Oriana Fallaci RIP

She was one of the most fearless and courageous

defenders Western civilization had in

these latter days, and the West rewarded her

by hounding, persecuting and vilifying her.
Such is the state of the society and culture she loved and

tried to save from itself.
Many times in her last months,

after she did me the honor of calling me her friend,

I thought to myself, What can I do for Oriana?

Of course, the only answer was to

do exactly what I am doing here at

this site, and in my books, and in traveling

around the country speaking, trying to alert

people to the reality and magnitude of the global jihad.
I invite you, then, on this day of sadness and loss,

to pay tribute to Oriana.

There is no way we can make up for what

we have lost in her.

But the best way we can pay tribute to Oriana

is by becoming Oriana.

Let there be a hundred new Orianas today,

a thousand new passionate and articulate and

absolutely unbowed defenders of Western culture

and civilization, with a fine contempt

for all the many weapons of physical and

psychological intimidation that the

jihadists and their non-Muslim allies and

tools in the Western media and government

establishments use to try to

silence and discredit us.

Buy her books.

Give them to your friends and coworkers.

Explain to them why she said --

as is quoted in the obituary linked above --

that "Europe becomes more and more a

province of Islam, a colony of Islam."

Explain to them why that matters for

so much that they hold dear.

Enlist them also in the anti-jihad resistance.
And when we prevail,

we will be able to memorialize her fittingly,

as a light that shone in our darkest days.
May her memory be eternal.

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