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What is wrong with defaming Islam?

Washington Post:

A judge has ordered best-selling writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci to stand trial in her native Italy on charges she defamed Islam in a recent book.

The decision angered Italy's justice minister but delighted Muslim activists, who accused Fallaci of inciting religious hatred in her 2004 work "La Forza della Ragione" (The Force of Reason).

Fallaci lives in New York and has regularly provoked the wrath of Muslims with her outspoken criticism of Islam following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on U.S. cities.

In "La Forza della Ragione," Fallaci wrote that terrorists had killed 6,000 people over the past 20 years in the name of the Koran and said the Islamic faith "sows hatred in the place of love and slavery in the place of freedom."

State prosecutors originally dismissed accusations of defamation from an Italian Muslim organization, and said Fallaci should not stand trial because she was merely exercising her right to freedom of speech.

But a preliminary judge in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, Armando Grasso, rejected the prosecutors advice at a hearing on Tuesday and said Fallaci should be indicted.

What did she say that was not true? Perhaps she can remind them that the Earth still spins as it goes around the Sun. Islam is a religion that is apparently built on defaming Christianity and Judism, and every other religion that it bumbs up against. Perhaps one of the reasons the Muslim world is in the shape that it is, results from the inability to say how whacked some of things being said on behalf of Islim are. Shhhh. Don't tell them they are wrong about anything, they may throw a tantrum or worse.