Tell you what Italy, Come and get her.

[Raider179]

ROME (Reuters) - 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.There was no immediate comment from Fallaci who is in her 70s and suffers from cancer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052500470_pf.html

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."

[Fishu]

has regularly provoked the wrath of Muslims

Sounds like shes right. Time for the muslims to take a look in the mirror.

[JimBear]

ya,  only the U.S. Government is allowed to demand extradition for crimes or events that happened outside its borders to people not its citizens.

[Rino]

Originally posted by JimBear
ya,  only the U.S. Government is allowed to demand extradition for crimes or events that happened outside its borders to people not its citizens.

     Writing a book is a crime or event?

[JimBear]

As defined by that particular court, that authors book was

(no I dont agree with it)

But the United States does seek extradition of suspects without providing prima facie evidence of a crime.  The list is long

[Furious]

but it is a stupid arguement in this context.  why persist?

[AWMac]

Originally posted by Rino
Writing a book is a crime or event?

Let me ask Salman Rushdie.....brb

[slimm50]

Originally posted by AWMac
Let me ask Salman Rushdie.....brb

I'm holding my breath til you get back.

[GREENTENERAL]

Originally posted by slimm50
I'm holding my breath til you get back.

I'm Salman Rushdie, and I say......well I'm not really Rushdie, but I hope slimm50 got a breath in.  Or should we referr to you as blue50 by now?

I do think it is funny that people can get their little panties in bunch over the written word (especially with the illiteracy rate being so high) LOL!

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Raider179
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.

Of course, we all know how hard it is to provoke muslim wrath.