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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 5 October 2001
Vol. 5, Number 80 (#605)
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Action Alerts:
01) New York: 7 Oct -- New York: Not in Our Name
Latest Anti-Fascist Readings:
Web Sites of Interest:
02) New York: Not In Our Name
News and Analysis On the Present Hysteria:
03) Brad Hunter (New York Post), "Neo-Nazi Americans Hail the Butchers,"
3 Oct 01
04) Ronnie Gilbert, "FBI Investigates Women In Black," 3 Oct 01
05) John Catalinotto (International Action Center), "In D.C. and
California Tens of Thousands March Against War," 4 Oct 01
06) Miguel Martinez, "Leading Italian Daily Spews Racist Hatred," 2 Oct
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ACTION ALERTS:
01) New York: Not in Our Name
Our Grief is not a cry for war
Sunday, October 7, 3pm
March and Rally
Assemble at Union Square
Interfaith Service 2:30-3:00 pm
Please bring candles and wear white for mourning and peace
Contact 212 228-0450
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LATEST ANTI-FASCIS READINGS
Latest anti-fascist readings available via:
<http://www.anti-fascism.org/page-read-af.html>
Antifa Info-Bulletin
Tom Burghardt's publication from the U.S. west coast
AntiRacismNet News
The info-bulletin from antifa.net
Evil Austria
online info-bulletin about today's fascism in Austria
NetAction Notes
Audry Krause's newsletter
RightWingWatch Online
People For the American Way tracks rightwing organizing
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WEB SITES OF INTEREST:
02) New York: Not In Our Name
Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War
http://www.nynotinourname.org/>
"We are a city in mourning. To honor the lost lives and our own humanity,
we mourn with the mission of preventing further horrors. We condemn the
attacks of September 11th. War is not the answer.
In the aftermath of this horror, we reject the acts of violence directed
against our Arab and Muslim neighbors. We reject all expressions of
racial, religious and ethnic bigotry and violence.
We come together in our commitment to a peaceful world, a peace built on
social and economic justice.
"Our Grief is Not a Cry for War.
"As the Pentagon gears up for their so-called new type of war, and as the
Justice Department pushes for new "anti-terrorism" laws which will cut
into our civil liberties, and as attacks on Arab-Americans and
Muslims and South Asians and other immigrants continue throughout the
country...it is time to make our voices heard.
Organized by a newly forming coalition of groups from diverse
communities and constituencies around New York City, we will gather united
in our rejection of war and racism... in our commitment to peace and
justice.
"Our day will end with a candlelight vigil and ask that you bring candles
and matches. We are encouraged to wear white, a traditional color of
mourning and peace. Bring your banners and signs. Bring your families and
friends and neighbors and co-workers and fellow students!
For more information, contact 212-228-0450...."
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NEWS AND ANALYSIS ON THE PRESENT HYSTERIA:
03) Neo-Nazi Americans Hail the Butchers
Brad Hunter (New York Post)
3 Oct 01
American neo-Nazis are praising Osama bin Laden in the wake of the horrific
attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. On Web sites and in
interviews with The Post, some fringe groups are expressing sympathy - and
even support - for the terrorists who snuffed out the lives of some 6,000
Americans.
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," said August Kreis,
a spokesman for Sheriff's Posse Comitatus and Aryan Nations, from his
compound in rural Pennsylvania.
Kreis, who spoke of "an ideological oneness" with the terrorists, has a Web
site that attacks the federal government, Israel and Jews, and praises the
"Islamic freedom fighters."
Billy Roper, of the National Alliance, echoes Kreis' rhetoric. In an e-mail
to NA members, which he said was pirated by the anti-racist Southern
Poverty Law Center, Roper wrote: "The enemy of our enemy is, for now at
least, our friend.
"We may not want them marrying our daughter, just as they would not want us
marrying theirs. We may not want them in our societies, just as they would
not want us in theirs. But anyone willing to drive a plane into a building
to kill Jews is all right by me. I wish our members had half as much
testicular fortitude."
Roper said his e-mail was "stripped of context," noting "most of the people
killed in the attack were whites, the very people the National Alliance are
trying to reach out to."
