Worth reading

The Jihad Against Muslims, Reason Magazine:

Likewise, the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci’s 2002 book The Rage and the Pride makes hardly any distinction between radical Islamic terrorists and Somali street vendors who supposedly urinate on the corners of Italy’s great cities. Christopher Hitchens, who described the book in The Atlantic as “a sort of primer in how not to write about Islam,” correctly notes that Fallaci’s diatribes have all the marks of other infamous screeds about filthy, disease-ridden, sexually threatening aliens. Yet The Rage and the Pride received only slightly qualified praise in conservative publications such as National Review and Commentary. Writing on National Review’s staff blog, The Corner, the neoconservative pundit Michael Ledeen hailed it as “a terrific book” and commended Fallaci’s “wonderful way with words, as in ‘the children of Allah spend their time with their bottoms in the air, praying five times a day.’”