"...the blowback of Islamic rage."
Assigning the underlying motivation to attack and terrorize the West and the USA in particular to "Islamic rage" is beyond a simplification and demonstrates an extremely weak understanding of the Koranic underpinnings of Islam and the true nature of this anti-modern Muslim beast. The Koran teaches hatred of that is not Islam. We fan the flames just by existing. While I agree with D'Souza on his assessment of Carter and Clinton, he needs to become more versed in the basics of Islam and its complete abnegation of all other cultures, religions and people. The oft times depraved culture represented in the mainstream media is not the catalyst that sent airplanes into the WTC or bombers into a Russian elementary school. It was simply men following the teachings of Mohammed literally and coldly.
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.
Denish is from India...he knows alot about Islam. He's lived with them in close quarters.