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04) FBI Investigates Women In Black
Ronnie Gilbert
3 Oct 01
For the second time in my life - at least - a group that I belong to is
being investigated by the FBI. The first was the Weavers. The Weavers were
a recording industry phenomenon. In 1950 we recorded a couple of songs from
our American/World fok music repertoire, Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" and
(ironically) the Israeli "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" and sold millions of records
for the almost-defunct record label. Folk music entered the mainstream, and
the Weavers were stars.
By 1952 it was over. The record company dropped us, eager television
producers stopped knocking on our door. The Weavers were on a private yet
well-publicized roster of suspected entertainment industry reds. The FBI
came a-calling.
This week, I just found out that Women in Black, another group of peace
activists I belong to, is the subject of an FBI investigation. Women in
Black is a loosely knit international network of women who vigil against
violence, often silently, each group autonomous, each group focused on the
particular problems of personal and state violence in its part of the
world.
Because my group is composed mostly of Jewish women, we focus on the
Middle East, protesting the cycle of violence and revenge in Israel and the
Palestinian Territories.
The FBI is threatening my group with a Grand Jury investigation. Of what?
That we publicly call the Israeli military's occupation of the mandated
Palestine lands illegal? So does the World Court and the United Nations.
That destroying hundreds of thousands of the Palestinians' olive and fruit
trees, blocking roads and demolishing homes promotes hatred and terrorism
in the Middle East? Even President Bush and Colin Powell have gotten around
to saying so. So what is to investigate? That some of us are in contact
with activist Palestinian peace groups? This is bad?
The Jewish Women in Black of Jerusalem have stood vigil every Friday for 13
years in protest against the Occupation; Muslim women from Palestinian
peace groups stand with them at every opportunity. We praise and honor
them, these Jewish and Arab women who endure hatred and frequent abuse from
extremists on both sides for what they do. We are not alone in our
admiration.
Jerusalem Women in Black is a nominee for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, along
with the Bosnia Women in Black, now ten years old.
If the FBI cannot or will not distinguish between groups who collude in
hatred and terrorism, and peace activists who struggle in the full light of
day against all forms of terrorism, we are in serious trouble.
I have seen such trouble before in my lifetime. It was called McCarthyism.
In the hysterical atmosphere of the early Cold War, anyone who had signed a
peace petition, who had joined an organization opposing violence or racism
or had tried to raise money for the refugee children of the Spanish Civil
War, in other words who had openly advocated what was not popular at the
time, was fair game.
In my case, the FBI visited The Weavers' booking agent, the recording
company, my neighbors, my dentist husband's patients, my friends. In the
waning of our career, the Weavers were followed down the street, accosted
onstage by drunken "patriots", warned by friendly hotel employees to keep
the door open if we rehearsed in anyone's room so as not to become targets
for the vice squad. It was nasty. Every two-bit local wannabe G-man joined
the dragnet searching out and identifying "communist spies."
In all those self-debasing years how many spies were pulled in by that
dragnet? Nary a one. Instead it pulled down thousands of teachers, union
members, scientists, journalists, actors, entertainers like us, who saw our
lives disrupted, our jobs, careers go down the drain, our standing in the
community lost, even our children harrassed. A scared population soon shut
their mouths up tight.
Thus came the silence of the 1950s and early 60s, when no notable voice of
reason was heard to say, "Hey, wait a minute. Look what we're doing to
ourselves, to the land of the free and the home of the brave," when not one
dissenting intelligence was allowed a public voice to warn against zealous
foreign policies we'd later come to regret, would be regretting now, if our
leaders were honest.
Today, in the wake of the worst hate crime of the millenium, a dragnet is
out for "terroriststs" and we are told that certain civil liberties may
have to be curtailed for our own security. Which ones? I'm curious to know.
The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech or of the press? The
right of people peaceably to assemble? Suddenly, deja vu - haven't I been
here before? Hysterical neo-McCarthyism does not equal security, never
will.
The bitter lesson September 11's horrific tragedy should have taught us and
our government is that only an honest re-evaluation of our foreign policies
and careful, focused and intelligent intelligence work can hope to combat
operations like the one that robbed all of us and their families of 6,000
decent working people. We owe the dead that, at least. As for Women in
Black, we intend to keep on keeping on.
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05) In D.C. and California Tens of Thousands March Against War
John Catalinotto (International Action Center)
4 Oct 01
Tens of thousands of people in Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles,
and thousands in other cities worldwide, demonstrated Sept. 29 against the
Bush administration's drive to war and in defense of Arab and Muslim
people living in the U.S. who have been subject to racist attacks.
