Alessandro Gnocchi
Ed. Melville, Siena 2016
pp. 175
"With anger and pride, the first and so far only controversy on a national scale begins on issues such as immigration, Europe's identity crisis, the dangers of Islam and the irreconcilability of its values with ours. For the first and so far last time Italy can touch with hand what is the politically correct and what effects it has produced. It is a fact that the problem of Islamic fundamentalism enters permanently in public discussion only with Fallaci."This is how Alessandro Gnocchi, editor-in-chief of the Culture and Performances section de The newspaper, presents the object of this book which is very timely, given the fatal events that have hit Europe in recent years. Written to ten years after the death of Oriana Fallaci, occurred in 2006, the arguments reported in it that represent the thought of the writer expressed as well as in "The Rage and the Pride" (2001), also in "The Force of Reason" ( 2004) and in "Oriana Fallaci interviews herself - L'Apocalisse" (2004), lead us to reflect on the fact that "Italy, not very patriotic and not very proud of its culture, could be overwhelmed by the strong identity claims of Muslim immigrants. [...] Eurabia is a reality. Our cities contain other cities where Sharia is in force. The directors have already renounced to assert the Italian law in the neighborhoods where the Muslim presence is massive."The numerous critics instead of, however, enter into the merits of Fallaci's arguments that sometimes may not convince,"they prefer to counteract verbal exaggerations and accessory matters. It is precisely this that makes the politically correct: shifting attention from reality to words by offering the unfounded impression of making culture or even politics. Oriana Fallaci, with the clarity of her positions, forces instead to reflect on the role that Italy wants to assume in the world and on what it means to be Italian at the beginning of the new millennium. Questions still waiting for an answer."
The debate does not only concern Italy, but also France with the writer Renaud Camus who in his book "Le Grand Replacement " (The great substitution) addresses the problem of the loss of national, cultural and religious identity, also due to the demographic imbalance, and with the journalist Eric Zemmour and his book "Le Suicide Français " (French suicide). Even in England there is a heated debate with journalist Cristopher Caldwell (author of The Last Revolution of Europe) and with the academic Paul Collier (author of Exodus). Giovanni Sartori, in "Pluralism, multiculturalism and strangers (2000) and" Essay on multiethnic society "(2002) also addresses the thorny issue of immigration:"immigration is not at all destined to slow down, rather it will grow. The problem of integration arises. Granting citizenship is not the right way. To be a citizen we must recognize and accept the pillars of the society in which we are welcomed. But this is very difficult, perhaps impossible, if the immigrant belongs to a fideist or theocratic culture that does not separate the civil state from the religious state and that reabsorbs the citizen in the believer. The Muslim recognizes full citizenship only to the faithful. [...] Islam does not recognize the separation between State and Church, between law and religion. Sin is the basis of our civilization."The Fallaci was therefore not the only one in Europe to try to reflect on the future effects of uncontrolled immigration. He did it, however, in his own way and was fiercely attacked even by those who had dared to 11 2001 September, so as to come to argue that the cancer that was wearing her brain upset, making it Islamophobic and that the " Trilogy was the delirium of a woman too ill to understand. "An attempt to delegitimation culminated in the four trials that the writer had to suffer because of the Trilogy -"which is also an invective against the politically correct and against the hypocrisy erected as a cultural system"- where he claimed that"the fight against Islam is not a battle against the immigrant. It is a war against theocracy introduced sneaking in democratic countries. It is a war against indifference with which the whole of Europe surrenders to decadence and surrenders to moral decrepitude. It is a war against intellectuals who subordinate their culture to that of others in order to expiate the sins of colonialism or in accordance with the politically correct. It is a war against the European ideology which prescribes the renunciation of one's own identity to welcome the Other from oneself. Even if the Other, according to Fallaci, does not intend to integrate and shows contempt for the culture of those who host it."His death prevented reaching the verdict.
Gianlorenzo Capano
