Author Blames 9/11 On ‘Cultural Left'

Newsmax ^ | January 16, 2007 | Paul Crespo

[DakotaRed]

Author Blames 9/11 On ‘Cultural Left'

Paul Crespo

Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007

When it comes to laying blame for Sept. 11 – the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor – one of America's foremost thinkers says it doesn't lay with the terrorists.

Instead, America's enemies are right beneath our noses. Dinesh D'Souza identifies them as our "cultural left."

D'Souza is the best-selling author of "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus," and helped coin the term political correctness. His latest controversial work is appropriately called "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11" (Random House).

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But before every liberal in America blows a collective gasket, the term "cultural left" to D'Souza doesn't refer to the Democratic Party, or to all liberals. Nor is he saying that anyone on the cultural left actually attacked us on 9/11. And the book avoids much of the strident rhetoric seen in other "liberal-bashing" books.

"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," explains D'Souza.

[DakotaRed]

Even with the claim of not being a "liberal-bashing" book, I can only imagine the "outrage" at DU, Kos and other such left leaning arenas.

[Rome2000]

The longer the leftists are allowed to run amok without being appropriately dealt with the bigger the loss of life will be.

[tophat9000]

I just posted something in the same vein today... the left and Islamofascist are allies now .. because they have a common enemy...US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767920/posts?page=43#43

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Well the thing, we are at war here in this country... that not a metaphorical exaggeration of our current politics...
We are at war here in this country with a group of people who's goal is to break this country will to fight,to destroy U.S., as a sovereign country, as a people, as even an idea

War may be politics by other means, but there come a point when politics is war by other means...and war real goal is alway to break the will of the enemy (we are the enemy and the left is out to break the will and destroy the very soul of our country)

That our problem on the right... the left fights us like we know to fight the enemy (to totally break the will to resist)...but we fight the left like the left tells us to fight the enemy (in wimped out, just get a long, head in the sand, appeasement)

When it comes to the war at home with the totalitarian left out to destroy this country... we seem to be the French surrender monkeys...we need to wake to this reality...we are at war...here... and we have to start putting our asses on the line an confront these people, in the schools in the media, in the public square, in every aspect of the debate

We are at war with these people,we have to be, ever minuted, every hour, every day

[Screamname]

But before every liberal in America blows a collective gasket, the term "cultural left" to D'Souza doesn't refer to the Democratic Party, or to all liberals.

I do. It was the Clinton holocaust that allowed terror to grow and run amok for 8 years, something we are still having to clean up and deal with and probably will for years if not decades to come. And not only that, the liberals are doing everything they can to stop that clean up and make it even worse by starting another Clinton holocaust in `08.

"How does it feel to be the first "First man" Billy?"

[sageb1]

I'm not going to do the common ground bit with Islam. Sorry.

[ellery]

Oh, give me a break. Now terrorists are not to blame for attacking us -- instead, our political enemies are? Please.

[lightman]

I'm not going to do the common ground bit with Islam. Sorry.

Seems like this author is spouting the same line that Rev. Jerry Foulmouth spewed and then recanted in the days following 9-11.

[trumandogz]

Perhaps, if we were to adopt Islamic Law the terrorist would not be mad at us anymore.

However, I would prefer the attack us everyday rather than live under islamic Law.

[Rurudyne]

Well said, but those who of socialist bent these days are more likely to emote: "Give me peace or give me your terms!" than anything that Patrick Henry would approve of.

[mc6809e]

He argues that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies – especially traditional and religious ones – and by promoting, at home and abroad, an anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of the world.

Muslims and other traditional people around the world allege that secular American values are being imposed on their societies and that these values undermine religious belief, weaken the traditional family, and corrupt the innocence of children. D’Souza contends that it is not “America” that is doing this to them, but the American cultural left. What traditional societies consider repulsive and immoral, the cultural left considers progressive and liberating.

I'd say he's absolutely correct.

[durasell]

He argues that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies – especially traditional and religious ones –





I'd say that American culture -- decadent, not decadent, or total crap -- should not be censored or tailored to suit other cultures. I'll argue and discuss pop culture all day with American religious folks, but not with someone outside the country.