Since the Sept. 11 destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, the
Pentagon has moved 28,000 troops, dozens of warships and hundreds of
bombers to the Persian/Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean, threatening to
strike Afghanistan and perhaps other countries.
The Sept. 29 protest actions in the U.S., called by a new coalition--Act
Now to Stop War & End Racism, or ANSWER-- attracted a rainbow-like
gathering of civil rights, anti- war, religious, solidarity, community and
student organizations, with some participation from organized labor.
Brian Becker, an ANSWER spokesperson, said the demonstrations showed
"there was a real coalition, broad enough and solid enough to build a
powerful movement in the United States against the war that Bush and the
Pentagon are planning." He announced at a meeting following the
Washington protest that ANSWER was proposing follow-up mass actions for
Oct. 27.
Increasing the significance of the demonstrations is that they happened in
the midst of a super-patriotic media campaign. The media gave 100-percent
backing to Bush's war moves. Some also stridently red-baited and violence-
baited the demonstration's organizers. But they failed to stifle the new
coalition.
On the contrary, the movement for peace--as reflected by dozens of
speakers as well as the marchers--was broader Sept. 29 than it has been
since the last years of the U.S. war against Vietnam.
At the Washington, D.C., rally, speakers from the area included Vanessa
Dixon of the D.C. Healthcare Now Coalition, Eleiza Braun of the George
Washington University Action Coalition and Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior
Minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church, showing that community,
student and religious organizations were strongly supporting the anti-war
coalition.
The mass anti-war sentiment in the Black community was also represented by
the Rev. Curtis Gatewood, president of the Durham chapter of the NAACP.
Rev. Gatewood had spoken out the week before against U.S. military action,
despite the patriotic stance of the NAACP national leadership. When the
national leadership chastised him for his statement, the members of the
Durham NAACP reaffirmed their support for Gatewood.
Here's a short sample of the diversity among the speakers in D.C.: James
Creedon, an emergency medical technician who rescued people at Ground
Zero; James Terry, Queer Youth for Social Justice; Sam Jordan,
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Amer
Jubran, Al Awda Boston; Sunita Mehda, Sakhi for South Asian Women; Marina
Alarcon, Mexican Support Network; Ray LeForest, District Council 1707,
AFSCME; Yoomi Jeong, Korea Truth Commission; Rusty Fabunana, Bayan
Philippines Forum; and Eric Le Compte, School of the Americas Watch.
MARCH BREAKS THROUGH ISOLATION
ANSWER organizers had told Workers World three days before the march that
the major purpose of the coalition event was to break through the
isolation people were feeling under the pressure of the pro-war media
campaign.
As the rally ended, the demonstrators took the advice of Mara Verheyden-
Hilliard, Co-Director of the Partnership for Civil Justice, and marched
out of the rally area at Freedom Plaza with determination, despite the
heavy presence of thousands of riot police, some armed with automatic
rifles and all armored.
They headed along Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol. The realization
that they had succeeded in their goal flooded over the marchers as their
route climbed a hill alongside the Capitol.
As the front of the march neared the top of the hill, people turned around
and looked back. A cheer went up as they saw that the march stretched for
blocks and blocks, tightly packed across the width of Pennsylvania Avenue.
"No war in our name," read one sign. "U.S. out of the Middle East," read
another. And everywhere, "Stop the war" and "Stop racist attacks." The
organizers would soon announce that some 20,000 people were there.
The sight of the vast crowd increased the excitement. As if invigorated by
the discovery that they had plenty of company in the fight against a new
war, students from dozens of universities accepted ANSWER's invitation to
announce their school's name and how many students had come.
"Vassar, 100!" "Gettysburg, where tens of thousands died in the U.S. Civil
War." "University of Minnesota." "Columbia College." "Bard College in New
York, 200!" Students streamed to the podium to shout out their
affiliations. There was Oberlin, Howard, four campuses from the University
of Wisconsin, plus dozens more. High-school students, too, spoke out
their presence.
It was another sign that people were motivated to bring the mood of the
demonstration back into their communities, where they would continue to
organize opposition to the war and racism.
HOW THE COALITION GREW
Before the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon had
altered the political climate in the country, anti-globalization groups
had planned protests in Washington for the week from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4.
