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To: Yaacov who wrote (15640)	7/1/2002 6:12:09 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Yaacov, you're still a Milano dweller, aren't you? So you've probably heard of your countrywoman Oriana Fallaci, Judeofascism's literary star... Nazism's chef-d'oeuvre was Hitler's Mein Kampf but Judeofascism had yet to deliver its own "masterpiece". Italian author Oriana Fallaci took up the challenge: Rage and Pride --or rather, Wut und Stolz-- is gonna be the "Mein Kampf" of Judeofascists worldwide. Here's an excerpt: The same thing happens in other cities, I know. At Turin, for example. That Turin that created Italy and now doesn't even seem like an Italian city. It seems like Algiers, Dacca, Nairobi, Damascus, Beirut. At Venice. That Venice where the pigeons of Piazza San Marco have been replaced by little rugs with "merchandise" and even Othello would feel ill at ease. At Genoa. That Genoa where the marvellous palazzi that Rubens so admired have been seized by them and are now perishing like beautiful women who have been raped. At Rome. That Rome where the cynicism of a politics of every falsehood and every color courts them in the hope of obtaining their future votes, and where the Pope himself protects them. (Your Holiness, why in the name of the One God don't you take them into the Vatican? Strictly on condition, of course, that they refrain from shitting on the Sistine Chapel and the paintings of Raphael.) And here's something I really don't understand. Instead of sons of Allah, in Italy they call them "foreign laborers." Or else "manual-labor-for-which-there-is-demand." And I don't doubt that some of them work. The Italians have become such little lords. They vacation in Seychelles, come to New York to buy sheets at Bloomingdale's. They're ashamed to be laborers and farmers, and won't be associated with the proletariat. But those of whom I speak, what kind of laborers are they? What work do they do? In what way do they satisfy the demand for manual labor that the Italian ex-proletariat no longer supplies? Camping out in the city on the pretext of selling merchandise? Loitering and defacing our monuments? Praying five times a day? And then there's something else I don't understand. If they're really so poor, who's giving them the money for the voyage by ship or rubber dinghy that brings them to Italy? Who gives them the ten million lira a head (at least ten million) necessary to buy the ticket? It's not by any chance Osama Bin Laden looking to launch a conquest not only of souls, but of real estate? Well, even if he's not the one giving them money, the situation bothers me. Even if our guests are absolutely innocent, even if there's no-one among them who wants to destroy the Tower of Pisa or the Tower of Giotto, wants to put me in chador, wants to burn me at the stake of a new Inquisition, their presence alarms me. It makes me uncomfortable. And whoever takes this situation lightly or optimistically is wrong. And even more wrong is the person who compares the wave of migration hitting Italy and Europe to that which spilled into America in the second half of the 1800's or rather at the end of the 1800's and the beginning of the 1900's. Now I'll tell you why. [snip] entropy.brni-jhu.org