"Inshallah" Oriana Fallaci
1990
If rain Masetti brought back memories of the night and his reading led me to the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and a book of his that impressed me in his day and today makes me reflect on current conflicts and the desire to establish democratic regimes in Western countries without a tradition or a substrate that human and cultural that makes this possible. Fallaci quotes St. Augustine when he says:
"You can not impose it by force, because the property tax will be transitional, while the harm done will remain."
tells us in this tremendous story the reality of the war Beirut, the Beirut of religious fanaticism and political hatred Beirut.
Throughout its nearly 700 pages you will find important clues for understanding the Islamic world and its radicalization.
In 1982 and 1983 have produced the first invasion of Lebanon by Israel and the killing of Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. International troops take charge of the protection of refugees and the interposition between different communities. Fallaci lives with the Italian contingent and thinks he sees in them the profile of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War.
the end we all are victims of war: Christian and Muslim, Palestinian and Lebanese men and women, Italian and French religious soldiers, all against all in which most victims are civilians and the battlefield is the city so the result is a beautiful anti-war argument.
inshallah is not a story but many, in total more than 60 characters, which are linked in a near-perfect plot where there are almost no loose ends ... and where you can see the stark reality: the pain, war, despair ... and also hope, the happiness and love.
When Angelo (if anyone can be called character is this character) wonders what is the formula used to life in chaos, there is another answer to the Arabic expression "inshallah" God willing, as God wills.
The result is an extensive, very human, which is read very well, though some lack of unity of the breadth of its objective. Oriana Fallaci
is undoubtedly one of the interviewers most daring of all time. Born on June 29, 1929 in Florence, Italy, this writer and journalist, was the eldest of three sisters who also worked the world of letters. Since a teenager, Oriana showed his courage and political commitment to join, during the Second World War, the clandestine resistance movement Justice and Liberty. " As a result of this activism, the Italian Army awarded a recognition of honor.
During his student days, Fallaci tried to train in medicine at the University of Florence, but abandoned that career to devote himself to journalism.
The glory years of the journalist were 70 and 80, when he got to interview all the great politicians of the time. The Florentine, made his hometown beautiful part of his crusade against the Arab- got so few women in the late 50's in the Italian press: to be shipped International.
Since 1967, he worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pakistan, Middle East and Latin America. Indira Gandhi
interviewed, Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa, Moammar Qaddafi, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon, Haile Selassie, the Shah of Iran, Deng Xiaoping, and H. Rap Brown, among many others. Got that Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto criticized both Gandhi in 1972 that a peace treaty between Pakistan and India came close to breaking by these statements.
then acknowledged subjectivity and personal connection with respondents who offended the Anglo-Saxon press, which defined, by the way, as a leftist.
Collection in the early nineties due to a serious illness, decided to write after the September 11, 2001, which he witnessed as a citizen neighborhood.
since she broke her silence with "The Rage and the Pride", dedicated his work "to defend Western civilization, not against Muslims, but against Islamic fundamentalism." In the opinion of the writer, there is an alarming process of Islamization of the West, which he called Eurabia, a process that in its opinion, would have enjoyed the complicity of the European left. These controversial thesis will hauled many problems (including prosecutions for "defaming Islam") and campaigns against them.
During the last years of his life, Oriana Fallaci was installed in New York, where he devoted himself to fighting breast cancer who, in literary form, called it "the other" and that eventually trigger, 15 September 2006, the death of this great Italian writer and journalist. How different that Fallaci, a victim of various cancers, in that it was irreverent to everything and everyone and covered the separatist war in Pakistan for what it essentially was: the result of bad faith bloody British at the time leave the continent. The Fallaci of his later years he complained that Europe never to rise again slightly less than once to kill Templars Moors and completely ignored the disgusting U.S. policy in the Middle East.
... extend [the dedication of this book] to anyone who in good faith grows in the blindness, deafness, ignorance and indifference but is willing to wake up to recapture a little sense common. Some reason. With reason, a little courage. With courage, a little dignity.
Oriana Fallaci, the prologue of "The Force of Reason"
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