Across Europe, the campaign against the veil now has an established pattern; and it has nothing to do with integration, Naima Bouteldja argues.
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Did Italian right-winger take inspiration from Maryam Namazie?
Britain and Australia are not the only countries where debate is raging over the Islamic veil. In Italy, the issue burst into the news this week after the interior ministry ordered round-the-clock police protection for an MP, believing she had been threatened for expressing her views on the subject.
Daniela Santanche, an MP for the formerly neo-fascist National Alliance, clashed in a TV chat show with the imam of a mosque near Milan. After Ms Santanche insisted that the Qur’an did not call for women to wear a veil, the other guest, Ali Abu Shwaima, angrily replied: “I am an imam and I will not permit those who are ignorant to speak of Islam. You are ignorant of Islam and do not have the right to interpret the Qur’an.”
The ministry said it had been advised that the words used by the imam might amount to a coded death sentence – which the imam has vigorously denied.
The real Oriana Fallaci
“Fallaci seemed most concerned in her last days not to have her view of Florence marred by a minaret, as if that were as good a reason as any to unleash the dogs of war. In sum, it was otherness that revolted her. She admitted to hating Mexican immigrants in America as much as Muslims in Europe. Homosexuals were another bugbear. So were Jews. More grotesque supporters joined her new crusade. On her death September 15, unconditional praise for Fallaci came from La Padania, the organ of the hate-mongers of the xenophobic Northern League. Their language – just as hers in the end – resembled nothing so much as that of the Fascist rabble-rousers the girl Oriana went to war against in the 1940s.”
Peter Byrne at Swans.com, 25 September 2006
‘The passing of a great lady’ – fascists pay tribute to Fallaci
The British National Party mourns the passing of a co-thinker:
“It [is] with deep sadness that we announce the death of of Oriana Fallaci who lost her protracted battle with breast cancer on September 15, 2006….
“Her books ‘The Pride and the Rage’ and ‘The Force of Reason’ remain essential reading not just for what they say, but also for the passion and courage with which she expressed those views. This combination of intellect and bravery is the sine qua non of effective resistance to the islamification of the West.
“With the last of her strength she defied not just the civilisational transformation of Europe into Eurabia, but also all those venal liberals who were prosecuting her in her native country of Italy for daring to defy this process. In time history will adjudge her one of Europe’s great patriots, a staunch defender of our Western heritage, art, culture, values and liberties.
“It with great regret we mark [her] passing, but it is with honour and pride that we shall remember her.”
Oriana Fallaci dead, Robert Spencer inconsolable
The woman who wrote that “Muslims have been told to come here and breed like rats” has died. Robert Spencer is heartbroken:
“Many times in her last months, after she did me the honor of calling me her friend, I thought to myself, What can I do for Oriana? Of course, the only answer was to do exactly what I am doing here at this site, and in my books, and in traveling around the country speaking, trying to alert people to the reality and magnitude of the global jihad.
“I invite you, then, on this day of sadness and loss, to pay tribute to Oriana. There is no way we can make up for what we have lost in her. But the best way we can pay tribute to Oriana is by becoming Oriana. Let there be a hundred new Orianas today, a thousand new passionate and articulate and absolutely unbowed defenders of Western culture and civilization, with a fine contempt for all the many weapons of physical and psychological intimidation that the jihadists and their non-Muslim allies and tools in the Western media and government establishments use to try to silence and discredit us.
“Buy her books. Give them to your friends and coworkers. Explain to them why she said … that ‘Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam’. Explain to them why that matters for so much that they hold dear. Enlist them also in the anti-jihad resistance.
“And when we prevail, we will be able to memorialize her fittingly, as a light that shone in our darkest days. May her memory be eternal.”
Jihad Watch, 15 September 2005
Chin up, Robert. As readers of our site can confirm, there is is no shortage of racist bigots ready and willing to replace dear departed Oriana.
Italian beaches under Islamic law – shock revelation by FrontPage Magazine
“Europe’s transformation into Eurabia is still dismissed as absurd by many Europeans who choose to ignore the effects of unassimilated Muslim populations in their cities. But it’s the absurd – as seen in some recent accommodations to Muslims – that might finally force them to avert their eyes no more. The wandering eyes of men will no longer be a concern for certain women in a popular Italian resort on the Adriatic Sea. The city council of Riccione has come up with a way to enable Muslim women to enjoy the sand and sea without being fully clothed: opening sections of the beach exclusively for their use.”
Aaron Hanscom in Front Page Magazine, 7 August 2006
France angered by Italy senator’s racist slur
France has complained to World Cup winner Italy about a right-wing senator’s racist comments that the defeated French team was made up of “blacks, Muslims and communists”, the Italian media reported on Tuesday.
Racism has already threatened to cloud Italy’s victory, with reports that Italian defender Marco Materazzi provoked French star Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, by calling him a “terrorist”. Materazzi denies making such comments.
There was no such denial from Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, who lost a ministerial post in a centre-right government earlier this year for wearing a T-shirt with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad offensive to Muslims.
As the victorious Azzurri returned to a heroes’ welcome in Rome on Monday, Calderoli celebrated it as a “political victory” over a mixed-race French team.
Italy had “beat a team which, in the quest for results, sacrificed its own identity by selecting blacks, Muslims and communists”, the senator said, in comments that were rejected by members of Italy’s new centre-left coalition government.
Fallaci trial begins today in Italy
“Courtroom Jihad in Italy: the Fallaci trial begins today, no doubt with the mujahedin laughing behind their palms at the indignant compliant dhimmis.” Robert Spencer once again rallies to the defence of poor oppressed Oriana Fallaci.
Yes, that’s the same Oriana Fallaci who in a recent interview with the New Yorker threatened to blow up a mosque being built at Colle di Val d’Elsa, near Siena.
Fallaci threatens to blow up mosque
The Italian author Oriana Fallaci, who once wrote that Muslims “breed like rats”, may be facing up to three years in prison after she vowed to blow up a mosque.
Ms Fallaci, 75, who has cancer, is due to appear in court next week charged with the lesser offence of vilifying Islam, punishable with a £3,450 fine. But after her latest outburst in the New Yorker last week Muslim leaders are demanding that she be tried for inciting religious hatred, which carries a three-year jail term.
The former journalist, who has said she will not attend Monday’s hearing in Bergamo, told the magazine that she intended to destroy a mosque being built at Colle di Val d’Elsa, near Siena. “I do not want to see a 24-metre minaret in the landscape of Giotto when I cannot even wear a cross or carry a Bible in their country, so I blow it up!” she said.
In a trilogy of books published after the attacks of September 11, Ms Fallaci lamented the Islam “invasion” into Europe. Judge Armando Grasso ruled in a preliminary hearing that Ms Fallaci had made 18 statements “offensive to Islam and Muslims”. Following her most recent comments, Adel Smith, the president of the Italian Muslim Union, said he would press for the sterner charge of inciting religious hatred.
Opus Dei paper prints prophet in hell cartoon
A cartoon depicting Muhammed in hell has been published by an Italian magazine close to Opus Dei, bringing angry criticism from Muslim groups and disapproval from the Vatican.
The drawing in Studi cattolici takes its inspiration from Dante’s Divine Comedy, in which the 14th-century poet imagines being guided through hell by the Latin poet Virgil, and sees the prophet cut in two as his punishment for spreading division. In the cartoon, Virgil points out another figure to Dante, saying: “And that one there with his pants down, that’s Italian policy towards Islam.”
The caption uses a play on words to suggest Italy has chickened out in its attitude to Muslims.
See also Daily Telegraph, 17 April 2006