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To: LindyBill who wrote (60690)	8/15/2004 8:08:43 PM
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: Newsweek Bashes Fallaci LGF Christopher Dickey of Newsweek International says Oriana Fallaci is “sowing hatred” and “kindling the flames of a new inquisition against Muslims:” Racism’s Rising Tide. Once again, the all-purpose smear—“racism”—is employed when it’s completely inappropriate. (Fallaci criticizes a supremacist religious ideology—not a “race.”) This article epitomizes what I call the “shared world view” style of journalism. Christopher Dickey is so confident that the reader shares his world view that he doesn’t even feel it necessary to deal with any of Fallaci’s writings on a factual basis; he simply quotes the statements he considers outrageously racist, as if the bigotry were self-evident, and moves on. And to back up his smears against Fallaci, Dickey calls upon ... none other than virulently anti-Israel NYU professor Tony Judt. Oriana Fallaci, now 74, has developed a niche all her own as a best-selling voice of fear and fury. Since her book-length essay “The Rage and the Pride” was published in the wake of September 11, she’s been kindling the flames of a new inquisition against Muslims in Europe. A more recent diatribe, “The Strength of Reason,” has sold 800,000 copies—ample evidence that Italians still have a ready appetite for her anger. Europe is no longer Europe, Fallaci argues, it is “Eurabia.” As far as she’s concerned, attempts by European governments to legislate tolerant, multicultural societies have been disastrous. “They don’t like me to say that Troy is burning, that Europe has become a province, even a colony of Islam and Italy is an outpost of that province, a bastion of that colony,” she writes. Ironically, Italy used to be considered one of Europe’s least prejudiced societies, at least in racial terms. But that was partly because Italians tend to be as suspicious of one another as they are of foreigners. “In Italy, outsiders can be from not very far away,” says Tony Judt of New York University’s Remarque Institute. In Genoa, for instance, a line could be drawn between those who speak the local dialect, and those who don’t. In Torino or Milan or Venice, it’s common to hear Sicilians and Neapolitans talked about, privately, as “Arabs” and “Africans.” Umberto Bossi’s Lega Nord, or Northern League, a fractious party in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government, built its base on just —that sort of rabid regionalism—and now plays politics with the country’s growing anti-immigrant sentiment. littlegreenfootballs.com