Some estimates were that as many as 100,000 youths would come to denounce
the responsibility of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank for
keeping close to 2 billion people in the world near starvation while a
handful of big capitalists grew rich beyond all imagination.
The International Action Center--a key initiator of the anti- war march--
had scheduled a demonstration Sept. 29 to surround the White House,
focusing the protest against the Bush administration.
Then the attacks took place. The Bush administration and the U.S.
government in general used the events to put the country on a war footing,
while pressuring the media to whip up a patriotism and anti-foreigner
sentiment among a stunned population.
When the IMF and World Bank then decided to postpone their meetings, most
of the groups in the anti-globalization movement also cancelled their
protests. The IAC, said Becker, who is an IAC Co-Director, "decided it was
important to keep the date and turn its focus against the war, while
opening it up to all those who wanted to oppose the war drive and the
virulent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim attacks."
"We consulted with others and issued the ANSWER call," said Becker. "We
thought that even a few thousand protesting the war would show the world--
including the population here-- that there was more than just the official
pro-war opinion. From our point of view the turnout was a tremendous
success and the broad organizational support shows that a real anti- war
coalition exists and can grow.
"In the original call we suggested further action on Oct. 12- 13. But it
became apparent that we needed more time to use the impulse of the Sept.
29 march to organize other national or regional actions, so we have
adjusted this to Oct. 27," Becker said. "There will be a hard struggle
before us, but we have now seen what is possible and the potential support
that exists."
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06) Leading Italian Daily Spews Racist Hatred
Miguel Martinez
2 Oct 01
On Saturday 29 September 2001, "Corriere della Sera" gave its front page to
one of the most extreme racist tirades I have ever had the bad luck to
read.
To put things in focus, "Corriere della Sera" is not a skinhead broadsheet.
It is the leading daily of Milan, the industrial capital of Italy, and is
read throughout the country. Thousands and thousands of people go to work
on the subway reading it.
The article is by Oriana Fallaci, a retired reporter who in the late '60s
and '70s became famous for being a tough girl in tough places, like Vietnam
or Iran (they say that a good deal of her claims, like a supposed interview
with Khomeini or an affair with Fidel Castro, were entirely made up, but I
have no idea). She now lives part of the year in Florence, part in
Manhattan and she was there (or claims she was there) when the Twin Towers
were struck (she shows off by saying that she had "a feeling of danger"
impending, like in "all those fucking wars which have ruined my life").
Her very long article starts by claiming that "some people in Italy were
rejoicing like the Palestinians in Gaza, [shouting] "Victory! Victory" Men,
women, children". I have no idea where Oriana dreamed this scene up, but
her dream is enough to say "I spit" on such people.
Oriana claims "forty thousand, fifty thousand" people were killed in the
Twin Towers. She first claims the Americans will never let us know how many
people died, in order not to encourage terrorists, then she goes on to say
the US is vulnerable because it is a free and open country.
As far as one can make out any logic in what she says, she seems to say
Arafat was behind the attack - she also takes the opportunity to remind the
world that she once interviewed him: "If I met him again, or rather, if I
let him into my presence, I would shout to him who are the real martyrs",
not the suicide bombers who "are fucking huris in Paradise", but the
passengers on the aeroplanes.
She then makes the fantastic claim that "about twenty-four million
Americans are Arab-Muslims" (the actual figure for all Muslims, including
Black Muslims, is around 6 or 7 million, if I remember rightly).
"When any Mustafa or Muhammed comes, let us say, from Afghanistan to visit
his uncle, nobody forbids him [...] from entering a University to study
chemistry and biology (I hope they are going to change this) [...] even if
the government fears that that son of Allah is going to [...] throw a phial
of bacteria into the water".
The US, she tells us, is a "special country", courageously set up by
"illiterate peasants"; a few lines later, she tells us that the Founding
Fathers used to read Aristotle in Greek and Cicero in Latin. BTW, it is
interesting to see how the racist discourse is built up by presenting every
kind of "positive" data about "our" side, no matter how contradictory
(along with anything negative about the other side). She then tells us a
very romantic history of the USA, where the words "native American" or
"slavery" somehow never appear. She does claim that the USA has defeated
all kinds of wicked people, including the Nazis, the Communists, the
Fascists, the Vietnamese (because the latter now want to re-establish
relations with the US) and the Mexicans. That reminds me that I am of
Mexican origin...
