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Example of Intelligence: An article by Roger Cohen, The Republic 09/03/2011

Spring and Winter Arab western

gave him a cap with the logo of the university - a tradition, he says, began with the same tribute to Nelson Mandela. Maybe you can fall lower but right now I can not imagine how.

Sir Howard Davies, rector of the London School of Economics had the decency to resign because of the financial hook University with Gaddafi and his errors on appeal. If only it were an isolated case. The Arab Spring is also the winter of the West. I am pleased that the U.S. and Europe support the awakening that goes from Bahrain in Benghazi. But I have not heard enough self-criticism. The U.S. Congress and legislatures in all Western should take questions: why we have supported, encouraged and exploited the brutality of Arab dictators for so many years? Up to that point cynically encouraging increases its despots that jihadist anger that Western societies are trying to curb? The West has long been aware of the misdeeds of people like Hosni Mubarak and Gaddafi. Hisham Matar, the Libyan acclaimed writer, has published a new novel titled Anatomy of a Disappearance (Anatomy of a disappearance) His father, Jaballa, disappeared from his apartment in Cairo in 1990, kidnapped by agents of the Egyptian security that took him to Libya. For more than ten years we have lost track of this man of culture. The last time he was seen by a former diplomat at the notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. His crime was to believe in democracy and freedom. It vanished, leaving a very good writer in pain, to ask - if his father is dead - "you know how, why and when it happened." Here the axis Cairo-Tripoli. Were comfortable, Mubarak and Gaddafi, for intelligence, illegal detentions, and the Israeli cold peace with the Egyptians, for oil and gas as the Libyans. They were also murderers. Gaddafi has massacred more than a thousand political prisoners in Abu Salim in June 1996. Jaballa Matar was among them? The names are important. The skulls in the sand were once sentient beings who call for justice. Throughout the Western world was complicit in pain Hisham Matar, whose first novel, In the Country of Men was scheduled for the Man Booker Prize. The West has embraced every Arab dictator overthrown by the people today who have rights and hungry for life. In an interview with the New Yorker Matar called this "the right time because the Americans to reflect on how thirty years have allowed their elected representatives to support a ruthless dictatorship like that of Mubarak. The time to ask, for example, what are the reasons that led to the current vice president of the United States to say, no later than Jan. 27, that Mubarak is a dictator. " I think Joseph Biden could give an answer. For many reasons I am opposed to a Western military intervention in Libya: the bitter experience in Iraq, the importance of Arab liberation movements, the ease of entry and the difficulty to get out, the allegations point to the West to poison the oil field and the fact that two Western wars in Muslim countries are inadequate. But the deeper reason is the moral bankruptcy of the West than the Arab world. The Arabs do not need U.S. or European troops to get the freedom that America and the EU have denied them quietly. Gaddafi may be weakened without Western military intervention. Can not Win an officer at the end I will explain. Timothy Garton Ash, in his book Facts are Subversive quotes the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz: "Do not think about safety. / The poet remembers. / You can kill - another one nascerà. / words and deeds will be recorded. "Yes, the poet remembers and acts of Gaddafi - his crimes - will be recorded. One day we will know what happened to Jaballa Matar and countless deaths. I just saw the wonderful film by Mohamed Al-Daradji, Son of Babylon, where a Kurdish Iraqi woman searches in vain son died in 1991 at the hands of Saddam Hussein. At one point he says: "I looked in the prisons, now I am among the graves." We give a name to the dead, a date for the crimes, and details of our complicity. I know that the world is unfair: no one has broken the words of Dr. Brahimi three months ago. All the more reason to be tough today. The protagonist of the new novel by Matar observes: "At times the absence of my father weighs as much as a child sitting on his chest." The search for - "in everything and everyone, the very existence has become evocative of a possible likeness. " The infamous Libyan regime that knows the answer must fall because they know the truth. It's time to closure.






rare example of gross stupidity, peppered with vulgar clichés, ignorance, rude and fierce anti-Islamism that disqualified the author:
Article by Piero Ostellino, Corriere della Sera 09/03/2011


The prophecy of Oriana (Fallaci)

The revolt of the people in African countries bordering the Mediterranean drawing, in perspective, two scenarios - one for those same countries, the other for Europe - asymmetric and even paradoxical. Scenario in the countries concerned: the fall of the tyrants who had ruled for a long time, keeping their populations in a state of backwardness cultural and political opening, perhaps, the possibility of their stabilization by the military juntas, equally illiberal. The hope of democratic development that the West should encourage in every way, it seems currently nearby. You can, however, the emergence of a globalist bourgeoisie, and utilitarian marketism to inject into the civil society, if not principles, at least social customs and economic closer to the West.

Scenario in Europe: 'arrival of masses of refugees, fleeing from those countries prior to their stabilization, threatens to increase the rate of' Islamisation '. The asymmetry and the paradox, of the two scenarios is that while some Islamic countries would step forward on the path of secularization and modernization, Europe would make it a back down to a more difficult coexistence between the two "civilizations" incompatible social and political as well than on the religious.

is the scenery - the "suicide of Europe" - Oriana Fallaci believed to have guessed after the attack to Twin Towers of New York. "A Europe that - then already written - is no longer Europe, but Eurabia." And so described: "In each of our cities there is another town ... A foreign city that speaks its own language and observes its own customs, a Muslim city. " "An enemy that in the name of humanitarianism and accept political asylum to thousands at a time (...). Never mind if the family is often composed of two or three wives, never mind if his wife or wives of the smashing blows, never mind if not rarely kills daughter in blue jeans. "

While denouncing "the indulgence of the Catholic Church (...) contrary to Islam that seeks the destruction of all Christianity, "Fallaci did not want to" promote a war of religion 'was limited to wonder what was "in a civilian of civilization that does not even know the meaning of freedom. " It was, therefore, (only) a declaration of a "diversity" that threatened to result in the anthropological defeat of the Jewish-Christian civilization and extinction of the weakest political culture, because it is more tolerant than liberal.

is hard to say - because it is too early to say - If the ominous prophecy of Oriana will be achieved. But, except - as you expected - that 'Muslims' acceptance of a dialogue with Christians, contrary to other religions (or atheists), is "social consequences" of the differences between Islam and Christianity, as Pope wisely suggests Ratzinger, however, it would have to open a dialogue with those who come from us. To find out if it really wants to live in harmony with us.

