Deborah Weiss rightly bashes and rampantly berates Dinesh D'Souza in WorldNetDaily:
Dinesh D'Souza, renowned author and speaker, recently came out with a book entitled, "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11." Since then he has been rightly bashed and rampantly berated throughout the Internet and blogosphere, as the theory he posits is preposterous.There are three views as to why Islamic terrorists hate America. One view is that it is because of America's foreign policies: U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, American support of Israel and our invasion of Iraq. The second view, set forth by D'Souza, is that the American left is provoking terrorism by its immorality. This argument sounds dangerously close to Jerry Falwell's comment that God's veil of protection came down on 9/11 due to America's sins of homosexuality and abortion. But the truth lies in the third explanation: The actions of the martyrs of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks are rooted in a religious ideology and have a Quranic basis.
D'Souza's argument that the "primary cause of the volcanic anger toward America" by those in the Islamic world is based on the left's low morality, Hollywood culture and sexual immodesty is a good theory designed to sell books and create controversy, but it denies the facts. D'Souza seems oblivious to Islamic terrorism that occurred prior to 9/11, oblivious to Islamic terrorism worldwide – including countries that are not steeped in modern culture and the sexual revolution – and oblivious to Islamic terrorism against those of all other religions, including Buddhism, Christianity and even moderate Islam. Does he really believe that the Islamists are OK with the orthodox Jews who share their conservative anti-abortion views, dress modestly and theoretically even worship the same God? Perhaps D'Souza does not understand the religious ideological roots of Islamic terrorism because in India, his country of origin, radical Islam is actually outlawed –something the Islamists are working on "correcting."
Read it all.
It is extremely heartening to see how quickly and how thoroughly D'Souza's "we're to blame" theory is getting shot down. Same goes for Carter's "Israel is to blame" book. I think the public, and even some in the media, are starting to come to a profound realization, that Islam is to blame for the jihad.
Robert, Hugh and everyone
Brigitte Gabriel has done a great job and is working on a weekly broadcast on fox.
Probably something to support and join her in the efforts. I can ecven see Robert and Hugh on that programme.
Dear Friend,
I will be interviewed on Hannity and Colmes tonight discussing the hate teachings of Islam against the infidels, Jews and Christians, to children and adults here and around the world. Tune in and tell your friends.
... I had presented Fox News with a TV show titled: “Middle East Media Watch” which I have been working on for two years. Fox thought that there might not be enough interest in the American public to watch such a program on a weekly basis. So they decided to do documentaries instead to test the pulse of interest. I believe there is so much material to wake up the American public and to debate the issues. ...
http://www.civoc.com/society/2007/02/07/brigitte-gabriel-on-hannity-and-colmes-tonight/
Please everyone send mails to fox to make it come true
Moderate Islam? There is no moderate Islam!! Only moderate Muslims...and they are in constant danger of being radicalized!
There is an article about Dinesh D'Souza in todays International Herald Ttribune that you might wish to refer to.
See http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/06/features/bookmer.php
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http://www.civoc.com/society/2007/02/07/190/
Of girls on the street, it used to be said "She's in the life."
Of boys who just want to promote themselves, as Bright Young Conservatives or Bright Young Liberals (and now the Bright Young "Moderate" Muslim Reformers), making the rounds, hitting the shows, delivering those campus lectures with those smiling checks that follow (and the groupies who follow you back for further intense "discussion"), it could be said: He's in the Racket.
The website given to self-glorification. The funniest one is that of "scholar of the house" Khaled Abou el Fadl [google "Scholar of the House" and "Khaled Abou el Fadl"]. But I've just gone to www.dineshdsouza.com and been treated to Dinesh D'Souza's Advertisement for Myself. Take a look. It's very funny. And very telling.
Be sure, when you go to that site, to click on the "Events Calendar" and also on "University Speaking" and "Corporate Speaking." Do the math for the "young man" -- as William F. Buckley refers to him -- aged 46, who is doing very well indeed. Scramble, scramble, scramble.
Here's just a sample of the modest biography put up by Dinesh D'Souza at his modest website of the same name:
ABOUT DINESH D’SOUZA
Dinesh D'Souza’s new book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 will be published in January 2007 by Doubleday.
D’Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor’s Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans.
Before joining the Hoover Institution, Mr. D'Souza was the John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1987-88 he served as senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. From 1985 to 1987 he was managing editor of Policy Review. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.
Mr. D'Souza's books have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. In 2002 he published the New York Times bestseller What’s So Great About America (Penguin Books) and in 2003 he published Letters to a Young Conservative (Basic Books). His 1991 book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book was widely acclaimed and became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990's.
In 1995 D'Souza published The End of Racism, which became one of the most controversial books of the time and a national bestseller. D"Souza's 1997 book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader was the first book to make the case for Reagan's intellectual and political importance. In 2000, D'Souza published The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence, which explores the social and moral implications of wealth.
D'Souza's articles have appeared in virtually every major magazine and newspaper, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Nightline, The News Hour, O'Reilly Factor, Moneyline, and Hannity and Colmes.
D'Souza speaks at top universities and business groups across the country."
Dickens, writing his "American Notes" in 1842, was amazed at the mountebanks and the blowhards and the promoters and self-promoters he ran into. He wrote about them, beautifully, in the American chapters of "Martin Chuzzlewit." Well, the mountebank at the county fair, looking like W. C. Fields, has been replacd by the Lecture-Circuit Experts, who are there to 'splain it all to you.
Read that insufferably boastful "biography" or rather autobiography, posted by Dinesh D'Souza at his, Dinesh D'Souza's, website.
