Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ controversial film was shown in Rome this week, after being refused entry into Britain. Police were in full force and surrounded the immediate vicinity of Wilders’ conference at the Grand Palatino Hotel, where the film was shown. He was awarded the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech Award, an honor that recognizes the…
The author has already written elsewhere about the failure of political Islam because of the non-compatibility of the Islamic imaginary with the structure of the modern state. A political agenda based on Revelation will be bound to coercively suit society to law rather than the other way around. Olivier Roy, France’s leading philosopher-political scientist, disagrees…
The “Future Europe” Association is launching an international campaign of solidarity for Oriana Fallaci. “In our opinion, free speech is a universally valid value. It should not depend on political, cultural or religious interests”, say the association’s members in justification of their campaign. Future Europe recalls Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights:…
By John Hooper in Rome Oriana Fallaci, the controversial Italian journalist and author who is awaiting trial on charges of vilifying Islam, has been granted a secret audience with Pope Benedict. Fallaci’s diatribes against Muslims’ persuasions have turned her into a hate figure for the Italian left and a heroine for the anti-immigrant right. The…
By Alessandra Rizzo ROME – A new book by controversial journalist Oriana Fallaci that hit bookstores here Monday accuses Europe of having sold its soul to what she describes as an Islamic invasion. Entitled “The Strength of Reason,” (“La Forza della Ragione” in Italian), the book also accuses the Roman Catholic Church of being too…