We would have done without publishing a succession of difficult to imitate vulgarity uncultivated as that contained in Piero Ostellino, "illustrious signature" (so to speak ..) of the Courier della Sera, but I am a strong supporter of the rule in Latin Uni que suum (To each his own). Piero Ostellino has recently revived his reputation by saying, commenting on the efforts of the erotic "Silvio National and handsome profits that they have secured a heterogeneous group of comely young women (some minor), that" She would do well to remember that sitting on his treasure. " The gimmick is a shining example of the account in which this gentleman holds the female, perhaps that's why imagine that Muslims used to cover the blows cut the throats of their wives or daughters of habit they wear jeans or take avalanche of wives, shut in a suitcase, transported in Italy are also in their from illegal migration. The argument is good to do some clarification:

1 - Almost all of the rights of the family of Muslim states have abolished polygamy, the rest of this practice is not one of those enhanced by the Qur'an admits that in the case of a father to give orphans married to the mother when it comes to a dead husband to the widow of his brother (the emasculated: existing practice among the Jews) or when a man wants to make a descent while having a barren wife (this widespread practice in the Jewish world)

2 - Over the past five years there have been three cases of women killed by their Muslim fathers for issues "of morality." At the same time Italian women killed by husbands, former husbands, lovers, former lovers, boyfriends, former boyfriends and relatives were usually several hundred. "What is the Christian habit of killing the women?". Of course Ostellino forget that in the Italian penal code until 1978 there was an article which punished with paltry penalties for murder because of honor (I saw the film by Pietro Germi, "Divorce Italian Style").

3 - In our countries, including Italy is not officially polygamy. But as there are men who with his wife hit affectionate friendships with one or more lovers?.

4 - I know many Muslim families and I do not ever come across in the case of a husband who kills and beat his wife. It is, moreover, that 60% of Italian women in the home suffers all sorts of physical, moral and often sexual.

Jesus said, "Why do you see the speck that is in your neighbor and do not think the beam in your own eye?". That brings us to question more seriously, what about The Prophecy of Oriana Fallaci, a Europe destined to become "Eurabia" due to the increasingly massive invasion of Arab immigrants (Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists), refractory to learn our language and tend to be committed to creating a nation foreign to the Italian, even if located on our soil. Again, they need a lot of details:

1 - The Arabs who come to Italy as immigrants are almost all from the Maghreb, and then French. The Italian and learn it quickly if they set their children a family should be in Italian schools and learn our language, so after a few years at home we speak only Italian;

2 - The vast majority of Muslim immigrants work and contribute to GDP of our country and to even the score dell'IMPS otherwise deficient. Unlike so many billionaires Italian tax evaders, the workers of Arab origin are charged taxes;

3 - The 'Eurabia "was not a prophecy that Oriana Fallaci has given birth in the night his delusions in the last years of his miserable and lonely existence but is was a historical and cultural reality in mind in the history of our continent:

A - The 'Eurabia lived for 800 years in medieval Spain and Sicily for 400 years. With it there has been a flowering of civilization and culture among the highest in human history. As Sheikh Feisal the Hashemite dell'Hezjaz, comrades of Lawrence of Arabia ("I still dream about the gardens of oranges from eighty mosques in Palermo and the University of Toledo where, by statute, had to teach teachers Arabs, Jews, and especially English and dream of the fountains and the mosque of Cordoba Granada, a city of half a million inhabitants it had in the ninth century km of public lighting in the streets at night;

B - The 'Eurabia' still exists today in about 300 words in our language that they speak with words of Arabic origin of astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, business organization, clothing and products of the earth, not to mention 20% of the words English language of Arabic origin. Escapes Ostellino that modern science has its roots in Arab culture of medieval Europe barbarized a grace which has taken over the rough and philosophy and the wisdom of Greece;

C - The 'Eurabia' is relived in some works of ' German Enlightenment, from Lessing to Goethe, who wrote that East and West were to merge into a higher civilization based on brotherhood, on beauty and tolerance. The chairman of the Federal Republic of Germany Wolff, in celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, said he was proud of the 3 million German citizens of Turkish origin and Islamic religion, while the English Constitution has put in writing his article that the Arab culture is a necessary element of the identity English;

D - The 'Eurabia "was actually living in the great dream of Frederick II excommunicated for his friendship with the sultan of Egypt from one of the popes to satisfy the instincts of the aristocracy and bloodthirsty marauders France, is organizing a crusade that Frederick refused. That dream paid off: the University of Naples School of Medicine Salerno was founded by the great emperor without papal bull, and he called to teach teachers Arabs, Jews, Greeks and Latins.

The list is long, but as Jesus said in one of his hadith, "Islam" (collected essays from Syria in the eleventh century):
"With the power that God has given me I have done many miracles, I made the walk lame, I have restored sight to the blind, cleansed the lepers, and I've even resurrected the dead. Only a miracle I was able to accomplish. Transforming a stupid smart person. "

Ostellino Council to read the following books: "Islam" of the German theologian Hans Kung, "History of the Middle Ages" by Umberto Eco.

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