She moves on to make an appeal to people who "are afraid of appearing as
racists". There is a "religious war" going on "aimed at conquering our
souls", "destroying our freedom and our civilization", "annihilating our
way of life and civilization", "our way of praying or not praying, our way
of eating, and drinking and dressing and having fun and being informed":
"If we do not fight, the Jihad will win".
"Christ! Can't you see that the Osama Bin Laden's feel they are authorized
to kill you and your children because you drink wine or beer, or don't wear
a long beard or a chador?" She then says she likes "Dante Alighieri more
than Omar Khayyam". The latter of course wrote a lot of nice things about
drinking wine, but Oriana probably does not want to know that.
Skipping from one idea to the next, Oriana then tells us that secular Iraq,
where nobody in the government wears a beard, where women walk freely
without veils, and which Osama has always considered to be an enemy, "will
provide chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear weapons" to the
fundamentalists.
"If America falls, then Europe will fall [...] instead of church bells,
there will be the muezzins, instead of miniskirts, chadors, instead of
cognac, camel's milk".
"In Italy the mosques of Milan and Turin and Rome are full of rogues who
sing the praises of Osama Bin Laden, of terrorists waiting to blow up the
Dome of Saint Peter's".
"Behind our civilization, there are Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle,
Phidias, by God! There is Ancient Greece [...] There is Rome [... ] there
is Christ [...] there is the Renaissance [...] there is science [...] which
has taken us to the Moon and Mars".
Of course, Homer and the Dome of Saint Peter's don't necessarily represent
the same view of life, and the West is *also* a lot of other things, like
two world wars in recent decades, but racists build their world pictures in
a selective fashion.
"Now what is there behind the other culture?" Nothing, of course. The fault
lies in the Qur'an, according to which "women are worth less than camels"
and "have to wear a chador" which "covers their eyes with a thick mesh" and
are "not allowed to go to school"; she also claims there is the "death
penalty for those who drink alcohol". "Osama Bin Laden claims that the
whole planet Earth must become Muslim".
Osama Bin Laden, she tells us, should be killed, but there is apparently a
lot more work to do. There are "tens of thousands of Osama Bin Laden's",
"everywhere, and the most aggressive ones are here in the West", among the
immigrant workers. "It is impossible to negotiate with them. Unthinkable to
reason with them. To treat them indulgently or tolerantly or with hope,
would be suicide". The reasoning is interesting:
a) Osama Bin Laden should be killed.
b) Every foreign immigrant in Europe is an Osama Bin Laden.
c) It would be suicide to tolerate them.
d) Notice that the obvious conclusion - gas chambers for "them" all - is
not specified.
She then boasts of several adventures she claims to have lived through in
far-apart countries of the Orient: she says for example that "that
Palestinian called Habash had his men point a machine gun at my head for
twenty minutes". Georges Habash was of a Christian family, a detail Oriana
somehow fails to mention.
After having accused every Muslim (and a Christian Palestinian) of being
violent, she then boasts of nearly having burned alive a group of Somali
immigrants all by herself.
Somalia was invaded and occupied by Italy for about six decades (a fact
which Oriana, who apparently thinks the West was only Plato, conveniently
forgets), so Somalis enjoy a special relationship with Italy. However,
since they have no officially recognized state today, Somali immigrants
have a very hard time: for example, a lady spent months in gaol here for
having brought in her child, since there was no embassy to prove it was
actually hers.
Last year, a group of Somalis - who were not of course Muslim militants,
but simply people with a serious problem - after getting all the necessary
permits, set up a tent in front of the Cathedral in Florence to collect
signatures. This is something *every* group with a cause of any kind does
normally.
Oriana says that this way "Somali Muslims defaced and shitted and outraged
for three months the main square of my city"; "blaming condeming insulting"
the Italian government which did not give them the papers they needed to
"bring in hordes of relatives" "mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters,
uncles, aunts, cousins, pregnant sisters-in-law".
She claims that some "children of Allah" urinated on the walls of the
Cathedral, something which she herself admits is physically impossible due
to the barrier in front of it, but never mind; she also claims that they
had mattresses inside the tent "to sleep and fuck on" and poisoned the
square with the smell and smoke of their cooking. She claims they had a
recorder where one could hear the voice of a muezzin - the little tape
recorder apparently was powerful enough to "drown out the sound of the
church bells". It is interesting to notice that Oriana apparently neither
saw nor heard the thousands of cars which pass constantly next to the
Cathedral, nor the millions of swarming tourists.
