D'Souzathon runoff

I'll vote for #8.

But I still prefer to think of this guy as the US' #1 Snake Oil Salesman.

6. The Dilettante of Dhimmitude (Contributed by Brett_McS)

#7

#3 - The Hooper of Hoover

Between #1 and #7. #7 wins the tiebreaker.

no:7
The Saladin of wishful thinking.

I would vote for #8 in order to send Mr. D'Souza a copy of Mr. Spencer's book, but he'd probably throw it into his fancy fireplace. So I'll go with #2.

#1. Another muslim pie in the sky vendor.

Put me down for No. 7, The Saladin of Wishful Thinking. 1 through 6 are very good too, but No. 7 stands out to me because so much of what I've read from him sounds like wishful thinking.

No one offered "Mortimer Snerd"? As in "The Mortimer Snerd of the Think-Tanks"?

Well, that phrase will find a future use. Someone else will come along to deserve it. Or perhaps someone already has. Yes, I think so. Google "Cut-and-Runner" and "Hero of Baghdad" and "Hugh Fitzgerald" and take a look at what comes up. The two photographs that, juxtaposed, are worth far more than two thousand words.

Oh man, how did i miss this?

"D'Souza is the Walter Duranty of our generation!"

#3 - The Hooper of Hoover is a natural fit that JWers will always get. That way Robert can stop using that annoying apostrophe each time.

The Hooper of Hoover. Like the Thug-in-Cheif, or New Duranty Times, we get it.

-XRDC

#3 - The Hooper of Hoover is a natural fit that JWers will always get. That way Robert can stop using that annoying apostrophe each time.

The Hooper of Hoover. Like the Thug-in-Chief, or New Duranty Times, we get it.

-XRDC

#6. The Dilettante of Dhimmitude

Lawrence of Taqiyya

"Dinesh D'Souza is the Real Estate salesman of Dar-al-Islam at Dhimmi."

Lawrence of Taqiya

No. 5, definitely.

#7 - D'Souza is all over the wishful thinking.

Dinesh is a good salesman. But the product he's selling stinks. He will realize how wrong he is when many Muslims start to publicly agree with Robert. We are not far from that time. Islam has a lot of problems, including the tendency to deception, the Jew-hating (a big problem in Islam), and its cruel intolerance of freedom of conscience anywhere Muslims are in the majority. It is what it is. D-the product needs work.

I vote for #1.

I read Alan Wolfe's review of Dinesh's book. He just trashes it and D'souza personally.

Mr. D'souza is of the "never apologize, never explain" school of political ideology. He should be honest with himself and with us, his audience, and admit that he has erred intellectually. It is not shameful to admit that you have made a mistake. Christopher Hitchens and Alan Wolfe and David Horowitz have all abandoned the facile Marxism that marked their intellectual youth. Mr. D'souza should stop being so vain as to think that, if he admits that he made a mistake, that people will think less of him forever. Actually, most people will think more highly of him. And, when he writes his next book, will expect something more thoughtful and with greater depth because he could admit that he had made a mistake.

2. Dinesh D'Souza - "Putting the 'me' in Dhimmi since 2007" gets my vote.

Can anything top the name he earned at Dartmouth?

Distort D`newsa

#5 The Lawrence of Taqiyya, no doubt.

#6 gets my vote.

#2

Well Shoot I am at loss between 7 & 5....

But 5 Gets my vote by a smidgen (anyone know how to spell that word?.... Nah an extra does of Taqiyya for me please) :)

#5 - Lawrence of Taqiyya

Dinesh, yours was good too - but wouldn't 'A voice of reason among Westernphobes' be a better description?

5. Dinesh D'Souza: "Lawrence of Taqiyya" (Contributed by joeblough)

I do like #3 ~The Hooper of Hoover, may not always be accurate; he won’t be there forever (hopefully). Therefore, I go with #5 ~ The Lawrence of Taquia. Like the original, peddling an alliance with Islam to the West, and he will always be a liar.
My final answer, #5.

#6.

Nice job Brett_McS.

D'Souza is the Anne Coulter of muslim apologists.

Dilettante of Dhimmitude

Or D'Souza is the Anne Coulter of closet muslims.

Or D'Souza is the Anne Coulter of closet muslims.

Or D'Souza is the Anne Coulter of closet muslims.

Or D'Souza is the Anne Coulter of closet muslims.

Hey Menetheos, you stuffing the ballot box?

Anne Coulter is not That thin.

#7 gets my vote. Classic.

"6. The Dilettante of Dhimmitude (Contributed by Brett_McS)"

This one neatly encapsulates it, while drawing attention to what for some readers may be an important new word.

D'Souza's request that Islam critics stop their criticism is consistent with the terms of the classic dhimma policy. Under Islamic rule, the dhimmis were not permitted to criticize or insult Islam or Muhammad; doing so would violate the terms of the dhimma, and the offending dhimmis would be punished harshly, including by execution.

