10 January 2015 A.D. Oriana Fallaci:
Quotations on Islam from Notable Non-Muslims
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (1929 – 2006) was an
Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during
World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career, interviewing
many internationally known leaders and celebrities.
“Europe is no longer Europe, it
is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only
in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense... I am an
atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be
something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion... I am
disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans... Look at
the school system of the West today. Students do not know history! They don't
know who Churchill was! In Italy, they don't even know who Cavour was!...
Servility to the invaders has poisoned democracy, with obvious consequences for
the freedom of thought, and for the concept itself of liberty... State-run television
stations contribute to the resurgent anti-Semitism, crying only over
Palestinian deaths while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in
unwilling tones... The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is
directly proportional to our loss of freedom... The Muslims refuse our culture
and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my
duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my
civilization... The struggle for freedom does not include the submission to a
religion which, like the Muslim religion, wants to annihilate other
religions... The West reveals a hatred of itself, which is strange and can only
be considered pathological; it now sees only what is deplorable and
destructive... These charlatans care about the Palestinians as much as I care
about the charlatans. That is not at all... When I was given the news, I
laughed. The trial is nothing else but a demonstration that everything I've
written is true... President Bush has said, 'We refuse to live in fear.'
Beautiful sentence, very beautiful. I loved it! But inexact, Mr. President,
because the West does live in fear. People are afraid to speak against the
Islamic world. Afraid to offend, and to be punished for offending, the sons of
Allah. You can insult the Christians, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jews. You
can slander the Catholics, you can spit on the Madonna and Jesus Christ. But,
woe betide the citizen who pronounces a word against the Islamic religion.[88]
“The problem is that the solution does not depend upon the
death of Osama bin Laden. Because the Osama bin Ladens are too many, by now: as
cloned as the sheep of our research laboratories. In fact, the best trained and
the more intelligent do not stay in the Muslim countries... They stay in our
own countries, in our cities, our universities, our business companies. They
have excellent bonds with our churches, our banks, our televisions, our radios,
our newspapers, our publishers, our academic organizations, our unions, our
political parties. Worse, they live in the heart of a society that hosts them
without questioning their differences, without checking their bad intentions,
without penalizing their sullen fanaticism.[88]
“To make you cry I’ll tell you about the twelve young
impure men I saw executed at Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war. They
executed them on the field of Dacca stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or
abdomen, in the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name
of God from the bleachers. They thundered "Allah akbar, Allah akbar."
Yes, I know: the ancient Romans, those ancient Romans of whom my culture is so
proud, entertained themselves in the Coliseum by watching the deaths of
Christians fed to the lions. I know, I know: in every country of Europe the
Christians, those Christians whose contribution to the History of Thought I
recognize despite my atheism, entertained themselves by watching the burning of
heretics. But a lot of time has passed since then, we have become a little more
civilized, and even the sons of Allah ought to have figured out by now that
certain things are just not done. After the twelve impure young men they killed
a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to save his brother who
had been condemned to death. They smashed his head with their combat boots. And
if you don’t believe it, well, reread my report or the reports of the French
and German journalists who, horrified as I was, were there with me. Or better:
look at the photographs that one of them took. Anyway this isn’t even what I
want to underline. It’s that, at the conclusion of the slaughter, the twenty
thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers and went down on
the field. Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an orderly manner, with solemnity.
They slowly formed a line and, again in the name of God, walked over the
cadavers. All the while thundering Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar. They destroyed
them like the Twin Towers of New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet
of smashed bones.[89]
“I am not speaking, obviously, to the laughing hyenas who enjoy seeing
images of the wreckage and snicker good–it–serves–the–Americans–right. I am
speaking to those who, though not stupid or evil, are wallowing in prudence and
doubt. And to them I say: "Wake up, people. Wake up!!" Intimidated as
you are by your fear of going against the current—that is, appearing racist (a
word which is entirely inapt as we are speaking not about a race but about a
religion)—you don’t understand or don’t want to understand that a
reverse–Crusade is in progress. Accustomed as you are to the double–cross,
blinded as you are by myopia, you don’t understand or don’t want to understand
that a war of religion is in progress. Desired and declared by a fringe of that
religion, perhaps, but a war of religion nonetheless. A war which they call
Jihad. Holy War. A war that might not seek to conquer our territory, but that
certainly seeks to conquer our souls. That seeks the disappearance of our
freedom and our civilization. That seeks to annihilate our way of living and
dying, our way of praying or not praying, our way of eating and drinking and
dressing and entertaining and informing ourselves. You don’t understand or
don’t want to understand that if we don’t oppose them, if we don’t defend
ourselves, if we don’t fight, the Jihad will win. And it will destroy the world
that for better or worse we’ve managed to build, to change, to improve, to
render a little more intelligent, that is to say, less bigoted—or even not
bigoted at all. And with that it will destroy our culture, our art, our
science, our morals, our values, our pleasures...Christ! Don’t you realize that
the Osama Bin Ladens feel authorized to kill you and your children because you
drink wine or beer, because you don’t wear your beard long or a chador, because
you go to the theater or the movies, because you listen to music and sing pop
songs, because you dance in discos or at home, because you watch TV, wear
miniskirts or short–shorts, because you go naked or half naked to the beach or
the pool, because you *** when you want and where you want and who you want?
