Bin Laden, the Left, and Me (Dinesh D'Souza)

Washington Post ^ | 1/28/07 | Dinesh D'Souza

[livius]

I agree. D'Souza neglects the fact that Islam has always hated and wanted to dominate Christians and the West in general, long before abortion was legal and girls appeared in public in slutty clothing. Islamic "morality" is a patchwork of peculiar legal practices that permit 20-minute "convenience marriages," sex with animals and young boys, divorce of any of your multiple wives by simply saying the words "I divorce you," and the practice of chattel slavery with the treatment of the slaves as animals for sexual use. While they (theoretically) do not drink alcohol, virtually all males in traditional Islamic countries spend much of their day stoned on hash or qat. Not exactly a shining beacon, in my mind.

Islam can't attack the West when the West is powerful, and it doesn't even try; it only attacks when it perceives that the West is weak. What has happened now is not that Islam is enraged by the "immorality" of the West but that it has been encouraged by the weakness and dividedness of the West. D'Souza is right in assigning the blame for that to Carter and Clinton.

But the blame for Islam's hatred of us has nothing to do with our vices; it has to do with our virtues, such as respect for human individuality, the idea that human beings are created in the image of God and have certain God-given rights, and the creativity that wells up from a culture that respects reason and flows from a view of a rational universe created by a loving God. In other words, Islam's hatred of us flows from its own perverted and negative belief system.

What we have to do is keep them from thinking they might be strong enough to impose that system on us, and our ideological weakness and lack of committment to the positive values of our world-view, as expressed by Carter, Clinton and, to some extent, D'Souza, are what is encouraging them to think they might have a chance.

[BlazingArizona]

I lived overseas during the 1980s and saw the embarrassing offerings that American television provided to the world. All those night time soap operas led people to believe American women were like Joan Collins.

And why were these particular shows on TV in your host country? Because that's what the local market wanted!. Hollywood doesn't send out ninjas to force foreign countries to do their bidding unless it's an RIAA case.

[George W. Bush]

Good book, dumb title.

I can't believe he and his publisher went for such an incendiary title for a serious book.

[listenhillary]

It never occurred to be how Vietnam led to the present day Islamofacist movement.

Pretty clear now that it is pointed out.

[USMMA_83]

Denish is from India...he knows alot about Islam. He's lived with them in close quarters.

[petercooper]

bttt

[USMMA_83]

you got that right. For the Muslim, the US is taking over...McDonalds, KFC now...abortions, divorce, promiscuity is just around the corner...And that scares them....

[USMMA_83]

Good Lord no...who do you think does the programming there? Do you think anyone there has any idea they they want to watch "BayWatch"? It's the programming directors who put on the the soft porn...

[steve-b]

Even as the cultural left accuses Bush of imperialism in invading Iraq, it deflects attention from its own cultural imperialism aimed at secularizing Muslim society and undermining its patriarchal and traditional values.

If the Cultural Left is undermining a depraved culture that exudes its rotten pus in the form of terror and murder, then

RAH! RAH! GO CULTURAL LEFT!!