Friday, September 15, 2006

THE DARKNESS CLAIMED HER NOT

Oriana Fallaci has died.

Wretchard has the best tribute I have seen:
And this time I paid attention, not to a woman in the autumn of her beauty, but to a warrior in the fullness of her strength. At the time of her death Oriana Fallaci was facing a suit in Italy for daring to suggest that her country and culture were under threat from radical Islam. In her youth she did not bow to Hitler; and in her old age she hurled defiance at yet another tyranny. The darkness came and yet the darkness claimed her not.


It is a sad day for those who love freedom and celebrate the human spirit.

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