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{{Short description|2001 book by Oriana Fallaci}}

==The Rage and The Pride==

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[[Image:TheRageAndThePride.jpg|thumb|right|Photograph of the cover of the US edition of '''The Rage and the Pride''']]

|name == The Rage and Thethe Pride==

'''The Rage and the Pride''' (''La Rabbia e l’Orgoglio'' in Italian) is a book written in the wake of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] by Italian journalist and author [[Oriana Fallaci]], which condemns [[Islam]] as a [[totalitarian]] force bent on destroying Western civilisation and attacks those in Italy and other Western countries who she believes have turned a blind eye to the threat of [[Islamic fundamentalism]].

|author = [[Oriana Fallaci]]

|image = The Rage and the Pride.jpg

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|pages = 187

|title_orig = La Rabbia e l'orgoglio

|genre = Non-fiction

|language = Italian

|country = Italy

|published = 2001

|publisher = [[RCS MediaGroup|Rizzoli]]

|isbn = 0-8478-2504-3

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{{Conservatism in Italy|Literature}}

'''''The Rage and the Pride''''' (''La Rabbia e l'orgoglio'') is a book released by [[Oriana Fallaci]] in 2001. The book accuses the West of being blind to the true threat of [[Islam]], and was written in [[New York City]] in the weeks following the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name="observer"/> The controversial book became a bestseller, selling over one million copies in Italy and 500,000 in the rest of Europe,<ref name="observer">{{cite news|url=https://observer.com/2003/01/the-rage-of-oriana-fallaci/|first=George|last=Gurley|title=The Rage of Oriana Fallaci|work=Observer|date=27 January 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221218103503/https://observer.com/2003/01/the-rage-of-oriana-fallaci/|archive-date=18 December 2022|url-status=live}}</ref> becoming number one on non-fiction bestseller lists in France and Germany.<ref name="upi">{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/11/12/Fallacis-Rage-and-Pride/33891037155902/|first=George|last=Jonas|title=Fallaci's 'Rage and Pride'|date=12 November 2002|work=United Press International|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413213029/https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2002/11/12/Fallacis-Rage-and-Pride/33891037155902/|archive-date=13 April 2024|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Content==

The book has been a bestseller in [[Italy]] and [[Europe]] where it has sold over 1.5 million copies.

In the book, Fallaci likens Islam to a "mountain which in one thousand and four hundred years has not moved, has not risen from the abyss of its blindness, has not opened its doors to the conquests of civilization, has never wanted to know about freedom and democracy and progress. In short, has not changed."<ref name="observer"/>

Fallaci translated both the French and the English versions herself.<ref name="upi"/>

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==Reception==

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In France, the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between People tried to get the book banned, but the request was rejected in court. In Italy, a booklet titled "Islam Punishes Oriana Fallaci", written by the president of the Italian Islamic Party, called for Muslims to "go and die with Fallaci." Fallaci consequently sued the author for slander and instigation to murder.<ref name="observer"/>

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[[Christopher Caldwell (journalist)|Christopher Caldwell]] described the book in ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'' magazine as "a philippic against Islamist terrorism and the cowardly Western elites who have permitted to blossom in their midst," that "for all her book's flaws, Fallaci is far more often right than wrong," and that "there can be no question that Fallaci is correct to say that some of the most extreme Islamist figures live in the West."<ref name="upi"/>

[[George Jonas]], writing for [[United Press International|UPI]] agreed with Caldwell, but criticised Fallaci's equation of Islamism with Islam. Jonas however wrote that Fallaci "is on solid grounds when she talks about Western elites. It's hard to disagree with her, for instance, that the statist bureaucracy emerging from Brussels and calling itself the European Union "is not Europe. It is the suicide of Europe."" He concluded that "when people of good taste and good judgment are afraid to speak up, they abandon the field to people of greater courage, if less taste and judgment. Enter Ms. Fallaci."<ref name="upi"/>

Fallaci herself attributed the success of her book to having put the finger on the nerve of Muslim immigration, "which grows and grows without inserting itself in our way of life, without accepting our way of life and, on the contrary, trying to impose on us its way of life," claiming that "people in Europe are so exasperated by the arrogance of most of these ‘invaders’ and being blackmailed with the unfair term ‘racist’ when they protest, that there was a kind of thirst for a book like this."<ref name="observer"/>

The book has retrospectively been considered one of Fallaci's books in the "[[Eurabia]] genre", being followed-up by ''[[The Force of Reason]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263485050|title=Eurabia Comes to Norway|page=3|journal=Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations|date=July 2013|doi=10.1080/09596410.2013.783969|first=Sindre|last=Bangstad|volume=24 |issue=3 |s2cid=145132618 }}</ref>

==References==

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{{Oriana Fallaci}}

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[[Category:2001 non-fiction books]]

[[Category:Anti-Islam sentiment in Italy]]

[[Category:Books critical of Islam]]

[[Category:Eurabia]]

[[Category:Works by Oriana Fallaci]]

[[Category:Anti-immigration works]]