Don’t you even care about that, you fools? I am an atheist, thank God. And I
have no intention of letting myself be killed for it.[89]”
AND NOW, for illustrative quotes on Islam from the son and
grandson of Kenyan born Muslims, a world class and credentialed historian, and
a man notable for his robust and unimpeachable honesty and integrity, Imam
Barack Hussein Obama, see:
20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam and Mohammed
#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the
Prophet of Islam”
#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to
prayer”
#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic
faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including
in my own country.”
#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”
#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”
#6 “Islam has always been part of America”
#7 “we will encourage more Americans
to study in Muslim communities”
#8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold
in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the
dignity of all human beings.”
#9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in
competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and
progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”
#10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will
be – at war with Islam.”
#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent
extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”
#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before
coming to the region where it was first revealed”
#13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities
have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”
#14 “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through
words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”
#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity
and racial equality”
#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created
you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you
may know one another.’”
#17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating
Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”
#18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim
immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and
build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest
skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”
#19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership
between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I
consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to
fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”
#20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of
America’s story.”
AND NOW, for more
scholarly quotes from Imam Obama, see the URL.
OR, beside Imam Obama’s
insights above, a few Quranic verses that have insired many Islamo-fascists.
Qur'an 3:32—Say:
Obey Allah and the Apostle; but if they turn back, then surely Allah does not
love the unbelievers.
Qur'an 48:29—Muhammad
is the Messenger of Allah, and those who are with him are severe against
disbelievers, and merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and falling
down prostrate (in prayer), seeking Bounty from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure.
The mark of them (i.e. of their Faith) is on their faces (foreheads) from the
traces of (their) prostration (during prayers). This is their description in
the Taurat (Torah). But their description in the Injeel (Gospel) is like a
(sown) seed which sends forth its shoot, then makes it strong, it then becomes
thick, and it stands straight on its stem, delighting the sowers that He may
enrage the disbelievers with them. Allah has promised those among them who
believe (i.e. all those who follow Islamic Monotheism, the religion of Prophet
Muhammad SAW till the Day of Resurrection) and do righteous good deeds,
forgiveness and a mighty reward (i.e. Paradise).
Qur'an 4:24—Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those
(captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. Thus hath Allah ordained
(Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided
ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property—desiring chastity, not
lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at
least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree mutually (to
vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.
Qur'an 5:33—The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His
apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should
be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on
opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for
them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous
chastisement.
Qur'an 9:5—Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters
wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare
for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the
poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Qur'an 9:29—Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day
[notice it says "fight those who do not believe," not "fight
people who are attacking you"], nor hold that forbidden which hath been
forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the Religion of Truth,
from among the People of the Book [the people of the book are Jews and
Christians], until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel
themselves subdued.
Qur'an 9:73—O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the
hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the
destination.
Qur'an 9:111—Surely Allah has bought of the believers their persons and
their property for this, that they shall have the garden; they fight in Allah's
way, so they slay and are slain; a promise which is binding on Him in the
Taurat and the Injeel and the Quran; and who is more faithful to his covenant than
Allah? Rejoice therefore in the pledge which you have made; and that is the
mighty achievement.
Qur'an 47:35—Be not weary and fainthearted, crying for peace, when ye
should be uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never put you in loss for
your (good) deeds.
Qur'an 2:106—Whatever
communications We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than
it or like it. Do you not know that Allah has power over all things?
From the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for
Good Friday:
O MERCIFUL God,
who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made, nor wouldest the
death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live; Have mercy
upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take from them all
ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word; and so fetch them home,
blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the
true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our
Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world
without end. Amen.
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