Then go ahead -- by the waters of Babylon if you happen to be a soldier stuck there, or by any body of water here at home -- sit down and weep.
That the U.S. had a "special relationship" with Saudi Arabia going back to 1940, is not some wild conspiracy theory by Noam Chomsky, but is a documented historical fact. Likewise, the fact that starting in the late 1970's, the U.S. openly supported Islamic jihadists like the Muslim Brotherhood as a potential counterweight to the Soviet Union, is also a historical fact.
Whereas there is zero evidence that Islamic jihadism is caused by Western decadence. It does give them yet one more reason to not like the West very much. But the main reason they don't like the West is that the West hasn't embraced Islam.
In regard to what the moslems think of the American left and its support of "immorality", I am reminded of the future Duke of Wellington's comment at the start of the Peninsula Campaign on the readiness of his troops: "What the enemy will make of them, I know not, but by God, they frighten ME." In the same way, I don't know what moslems make of American left-wing immorality, but it certainly scares me.
Consider the three reasons (Robert calls them "views") for the terrorists' hatred of the non-moslem world in general and America in particular: Group A hates us for our intervention in the islamic world; group B for our "immorality", and group C because "it is written in the koran". How large are each of these groups? In particular, how large is group B? Robert and Hugh argue that group B is so small as to be negligible, Dinesh argues that it is sizeable, larger than A or C. I would agree with Robert and Hugh that B is small. But in any case A + B + C > A + C.
Also, note that terrorists might be motivated by a combination of any 2 or even all 3 reasons. And again. however small, B makes its contribution: A + B > A, etc.
Then there is the much larger number of moslems, who while not terrorists themselves, are willing to support terrorists with financial help, legal aid, or propaganda. They too have their reasons, and can be called groups A', B', and C'. Again the question is how large is B' compared to the others? And again any individual might be motivated by a combination of reasons.
So, to a certain extent, the question boils down to a matter of numbers; how large is B compared to A and C? It's like the old limerick:
There was a young lady from Knizes,
With breasts of two different sizes. One was so small
It was nothing at all
But the other was large and won prizes.
Robert and Hugh say that B is the small one, Dinesh says B is the large one.
Finally there is the possiblity that American leftist immorality is winning more moslem hearts and minds than it is alienating. Maybe lots of them want more abortions, and families headed by single mothers, and homosexuality in their own countries. And maybe not.
Obviously, someone is making money ? The sign of the times says this was suppose to happen, and it doesn't have a right or left in it. True, it's a mental and spiritual clash, but it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the advance technological break-throughs we've had from the 80's ? Look to the base of this historical tragity, it's MONEY.....world MONEY at that ! Why ? Isn't money what everyone needs to survive ? Sure, it allows evil to flourish also ! You can't have one without the other, everything is equal....Hindsight makes you want to look at the morality question ? Good, give me a definition of morality and I'll show you a FOOL!
What we have here is an ignorant wanting to progress into the 21st century, while carrying the past. Here, we're trying to assimilate them with those needs, all the while, breaking down our systems of Justice to accomodate murder.
I just love Deb Weiss and D boy will disappear in time after his 15 minutes wears out.
But in any case A + B + C > A + C.
Posted by: ebonystone at February 7, 2007 01:03 PM
Ebonystone,
There is only "C".
"A" and "B" are merely excuses to obfuscate the glaring reality of "C". Nothing more, nothing less.
"C" pre-dates the existence of "A" by about 1200 years. "B" is a preposterous claim coming from the cult, whose believers who take the moral low-ground at every presentable opportunity.
Dear Dinesh: If the jihad on America is principally a result of the immorality therein scandalizing a morally sensitive people, then why are we not under siege by the Amish? Why are the Hindus not targetting us with India's nuclear arsenal because we eat meat? Surely a Big Mac is as offensive to a Hindu as Paris Hilton is to Ahmedinijad.
Archimedes2
Other question - just as Muslims ostensibly are, other ethnic groups worldwide - Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Jews, Armenians, Serbs, Copts, Maronites, et al are just as traditional, and as likely to be put off by a Paris Hilton as Dinesh thinks Muslims are. A lot of them even have contempt for the West, although a lot of it is clearly envy. So why aren't they producing their own terrorists to do to the US what the Muslims are doing?
Mr. D'Souza's error is in assuming that Muslims share the same moral values as the rest of us.
Islam has turned good and evil up-side-down: Good is evil, and evil is good.
Even if we were willing to do evil and call it good in order to pacify them, it still wouldn't be enough.
We would have to acknowledge their fraud Mohammad as a Prophet of God, and their fictitious Allah as the one true God.
Nothing else will do, Mr. D'Souza.
Islam is evil and thrives on hatred. Futile bothering about why they "hate America". Why are the haters and carpers still living there?
I feel Indians excel in "aiding the enemy" and souring relations with friends. Instead of blaming ourselves for our list of maladies, people conveniently call it a "British legacy". Nobody disputes our marxist historians' claim that "milk and honey flowed in India during Moghal rule" but accepts and believes it too. Certain others dwell on past glories losing grip over present. Disturbing, how someone like Dinesh was allowed to influence policies in America. India is one big proof how lousy its policymakers are.
Our morals offends Moslems? Are they the arbiters of our morality? Who asked them?
We are the caretakers of our morals, not the Moslems.
Let them look after their own morals, which in our view are sadly lacking:
Evil is good. Lies are truth. Kill all who do not agree with you. etc.
The constant stress on bodily cleansing, with detailed instructions, is the obsession of a person who feels that he is unclean.
With right.
More on all this will be found at
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com