Friday, 11 October 2013

The Force of Reason by Oriana Fallaci

There is a major problem when journalist turn into scholars. How do you not care about potential opprobrium having spent most of your career in the super ambitious world of journalism? As proof consider Oriana's very very long introduction to her book where she is defending her narrative before anyone has had a chance to read it yet. The introduction is thus setting herself up as a courageous academic, a lone voice among the countless others spineless herd which choose to ignore the threat which immigrant Muslims bring to Europe. She then states comparing all Islamic settlers in Europe without giving much of a thought to exactly where they hail from. So Indonesians are the same as Palestinians just because they are Muslim in her valued opinion. She also sees Muslims breeding like rabbits which will surely take over Europeans pretty soon. Where is the evidence that Muslims have taken over? In UK for instance most Muslim politicians have chosen to join the mainstream political parties instead of creating their own. So where is the threat as clearly majority of Muslims in UK want to be associated with the mainstream and not with any Sharia enforcing third party. In fact in UK there are a number of anti-Islamic political parties denouncing Muslim invaders in UK. Ever wondered why Pakistanis and Indians tend to invade UK only mainly Oriana? Because India was a former colony maybe similar to Algerians in France. Who was invading who? But this tiny little point does not seem to make it into Oriana's narrative as it is pretty irrelevant to her case.The truth is that majority Muslims are economic immigrants in Europe who choose to integrate withEuropean culture. There is a small minority who are fundamentalist. This book is written with that minority in view, a minority who is not even allowed to preach in most mosques! The only people really interested in the minority view is people like Oriana and mainstream media when they want to ostracise all of Islam with a wide brush. Oriana seems to have achieved her objective by selling quite a few of her very ordinary book. The real danger, fear is not Islamism, but sharing jobs and opportunities at the grass root level in Europe. What can the Muslims do when most of the world resources are plenty full in the West as compared to their own countries? Are the Muslims supposed to stay content where we are making 10% of what a similar worker gets in Europe? I myself am a modern Muslim invader in Oriana's Europea, but so far seemed to have only a quiver to write two books and improved my tennis over the 13 years of jihad. And no, I am not an exciting halal butcher, just an ordinary boring 9-5 IT worker, trying to provide the most for my two kids (not five) from my one wife.
I am afraid the critics are right Oriana, you were demonised for your highly one sided and prejudiced narrative, not for being courageous as plenty of others are openly attacking so called 'Islamic' invaders of Europe.
The book was a waste of my time. I did not find any balanced resonate argument in this 300 page book. It seemed to be ravings and ranting of an old woman, who goes on and on when given the pulpit.
Lastly, how can Oriana claim to be representing a beleaguered minority when her book has sold millions of copies in Italy?

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