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“The Force of Reason” begins with the execution of Mastro Cecco, a scholar who in 1328 was burnt alive for heresy by the Inquisition because of his books, and ends with the equally heretical Fallaci who seven centuries later is burnt like him in an imaginary auto-da-fe’. Between the first and the second stake, a rigorous analysis of what she calls the Burning of Troy: the decay of a Europe, which in her view is no longer Europe, it is an Islamic colony named Eurabia.
Description
The analysis proceeds through historic and political and moral topics, as usual facing issues that nobody dares to face. Readers will find in it a fountain of ideas expressed also through her person. (Startling the pages about the abuses and the life-threats she bears for her opinions. Unforgettable is the chapter where she defines herself as a Christian-atheist. The maturity of thought is extraordinary, and impeccable logic often accompanied by an irresistible sense of humour), and, above all, the courage, the noble heart of a woman who does not know fear. Oriana Fallaci, initially only wanted to write a post-script to “The Rage and the Pride”: But when she concluded the work she realized she had written another book from which still another would arise to compose her Trilogy on Islam and the West: “Oriana Fallaci interviews herself” and “The Apocalypse”.
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