Editing Oriana Fallaci (section)

== Personal life and death ==
[[File:Cimitero degli Allori, Oriana Fallaci.jpg|thumb|[[Cimitero degli Allori]], Oriana Fallaci]]

On 27 August 2005, Fallaci had a private audience with [[Pope Benedict XVI]] at [[Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo|Castel Gandolfo]]. Although an atheist,<ref>Gianni Pasquarelli, ''I naturali sentieri della tranquillità'', Rubbettino Editore, 2004, p. 132.</ref> Fallaci reportedly had great respect for the Pope and expressed admiration for his 2004 essay titled "If Europe Hates Itself".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGY5ZDJkZWQ2MzRjMmNmNzcwNzg5MjQ5NDgyYmU2YWE=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608020835/http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGY5ZDJkZWQ2MzRjMmNmNzcwNzg5MjQ5NDgyYmU2YWE=|url-status=dead|title=Phi Beta Cons on ''National Review Online''|archive-date=8 June 2008}}</ref><ref>[http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110006858 Prophet of Decline], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 23 June 2005.</ref> Despite being an atheist, in ''[[The Force of Reason]]'', she claimed that she was also a "[[Christian atheism|Christian atheist]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.antisharia.com/2011/11/13/oriana-fallaci1929-2006italian-journalist-and-feministwho-was-anti-islamalso-said-she-was-a-christian-atheist/|title=Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006), Italian journalist, atheist and feminist, who was anti-Islam, also said she was a Christian atheist|publisher=Anti-Sharia|date=13 November 2011|access-date=10 February 2016|archive-date=3 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103075812/http://www.antisharia.com/2011/11/13/oriana-fallaci1929-2006italian-journalist-and-feministwho-was-anti-islamalso-said-she-was-a-christian-atheist/}}</ref><ref>[[Mark Steyn]], [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/12/she-said-what-she-thought/305377/ "She Said What She Thought"], ''[[The Atlantic]]'', December 2006. Retrieved 7 April 2020.</ref> Fallaci was a vocal critic of Islam, especially after the [[Iranian Revolution]] and the [[September 11 attacks]] in 2001. When rumours of the construction of an Islamic centre in the city of [[Siena]] intensified, Fallaci told ''[[The New Yorker]]'' "If the Muslims build this Islamic center, she will blow it up with the help of her friends".<ref>{{Cite news|title=Oriana Fallaci, Incisive Italian Journalist, Is Dead at 77|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 September 2006|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/books/16fallaci.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317134742/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/books/16fallaci.html|archive-date=17 March 2018|url-status=live|last1=Fisher|first1=Ian}}</ref>

Fallaci died on 15 September 2006, in her native [[Florence]], from cancer. She was buried in the [[Cimitero degli Allori|Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori]] in the southern suburb of [[Florence]], [[Galluzzo]], alongside her family members and a stone memorial to [[Alexandros Panagoulis]], her late companion.{{cn|date=March 2025}}