and the butchers who blow themselves up with the skyscrapers or buses. It is characterized also by the immigrants who settle in our countries, our homelands. And who without any respect for our laws impose on us their own laws. Their own customs, their God. Do you know how many of them live on the European continent, that is in the stretch running from the Atlantic coast to the Urals? About sixty million. In the European Union only, about twenty-five. Outside the European Union, thirty-five....And not only because the invasion is proceeding relentlessly, but because the Muslims stand as the most prolific ethnic and religious group in the world. A characteristic favored by polygamy and the fact that in a woman the Koran sees only a womb for giving birth.Ah! Touching the subject means risking more than pillory and harassment. It means asking for a life sentence. In our subjugated Europe the Islamic fertility is such a taboo that nobody ever dares to speak about it...
Fallaci provides a great deal more history than in the previous book - much of which I already knew, yet the synopsis of 13 centuries is bracing stuff.
Another key theme is that we in the West have overlooked a coordinated assault that has been underway for decades:
This is a gripping narrative. It is required reading. The Force of Reason is a book to buy five of, and give away to throughtful people you know. It should be in every home in America, because here there is still time to face down the threat.
A few did realize the danger, I know. If you consult the library you find many essays on the subject. But most of them went unobserved, unlistened. The Cold War sucked everything. I mean: most of my generation did not care about Islamism, did not worry about the term Revival of Islam...