[spinestein]

["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," explains D'Souza.]



Baloney!

I'm willing to go as far as to blame the pacifistic ideology among the cultural left for interfering with the necessary and proper response to the Jihadists, but to blame them for being a root cause is just plain wrong.

The Jihadists have only one motivation: to force an Islamic theocracy on the rest of the world, and kill anyone who doesn't agree.

[HawaiianGecko]

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Muslims and other traditional people around the world allege that secular American values are being imposed on their societies and that these values undermine religious belief

 

OK, so we should get rid of the left and then impose Christian evangelical values on Muslims and other traditional people.  I'm sure they'll enjoy that.

 

As screwy as our left is, they're our left and they are no more responsible for 911 than the right or the Jews or any other hair-brained conspiracy theory out there.  It never ceases to amaze me when I read crap like this.

 

[mc6809e]

I'd say that American culture -- decadent, not decadent, or total crap -- should not be censored or tailored to suit other cultures. I'll argue and discuss pop culture all day with American religious folks, but not with someone outside the country.

And I agree with that. Maybe it would have been better if D'Souza had said that the cultural left was the target of the jihadists.

But there are two parts to what he's saying. The other is that the cultural left are often very anti-american and that has played a role, too.

Just look at what's been going on south of the border. I hear the same thing coming out of the mouth of Chavez that I hear coming from the academic left in this country. I swear Chavez must have read Noam Chompsky.

[TASMANIANRED]

He is right and they will howl over it.

[ClaireSolt]

WE have as little control over the cultural left as moderate Muslims have over jihadis.

[DakotaRed]

What I glean from what was written in the article, is that the left has been blaming terrorism on the right since it first reared it's ugly head. They accuse of us of oppressing Arabs, stealing their oil, supporting Israel in an illegal occupation, yadda, yadda, yadda.

However, while they do have a hatred of Israel that cannot be tolerated, the more mainstream Muslims, not the Jihadists, see the agenda of the left as threatening them, not us buying their oil.

Of course, radical Jihadists have seized upon this encroachment of the "if it feels good, do it" attitude of the left and twisted that fear into a hatred of the West to further their own hateful agenda of world domination.

In more simple terms, the left continually absolves themselves of any blame for terror, but a large part is actually due to them.

The left continually points fingers elsewhere without ever looking in the mirror and seeing what they are causing themselves.

It doesn't mean we join forces with them, but it does place a good portion of blame right where it belongs, the lefts forcing their lifestyle on all others.

Maybe, just maybe, radical Jihadists wouldn't be able to recruit if we could somehow show that the west isn't the threat to their lifestyle that the radicals make us out to be. It won't stop the radicals, but possibly could take some wind out of their sails.

[JasonC]

The left condemned America as the focus of evil in the modern world for 70 years at the top of its lungs. Half the world listened and hates America. And you bet they are fully to blame for their part in that.

[JasonC]

The left has spread blood libels against capitalism, corporations, the west, the US military, and just about everything that actually realistically works in the modern world. Like spoiled children, they think there will be no consequences to their endless bawling except an attentive if annoyed parent trying to placate them by giving them whatever they want. But what it has actually bred is several whole generations of out and out murderers who feel as morally justified killing Americans as you would feel killing jackbooted Nazis straight from Dachau.

Libel kills. It is not innocent.

[eric_da_grate]

Oh, give me a break. Now terrorists are not to blame for attacking us -- instead, our political enemies are? Please.,

Among the jihadists, they view the Democrats victory in November as the most favorable good fotune they've had in awhile. The left is easily manipulated and eager to please every single enemy we've got on this planet. The American left's only enemies on this planet are domestic. Islamics know that. It's a mortal weakness in the left that islamists find detestable and cowardly, but very useful to their aim.

Would it surprise anyone here if tomorrow morning Ahmadinejahd personally invited Kennedy, Clinton and Reid over to Tehran for a closed-door pow-wow?