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-	'''Oriana Fallaci''' ([[29 June]] [[1929]] - [[15 September]] [[2006]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[journalist]], [[author]], and political interviewer. A former [[Italian resistance movement|partisan]] during [[World War II]], she had a long and successful journalistic career.	+
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-	She interviewed many internationally known leaders and celebrities such as the [[Dalai Lama]], [[Henry Kissinger]], the [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah of Iran]], [[Ayatollah Khomeini]], [[Willy Brandt]], [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[Walter Cronkite]], [[Muammar al-Gaddafi]], [[Federico Fellini]], [[Sammy Davis Jr]], [[Nguyen Cao Ky]], [[Yasir Arafat]], [[Indira Gandhi]], [[Alexandros Panagoulis]], Archbishop [[Makarios III]], [[Golda Meir]], [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]], [[Haile Selassie]], [[Sean Connery]] and [[Lech Walesa]].	+
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-	After retirement, she returned to the spotlight after writing a series of articles and books critical of [[Islam]] and [[Arab]]s that aroused both support as well as controversies and accusations of [[racism]] and [[intolerance]].	+
-	== After 9/11 ==	+
-	After [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]], Fallaci wrote three books critical of [[Islamism|Islamic extremists]] and [[Islam]] in general, and in both writing and interviews warned that Europe was "too tolerant of [[Muslim]]s." The first book was ''[[The Rage and the Pride]]'' (initially a four-page article in ''[[Corriere della Sera]]'', the major national newspaper in Italy). She wrote that "sons of Allah breed like rats" and in a ''Wall Street Journal'' interview in 2005, said that Europe was no longer Europe but "[[Eurabia]]". ''[[The Rage and the Pride]]'' and ''[[The Force of Reason]]'' both became bestsellers.	+
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-	There was also ''[[Oriana Fallaci intervista sé stessa - L'Apocalisse ]]''.	+
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