So she claims she went to a "nice policeman who runs the security
department" (?) and said: "When I say I am going to do something, I mean
it. I also know warfare and I know how to do certain things. If you don't
take away that fucking tent by tomorrow, I'll burn it. I swear on my honour
that I'll burn it". She then claims that the policeman "took the tent down
a few hours later".
One is left wondering whether she actually made this homicidal threat, and
if so, why the policeman, instead of arresting her as a potentially
dangerous terrorist, caved in to her threats.
The Somalis' problem with papers has of course nothing whatsoever to do
with the Egyptian and other suicide pilots in the US: people who belonged
to well-off families, and who we can imagine must have been the ideal
neighbours, since they never attracted the attention of the FBI even though
they came from the Near East.
Nor does this have to do with the fact that out of ten immigrants to Italy,
one (or less) is a bad apple (and certainly anything but a "terrorist").
However, Oriana goes on to say that Florence, "once the capital of art and
culture and beauty" is "wounded and humiliated" by "arrogant Albanians,
Sudanese, Bengalese, Tunisians, Algerians, Pakistanis and Nigerians" who
"sell drugs" and work as pimps. Of course, most of the Nigerians here are
Christian and the Albanians have basically no religion whatsoever, but then
that's Oriana for you.
After telling us that Osama is going to kill us if we drink wine, she says
that "they" (Bengalese? Tunisians?) "get drunk with wine and beer and
liquor" in front of the Church of San Lorenzo. She boasts of having kicked
one of "them" in the testicles.
She also claims that "they" have turned Turin into Nairobi and that the
buildings in Genoa have been "raped" by "them".
"Instead of calling them sons-of-Allah in Italy they call them 'foreign
workers'". "What kind of work do they do [...] camping in our cities with
the excuse of selling trinkets? Lazing around and ruining our monuments?
Praying five times a day? [...] And if they are so poor, who gave them the
money to come to Italy? [...] Is it Osama Bin Laden who is giving them the
money to start a conquest, not only of souls, but also of the territory?"
She describes the "wicked, twisted" faces of the immigrants.
Like many Italians with a bad conscience, she tries to distinguish between
the good Italian emigration to the USA in the past and the wicked
immigration to Italy today: the former was "not illegal", and the US "gave
them land". Whose land it was, Oriana does not tell us. It is also hard to
see why the fact that the hosting country changes its laws should change
immigrants from being good to bad, but never mind.
It is interesting to see how religious fundamentalism develops: Oriana has
always been a fierce enemy of the Catholic Church - she makes the unlikely
claim that the Inquisition, which ceased to exist even formally in the 18th
century - "burned her grandmother". Now, seeing the Muslims, she suddenly
decides that her country is Catholic and should stay that way: "there is no
room in our country for the muezzins, the minarets, teetotallers, their
fucking Middle Ages, their fucking chador [...] and even if there were, I
would not give them that room."
Remember the double-slap trick every sergeant uses to manipulate his
subordinates? "The 41st is the most glorious regiment in the army... you of
the 41st are the worst bunch of cowards I have ever seen". Oriana uses it
too:
"The wicked, stupid, cowardly Italy of the little hyaenas who would sell
their daughter to a Beirut brothel in order to shake the hand of a
Hollywood star but when Osama Bin Laden's kamikazes turn thousands of New
Yorkers into a mountain of ash which looks like ground coffee sneer
happily, the-Americans-got-what-they-deserved".
Racism works by constantly associating different things. Of course, any
person who would sell his daughter to shake the hand of a Hollywood star
presumably adores the US.
With the strict logic which is such a feature of racists, Oriana ends up by
saying that Italian politicians are losing their grip on syntax, and
Italian young people "play the role of wannabe terrorists in time of peace
waving black flags".
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This incredible article, published - as I said - in one of the main daily
newspapers of the European continent, without any apology, gives a
terrifying but authentic picture of how many, possibly most Italians feel
today, despite the hypocritical official position that "this is just a war
on terrorism, not on Islam".
People like Oriana Fallaci at least let the cat out of the bag.
If anybody wondered how Germany in the 1930's or Yugoslavia in the 1990's
could suddenly turn barbarian, well - here is the answer.
Genocide is possible.
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