How did she supposedly "defame" the Muslim 'people'?

Dagger In Hand provided a summary of the offending passages that I posted previously. For sake of continuity, I again reproduce them here:

1) during the occupation of Montecassino in the 9th century "the Muslims amused themselves by sacrificing each night the virginity of a nun. Do you know where? On the altar of the cathedral."

2) while occupying Constantinople in 1453, the Turks led by Mohammed II "decapitated even newborns. And extinguished candles with their little heads."

3) "In a woman the Koran sees above all a womb to give birth."

4) "In the dream that the sons of Allah have been nurturing for years, the dream of blowing up Giotto's Tower or the Tower of Pisa or the cupola of St. Peter's or the Eiffel Tower or Westminster Abbey or the cathedral of Cologne and so on . . ."

5) ""halal butchery is barbarous" just as "shechita butchery is barbarous. That is, the Jewish version which is carried out in the same way and consists of slitting the animals" throats without dazing them."

6) France is a country "where Islamic racism, that is the hatred of the infidel-dogs, reigns supreme and is never put on trial, never punished. Where the Muslims declare openly: "We must take advantage of the democratic space that France offers us, we must exploit democracy, that is, make use of it to occupy territory." Where not a few of them add: "In Europe the Nazi position was not understood. Or not by all. It was judged a vehicle of homicidal folly, when actually Hitler was a great man."

7) for Muslims "biology is a shameless science because it is occupied with the human body and sex."

8) " . . . we will have to resign ourselves to the yoke of a creed that . . . instead of love spreads hatred and instead of liberty slavery."

9) "a Right and a Left . . . that (in Italy) are both on the side of the enemy (Islam)."

10) the demands of the Islamics with regard to school curricula mean that in literature classes "we will not be allowed to include for example The Divine Comedy . . .nor the Canticle of Creatures nor the Sacred Hymns of Alessandra Manzoni . . ." etc. etc.

11) " . . . the uncouth wailing of the muezzin . . ."

12) the terrorist attacks of the last twenty years have caused six thousand deaths "to the glory of the Koran. In obedience to its verses."

13) "Our Jesus of Nazareth . . . they put him in their Danna where he eats like Trimalchio, drinks like a drunkard, screws like a sexual maniac."

14) ". . . the revolting, reactionary, obtuse, feudal Right is found today only in Islam. It is Islam."

15) infibulation is "the mutilation that the Muslims force on little girls to prevent them, once they are grown . . . from enjoying the sexual act. It is a female castration that the Muslims practice in twenty-eight countries of Islamic Africa and because of which two million persons die each year from sepsis or loss of blood . . ."

16) the Italians afflicted by atavistic loss of pride "are not offended when Islamic immigrants urinate on their monuments or soil the sacristies of their churches or toss their crucifixes out the window of a hospital."

17) ". . . Islam is a pond. And a pond is a trough of stagnant water. . . it is never purified . . . it is easily polluted, like a watering hole for livestock of little value. The pond does not love life: It loves death . . ."

18) " . . .despite the massacres through which the sons of Allah have bloodied us and bloodied themselves for over thirty years, the war that Islam has declared against the West . . . is a cultural war. . .they kill us in order to bend us. To intimidate us . . . Their goal is not to fill cemeteries. Not to destroy our skyscrapers . . . It is to destroy our soul, our ideas. Our feelings and our dreams. It is to subjugate the West once again."

"Dagger" writes that ""Oriana doesn't really live up to her claim that this time around she is appealing solely to the power of reason and putting aside her rage and pride." However, "She does cite a lot of facts in support of her attacks on Islam, and as you can see several of the 18 sentences are simply 'historical assertions'. She doesn't provide any footnotes or sources for any of her facts though (no doubt Muslim historians paint things differently), and it is undeniable that the overall tone of her book is one of visceral revulsion for Muslims, not just rationally alarmed criticism of certain political and cultural developments in Europe.""

Although I find myself in agreement with "Dagger In Hand," that its "easy to understand why a Muslim who does not wish to blow up the Eiffel Tower or conquer the West would rightly feel that he was being stereotyped and hatred being fomented against him," Oriana is clearly stating her opinion of the Muslim faith. She has not taken a race of people and lumped it in the "Muslim" basket. She obviously has great contempt for Muslims and feels that the radical Muslims have hijacked the Muslim faith and are intent on forcing their version of Islam upon Muslims and non-Muslims alike(my words not hers), but she has said nothing racial or slanderous.

For the most part, she offers historical facts, although not sourced and to some degree disputable, but she is expressing her opinion. And certainly, a lot of people like the ones Fallaci describes "assuredly exist," and the gap will not be bridged by pretending it isn't there. But in a free society this sort of expression ought to be beyond the reach of legal sanctions, and in almost all free societies it does, Italy now on the verge of being an exception that, in a way, more or less makes Oriana Fallaci a prophet(of the ongoing Islamization of Europe).

Unless we are willing to sit on our hands and do nothing while Islam envelopes our societies, our ways of life, and denies us our freedom to practice our faiths, write what we believe, and say what we mean, than we must act together - Now!

Let's get an email campaign going immediately, and continue to blog at least one post a day about Oriana's case and others that threaten our freedoms and our faith. Our future, the future of our children, and the future of their children, is always influenced by actions that we take or fail to take, in our daily lives.

Let's do this, together!