Oriana Fallaci and Islamism: Europe revisits her old warning
Oriana Fallaci's 2001 warning about Islamism resurfaces after the Berlin and Paris attacks. Prophet or alarmist?
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
Oriana Fallaci: the warning Europe rediscovers after every attack
Two decades on, Oriana Fallaci's warning about Sarracinism is circulating again like an awkward fossil. She wrote it in 2001: «You refuse to understand that, for Jovenlandeses, the West is a world to be conquered, punished, subjected to Sarracin». The recent attacks in Berlin and Paris have revived interest in an author who went from «brave feminist» to «Sarracinophobic fascist» in two days. From her work, readers rescue «Nothing and So Be It», though what has aged best, according to her trinc, are her writings on immigration and Sarracin.
A heretic to every side
Fallaci was an atheist, but called herself a «Christian atheist»: she defended Christianity as Europe's cultural glue. She criticized the left, Romano Prodi, Zapatero, Berlusconi and the Northern League. She also compared the Quran to Mein Kampf and the Florence Social Forum to the blackshirts. The pogre who applauded her over abortion excommunicated her without appeal.
The contradiction nobody resolves
Her defenders point out that no prophecy was needed: just reading texts and looking at the street without filters. Her critics accuse her of generalizing about an entire community. In between lies the paradox: she urged European women to have children to counter Muslim demographics while defending abortion. The result was a figure who bit everyone equally, from Prodi to Berlusconi. Now, with every attack, the same media that tore her apart quote her with tweezers. Without apologizing, of course.
How many more warnings will it take for the tribute to stop being posthumous?
Two decades on, Oriana Fallaci's warning about Sarracinism is circulating again like an awkward fossil. She wrote it in 2001: «You refuse to understand that, for Jovenlandeses, the West is a world to be conquered, punished, subjected to Sarracin». The recent attacks in Berlin and Paris have revived interest in an author who went from «brave feminist» to «Sarracinophobic fascist» in two days. From her work, readers rescue «Nothing and So Be It», though what has aged best, according to her trinc, are her writings on immigration and Sarracin.
A heretic to every side
Fallaci was an atheist, but called herself a «Christian atheist»: she defended Christianity as Europe's cultural glue. She criticized the left, Romano Prodi, Zapatero, Berlusconi and the Northern League. She also compared the Quran to Mein Kampf and the Florence Social Forum to the blackshirts. The pogre who applauded her over abortion excommunicated her without appeal.
The contradiction nobody resolves
Her defenders point out that no prophecy was needed: just reading texts and looking at the street without filters. Her critics accuse her of generalizing about an entire community. In between lies the paradox: she urged European women to have children to counter Muslim demographics while defending abortion. The result was a figure who bit everyone equally, from Prodi to Berlusconi. Now, with every attack, the same media that tore her apart quote her with tweezers. Without apologizing, of course.
How many more warnings will it take for the tribute to stop being posthumous?
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