My thoughts:

Most descriptive of what's wrong with DD:
6. The Dilettante of Dhimmitude (Contributed by Brett_McS)

Smacks down his ridiculous ego best:
2. Dinesh D'Souza - "Putting the 'me' in Dhimmi since 2007" (Contributed by Bunratty Bill)
(Very funny, really!)

Most *stinging*, plus it has awesome alliteration and rhyme:
3. The Hooper of Hoover (Contributed by justask)

"Lawrence of Taqiyya" is cute-sounding, but inapplicable. DD is not guilty of taqiyya - by definition only muslims speak taquiya. Even what the worst apologists do can't correctly be called taqiyya. That should be applied to some muslim spokesman.

I prefer 3."The Hooper of Hoover", though DD may be gone from Hoover one day (hopefully). (However we could also rename him when that time comes!:D).

So barring that, #6 The Dilettante of Dhimmitude !!!!

Really a toss up between those two: 3 & 6.

Great participation, people!!

My thoughts:

Most descriptive of what's wrong with DD:
6. The Dilettante of Dhimmitude (Contributed by Brett_McS)

Smacks down his ridiculous ego best:
2. Dinesh D'Souza - "Putting the 'me' in Dhimmi since 2007" (Contributed by Bunratty Bill)
(Very funny, really!)

Most *stinging*, plus it has awesome alliteration and rhyme:
3. The Hooper of Hoover (Contributed by justask)

"Lawrence of Taqiyya" is cute-sounding, but inapplicable. DD is not guilty of taqiyya - by definition only muslims speak taquiya. Even what the worst apologists do can't correctly be called taqiyya. That should be applied to some muslim spokesman.

I prefer 3."The Hooper of Hoover", though DD may be gone from Hoover one day (hopefully). (However we could also rename him when that time comes!:D).

So barring that, #6 The Dilettante of Dhimmitude !!!!

Really a toss up between those two: 3 & 6.

Great participation, people!!

#6 The Dilettante of Dhimmitude!

8.

twist the dagger as you push it in.

Robert,

My choices is : 1st Choice: # 2
2nd Choice: #7
3rd Choice: #3

Honorable Mention: #5

Great group of themes.

Some good ones, but i gotta vote for "Dilettante of Dhimmitude"

I'll write-in my own here since I missed the last few days:

"Quisling of the Quraysh"

I suppose it wouldn't be good form to vote for one's own, so I'll go for

#4 The huckster of the highbrows.

All of them are good, well, except #8. My vote goes to #7.

#3 - The Hooper of Hoover.

#7 is absolutely best! The most refined suggestion, in my opinion. :-)

dolphin,
CAGE co-founder.
http://www.acage.org/

It's true - #8 - sucks.

Hi Dinesh!

D'Souza - the Indian Ibrahim Hooper!

I like almost all of them (2, 6 & 7 especially) but my nod has to go to #5.

Lawrence of Taqiyya
and
Hooper of Hoover

I vote for #3: The Hooper of Hoover.

Although #8 made me laugh more.

It's a close race, but I'll vote for:

#6

I vote for #6.
Too late now for my entry, but I'd call D'Souza
"The Alfred E. Newman of the Global Jihad".

Dinesh-

My closet friend is an Arab (getting a wee-bit lukewarm re Islam-LOL). D-the Jew-hating is a big problem in Islam, its central to this Jihad issue. Until that is overcome-Islam is dangerous. The Jew-hating is a very bad problem in Islam and you know that that is true. You are selling a bad product ("moderate Islam") with a bad foundation. I expect more from you. Sell them the solution to the problem re the bad foundation. You can do it. I have faith in you.

#2

D'Souza is the 'shill of the shrill'

But all cutsy word games aside.... he's numb as a boot and dead from the neck up in this whole matter.

Seriously... I am startled by his flippant dismissal of everything that's been laid out for him, and his own 'voice of reason amongst the Islamophobes. What cark, what madness, and what intellectual and moral dishonesty.

To use his weight of celebrity for such an endeavor as this: to stand over the gossamer suppostiongs, the fake suppositions that the left has made the higher, better ethics and beliefs hidden and the zealotry a result of this, is frankly..... madness, and no better
than the shrill shilling of such as Carter, who lied even according to some who were there and witnesses to events.....

Sad, silly, and in the final analysis... an obliquy to D'Souza's source and sight.

Mark

D'Souza is the 'shill of the shrill'

But all cutsy word games aside.... he's numb as a boot and dead from the neck up in this whole matter.

Seriously... I am startled by his flippant dismissal of everything that's been laid out for him, and his own 'voice of reason amongst the Islamophobes. What cark, what madness, and what intellectual and moral dishonesty.

To use his weight of celebrity for such an endeavor as this: to stand over the gossamer suppostiongs, the fake suppositions that the left has made the higher, better ethics and beliefs hidden and the zealotry a result of this, is frankly..... madness, and no better
than the shrill shilling of such as Carter, who lied even according to some who were there and witnesses to events.....

