The Enemy at Home: Dinesh D’Souza Takes Sides in the War on Terror—Osama bin Laden's Side

The Stranger ^ | February 5, 2007 | Bruce Bawer

[Eurotwit]

Honestly. You are so deluded.

Quit thinking about Spears et al.

You know.

World War 2 American Army would have finished the jiad in a year.

Cheers.

[Eurotwit]

I think there is no (living) culture on earth that celebrates sodomy as much as the islamic one.

[Perdogg]

Let me clarify my position. I am not exactly clear as to what D'Souza was saying, so I shouldn't have jumped the gun.

However, I doubt that D'Sousza is arguing that Islamofascism has a right to do what they do because of what Hollywood does. We are entitled to live our lives regardless of how they think we should live.

If Hollywood is going to blame to the US's global position in the world's economy and support Israel for Islamofascism, then D'Sousza is correct in saying that Hollywood has to bear the same responsibility.

If he is just blaming the Islamofascism on our culture, then D'Souza would be wrong. I should have read enough of it to understand the context in which he is saying this.

[x_plus_one]

“imagine how American culture looks and feels to someone who has been raised in a traditional society… where homosexuality is taboo and against the law"

Mr. Author runs with dogs if he thinks is America is the land of the gays. Living on the coasts is a sure fire way to get weird ideas.

[LS]

I haven't read the book---I'm basing my comments on George Gilder's speech championing the book, and based on that, D'Souza is dead wrong. We could shut down Hollywood tomorrow and these Middle Eastern whackos wouldn't bat an eyelash.

[Mrs_Schwerin]

This is from another article describing D'Souza's new book;

But it should be borne in mind that from the Islamic perspective, Christians are inherently immoral simply by virtue of their – in the Muslim view – exalting Jesus to divine status.

Haven't read D'Souza's book yet, but the above statement has an overwhelming air of condemnation going on in them words.

[steve-b]

D'Souza (who says he is Catholic) invites us to "imagine how American culture looks and feels to someone who has been raised in a traditional society...

I simply do not care.

They can suck it up and deal with the fact that the world isn't just precisely the way they like it, like all normal humans above the age of three or so. Or, if they can't, and insist on lashing out in violence, we can kill them.

It's their choice.

[steve-b]

To my mind, even suggesting that we should change our way of life in order to let these bullies leave us alone is repulsive to me as a freedomloving patriot.

That neatly sums up my reaction.

The bottom line: D'Souza is such a craven appeasenik that he makes Chamberlain at Munich look like Leonidas at Thermopylae.

[steve-b]

If we went back to the "Leave It To Beaver" (as so many Freepers long for) days, the Muzzies would lay down their arms and say, "Gee, those infidels really ain't that bad."

One of the early leaders of the current wave of Islamic Fundamentalist thuggery, one Sayyid Qutb, got a look at "Leave It To Beaver" America in 1948. He was repulsed, horrifed, and determined to incite his co-religionists into a jihad to wipe it out.

So much for Dinesh D'Ummie's silly thesis.

[steve-b]

I wish we were all at least as patriotic as D'Souza.

When your standard is set at the low level of someone who blames his own countrymen for the atrocities of foreign terrorists, it's hard to be less patriotic. I suppose that a few people, such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and John Walker Lindh, managed it.

[steve-b]

Oh, puh-leeze. The things I've seen on TV that explain why "those countries hate us" are American achievements like the moon landing, not silly effluvia like some has-been's bid for attention.

Losers always hate winners. It's part of the mental pathology that makes them losers in the first place.

[steve-b]

the more the left vilifies a book and its author the closer to the truth the book and its author is

By your "logic", Mein Kampf is the ultimate distillation of human wisdom.

[Gritty]

Islam was on a murderous march against the world long before America came on the scene - over 1100 years before, in fact.

I hardly think western decadence promotes Islam's mad psychopathic rage. That's just an excuse. Their rage is fueled by the Koran, not external sinners. If everybody else in the world was a saint, they would still be "converting" with the sword.

[RodgerD]

Dinesh has jumped the shark into full-blown clown status.

Conservatives should shun him and his lunatic pro-Jihadi views.

[steve-b]

Conservatives should shun him and his lunatic pro-Jihadi views.

True conservatives are doing just that. That's why his sad attempts at self-justification have been getting so desperate.

[ChessExpert]

I wish we were all at least as patriotic as D'Souza.

“When your standard is set at the low level of someone who blames his own countrymen for the atrocities of foreign terrorists, it's hard to be less patriotic.”

I has some second thoughts on that wording a few minutes after I sent it. I figured someone would pick on that. I’m surprised it took two weeks. D’Souza is a very patriotic American despite what your post and others indicate.

[ggekko60506]

"By your "logic", Mein Kampf is the ultimate distillation of human wisdom."

What???

It is really dangerous to attempt to make analogies concerning subjects outside of the current cultural and historical milieu especially when such analogies are egregiously inaccurate.

FYI, Hitler's National Socialism (see the term "Socialism") was an ideology of the LEFT that advocated the public control of key national resources. Various elements of the Left in Germany cooperated with aspects of Hitler's economic program.

The use of vilification as a tool of political struggle has been an integral part of the Left's approach to politics since it was first codified by V. I. Lenin. The Left's use of this tactic in American politics has been voluminously documented.

The Left's reaction to D'Souza book is notable for the overwhelming number ad hominem attacks and for the nearly universal avoidance of addressing the substantive points in the book by these critics. I have not read a single left-of-center critique of this book that has substantively addressed the book's main thesis and that is the point. If you have a substantive reaction to the book I would love to hear it.

[ChessExpert]

correction:

I had etc.

[steve-b]

So, do you deny that leftists have denounced Mein Kampf and its author?