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Radical islam fails becuase its followers don't allow criticism

Kathleen Parker:

So goes my prayerful response to news that Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci will be prosecuted on charges of "outrage to religion." Apparently, the outspoken Fallaci, now in her 70s, has offended some disciples of Islam with her book, "The Force of Reason," and, by Allah, they intend to see she pays for it.

At least they didn't shoot her.

Yet.

You'll recall that last year in Holland, filmmaker Theo van Gogh was fatally shot and stabbed for work deemed unflattering to Islam. A fellow named Mohammed B. confessed to the murder. Recently, two more suspects, both Chechen citizens believed to be linked to a group of Islamic fundamentalists, were arrested in connection with the crime.

Both of these incidents followed another high-profile episode of perceived offense to Islam. In 2002, French author Michel Houellebecq faced trial for calling Islam "the dumbest religion," and for saying the Koran was so badly written it made him "fall to the ground in despair."

The courts acquitted him, but the trend is clear. Criticize Islam and face jail or justice at the hands of a true believer. Is it possible that radical Islam really does hate freedom?

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Our own laws against hate speech, though perhaps inspired by virtue, are nevertheless first steps toward the sort of tyranny that now threatens to bring down Fallaci.

And for what? Because some thin-skinned fanatics find her words too painful - or too truthful - to bear?

Fallaci fans know her to be a take-no-prisoners journalist who says what people are thinking but dare not utter aloud. I haven't read the book in question, but I have a copy of her previous book, "The Rage and the Pride," on my desk and it is no valentine to Islam.

Nor to others Fallaci finds ethically weak, in her words: "insects who, disguised as ideologists, journalists, writers, actors, commentators, psycho-analysts, priests, warbling crickets, putains a la page, (that is, polished sluts), only say what they are asked to say." Just to give you a taste.

She is equally blunt in her warnings that to the world's jihadists, "...the West is a world to conquer and subjugate to Islam."

Radical islamist are emotionally immature tantrum throwers who can't stand to have their weird ideas criticized.