Dinesh D'Souza has written another book. Of course, as always, it's about the evil American Left. But this time, it's called The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. Hmmm...
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From Publishers Weekly
Conservative pundit D'Souza (Illiberal Education) roots the blame for the 9/11 attacks in the left wing's "aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family" in this mostly lucid but unconvincing argument. Pointing to Hillary Clinton, Britney Spears and Noam Chomsky, he decries those who have teamed up with Hollywood and the U.N. to foist an irreligious, sexually licentious, antifamily liberal culture—epitomized by Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and gay marriage initiatives—on a Muslim world that rightly reviles it. By deliberately attacking Islamic values, the left tacitly allies itself with al- Qaeda in its effort to defeat Bush's war on terror and thus discredit conservatism at home, he asserts. But D'Souza's claim that Islamic extremists are inflamed solely by America's music videos and feminists—not its U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or American support for Muslim dictators—is too single-minded. For example, he paints Abu Ghraib poster-girl Lynndie England as the personification of liberal sexual depravity, without acknowledging that the U.S. Army sent her to Iraq, not the left. Charging that liberals aid terrorists while sympathizing with the terrorists' culturally conservative worldview, D'Souza's critique of American cultural excess trips over its own inconsistencies.
In other words: Dinesh D'Souza thinks the terrorists were right.
God what a moron. Did he ever stop to consider that, if the terrorists hate the “cultural left” and he hates the “cultural left,” that he’s siding with the terrorists? And that crushing the “cultural left” would be giving them what they want (in effect, “negotiating” with terrorists)? How much of an echo chamber do you have to live in to write such a thing?
and check out the excerpt on the Amazon page:
In this book I make a claim that will seem startling at the outset. The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11. … In faulting the cultural left, I am not making the absurd accusation that this group blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I am saying that the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world. The Muslims who carried out the 9/11 attacks were the product of this visceral rage—some of it based on legitimate concerns, some of it based on wrongful prejudice, but all of it fueled and encouraged by the cultural left. Thus without the cultural left, 9/11 would not have happened.
“I realize that this is a strong charge, one that no one has made before. …
Nobody has made that charge before? here’s Falwell and Robertson, two days after 9/11:
JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU’s got to take a lot of blame for this.
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.
JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I’ll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen’.
PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we’re responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.
not only is D’Souza an idiot, he’s also blithely ignorant. what a guy.
I am saying that the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.
This statement is just stunnig. Really, the primary cause?!!? The nonprofit sector? The Muslim world is mad at the United Way? The fact that we prop up despotic governments in the region and station troops in the arabian peninsula has nothing to do with it, of course. It’s all about Britney and Paris and their lack of panties. [many many many expletives deleted]
stunning even.
it’s hilarious. you know what he’s trying to say (Teh Left Its Bad!), but his words and examples and logic just fight him every step of the way. i feel sorry for him… a little.
i’d feel more sorry for him if his words weren’t ones that make me think of funny German words like ‘Dolchstoßlegende’…
And let’s not forget he’s blaming the victims!