The Rage and the Pride
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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. | + | '''''The Rage and the Pride''''' (''La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio'' in Italian) is a [[book]] written in the wake of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] by the late Italian [[journalist]] and [[author]] [[Oriana Fallaci]]. It questions stated tenets of [[Islam]] and its practices, condemns [[totalitarian]] forces bent on destroying liberal Western society and civilisation, and rails against [[apathy]] regarding the immediate threat posed by [[Islamic fundamentalism]]. Fallaci's book was originally a series of articles written for the national Italian [[newspaper]] ''[[Corriere della Sera]]''. The book has been a bestseller in Italy and Europe, where it has sold over 1.5 million copies. |
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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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| - | Her writings have been translated into 21 languages, including English, Spanish, French, [[Dutch language|Dutch]], German, Urdu, Greek, Swedish, Polish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Romanian, [[Serbo-Croatian]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Slovene language|Slovenian]], [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]]. | + | |
| + | == Reception == | ||
| + | The book was popular by many, especially in Italy. Some reviewers, however, found it excessive. [[Christopher Hitchens]], himself a vocal critic of Islam, described it in a review for the ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'' as "a sort of primer in how not to write about Muslims" and noted that it resembled earlier [[anti-Semitic]] texts depicting [[Jew]]s as vermin. [[Michael Ledeen]] commended Fallaci’s "wonderful way with words" and called the book "terrific". | ||
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The Rage and the Pride (La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio in Italian) is a book written in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks by the late Italian journalist and author Oriana Fallaci. It questions stated tenets of Islam and its practices, condemns totalitarian forces bent on destroying liberal Western society and civilisation, and rails against apathy regarding the immediate threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism. Fallaci's book was originally a series of articles written for the national Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The book has been a bestseller in Italy and Europe, where it has sold over 1.5 million copies.
Reception
The book was popular by many, especially in Italy. Some reviewers, however, found it excessive. Christopher Hitchens, himself a vocal critic of Islam, described it in a review for the Atlantic Monthly as "a sort of primer in how not to write about Muslims" and noted that it resembled earlier anti-Semitic texts depicting Jews as vermin. Michael Ledeen commended Fallaci’s "wonderful way with words" and called the book "terrific".
