The Rage and the Pride

While on the subject of 9/11, I just finished reading The Rage and the Pride by the late Oriana Fallaci. It is an awesome, passionate book. She takes everyone to task, from Pope John Paul II to various political leaders to her fellow Italians. She is not afraid to tell it like it is regarding the behavior of Muslim immigrants in Europe. She refuses to be cowed by political correctness. She has some wonderfully vicious things to say about Arafat and Jane Fonda (for whom she has such contempt, she will not even write her name -- but you know it is Fonda to whom she is referring). She also has a lot of kind things to say about people like the Dalai Lama and Rudolph Guliani.

Fallaci has no use for the libertinism that passes for freedom these days...she sees this as a great weakness. Although she claims to be an atheist, it is clear that she is aching to be a believer. She writes about the beauty she sees in the Catholic Church. It is the clerics that turn her off. As far as I'm concerned, Fallaci was/is a prophetess.

I can only imagine what she would say about Rosie O'Donnell if she were still alive...