Unquiet on the Western Front
Charles Johnson
Fri Jan 31, 2003 at 6:59 pm PST • Views: 148
A short interview with Oriana Fallaci in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine: Unquiet on the Western Front. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.)
Your post-Sept. 11 sermon, ”The Rage and the Pride,” about the threat from Islamic fundamentalism, is full of anger.
Very. I was bleeding when I wrote. It is an unrestrainable cry, during which I said the truth that I had never said before.
After the stir it has caused around the world, are there parts you wish you had said in a gentler fashion?
Not a word. When I read it again for a translation, I say I was too tender. There is nothing that I would withdraw.
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