[Eurotwit]

for discussion...

[OldFriend]

Having not read the book, I would find it most difficult to take this reviewers interpretation.

[GulfBreeze]

Looks to me like this "probably" queer writer (author of the article) really hates Dinesh.

[snarks_when_bored]

Bawer is gay, so he's talking his book, as Wall Streeters say; however, he's right about D'Souza's inexplicable soft-pedaling of some of islam's more depraved aspects. As usual, Robert Spencer nails it:

The D’Souza Follies

[olderwiser]

It's not an either or. We don't have to object to either the radical gay agenda or Islamic fascism. We can sensibly reject BOTH.

[jcs1744]

Call me old fashioned, but I would like to live in a free society where people are allowed to make their own opinions on what is moral. A society where people have a choice to watch Jerry Springer or the Disney channel. To blame America's "moral depravity" for Islamofacism is an absolute joke and D'Souza deserves to ripped for it. What do you think? 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." Look at the Jews in Israel, many of them are ultra-Orthodox, you don't see a slow down in Mohammeds wanting to blow them up. An infidel is an infidel is an infidel.

[angkor]

brucebawer.com
The personal website of Bruce Bawer, writer and translator.

Recent pieces

On same-sex partnership in Norway THREEPENNY REVIEW, Fall 2001
"'Are you married?' people often ask us here in Norway, where we now live. 'Yes,' I reply. They hear the answer knowing it comes with an asterisk: yes, in Norway - his country, their country - we're married; back in my own homeland, the United States of America, we're not."

On the mainstreaming of gay America NEW YORK TIMES, January 26, 2001
"The most significant social change in the United States during the Clinton presidency was the social mainstreaming of gay Americans and the ebbing of antigay prejudice."

[PISANO]

I haven't read his book either but despising the cultural LEFT in this nation is NOT something I find offensive.

The left has been very active for a generation DEFINING DEVIANCY DOWN and they have been amply rewarded for their hard work.

Just take a look around it smacks you right in the face, daily!!

[WashingtonSource]

This column is so gay.

[wingnut767]

If you have not read the book Dinesh is right on on most of what he says. It is a great book. The poster is obviously gay and does not want any of his so called gays rights disturbed with. Dinesh does take take Bin ladens side but tries to explain to us in the west how a large part of Muslims look at us and the ongoing lack of morals and religion by the left. .It is a good read and my copy is currently being passed around work with everyone liking it.

[windcliff]

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[TAdams8591]

I agree that America's decadence is as offensive to many Muslims as it is to me, perhaps even more so. It helps to fuel their hatred toward the United States and the West.

That said, many Muslim men, are not as sexually pure as they claim to be, and will condemn innocent women to death for acts they themselves routinely commit, which they believe the women MAY have committed. It is a very twisted and hypocritical culture.

I find D'Souza an intelligent and thoughtful person and would have to read his book before commenting on his viewpoint.

[Allan]

Bump

[Antoninus]

If we're fighting Islam for the sake of a culture which celebrates the "right" of two guys who sodomize each other to call themselves married, and the "right" of a woman to hire a butcher to dismember and vaccuum out her unborn child, then count me out.

[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.

[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.