Sad, silly, and in the final analysis... an obliquy to D'Souza's source and sight.

Mark

Oh, gosh, Mr. Spencer. I wish I'd known about this vote and runoff beforehand. I'm a Ph.D. mathematician. One of my many interests is voting theory. As we all know intuitively, elections among more than 2 alternatives can be tricky; indeed different election procedures can lead to different outcomes. Who is the most plausible winner?

I'll spare you the mathematical proofs, and describe the ideal election procedure, the instant Borda runoff. If there are only 2 candidates, this becomes the usual majority vote. Otherwise, each voter ranks the alternatives from most favored to least. Points are awarded in decreasing order like your college GPA. In this particular election, your 1st choice gets 7 points, the 2nd gets 6 points, ..., the least favorite gets 0 points (that's the "Borda count"). We tally all voters' votes, eliminate the lowest-scoring alternative, and do the point count again with the originally expressed rankings on the 7 remaining candidates because the points may change (hence "instant runoff", requiring no further work by the voter); eliminate the lowest again, etc., until we get to 1 winner.

If there is any alternative that is preferred pairwise to all of the other alternatives (the Condorcet winner), the instant Borda runoff will find it. In contrast, your plurality vote procedure can actually elect the Condorcet loser, an alternative which loses to every other alternative in pairwise contests. That would be a major bummer.

Mathematics at your service! :-)

Oh, gosh, Mr. Spencer. I wish I'd known about this vote and runoff beforehand. I'm a Ph.D. mathematician. One of my many interests is voting theory. As we all know intuitively, elections among more than 2 alternatives can be tricky; indeed different election procedures can lead to different outcomes. Who is the most plausible winner?

I'll spare you the mathematical proofs, and describe the ideal election procedure, the instant Borda runoff. If there are only 2 candidates, this becomes the usual majority vote. Otherwise, each voter ranks the alternatives from most favored to least. Points are awarded in decreasing order like your college GPA. In this particular election, your 1st choice gets 7 points, the 2nd gets 6 points, ..., the least favorite gets 0 points (that's the "Borda count"). We tally all voters' votes, eliminate the lowest-scoring alternative, and do the point count again with the originally expressed rankings on the 7 remaining candidates because the points may change (hence "instant runoff", requiring no further work by the voter); eliminate the lowest again, etc., until we get to 1 winner.

If there is any alternative that is preferred pairwise to all of the other alternatives (the Condorcet winner), the instant Borda runoff will find it. In contrast, your plurality vote procedure can actually elect the Condorcet loser, an alternative which loses to every other alternative in pairwise contests. That would be a major bummer.

Mathematics at your service! :-)

Sorry - don't know how that happened...

Lawrence of Taqiyya gets my vote

My vote for Lawrence of Taqiyya.

What is the matter with D'Souza? I met him years and years ago. I'm sure he doesn't remember. We had a couple of nice conversations after two of his speeches when he was talking at various universities in Tennessee about ending affirmative action. I got to join him and the organizers at IHOP (of all places) after his talk for a great late supper-get-together. He seemed so intelligent and sensible back 16 years ago or so. I can't imagine what's gotten into him.

many good ones but best is

number 6

"The Dilettante of Dhimmitude" (Contributed by Brett_McS)

many good ones but best is

number 6

"The Dilettante of Dhimmitude" (Contributed by Brett_McS)

hey - this voting machine must have been made in Venezuela ...?

#3

... the Hooper of the Hoover Inst.

The Hooper of Hoover (Contributed by justask)

It rhymes...plus you wack two birds with one stone...

Hooper and D'Souza..

As an aficionado of alliteration, my vote is for #6.

The Dilettante Dhimmitude.

(This way Dinesh can keep his monogrammed kid gloves.)

As an aficionado of alliteration, I have to go with #6.

The Dilettante of Dhimmitude.

(And this way D.D. can keep his monogrammed kid gloves.)

(Not a double vote, just some kind of TypeKey glitch.)

#5

i hope my vote is not too late for #2.
Dinesh D'Souza - "Putting the 'me' in Dhimmi since 2007" (Contributed by Bunratty Bill)

They are all good. I would add Chamberlain of the Appeasors to the list. Charles "The Hammer" Martel stopped the Mohammedan invasion of France in the eighth century. His grandson, Charlemain, had his solution: Check in with The Church or check out. The Jihad Boys have been whining about the Franks ever since then.

6. The Dilettante of Dhimmitude (Contributed by Brett_McS)

Funny, concerning D'Souza's entry, his tone sounds like "Islamophobe" is a negative thing!

Apparently he hasn't read the "Wall Street Journal" article of last week by the Reformist Muslim Tawfik Hamid describing the term "Islamophobe" as a "badge of honor."

That it is, as only intelligent, perspicacious persons where that badge.

#6: The Dilettante of Dhimmitude

Another one would be the Romila Thapar of the Conservatives. When I hear those stories about D'Souza I can't help thinking about Indian Marxist "historians" like Romila Thapar.

Like D'Souza, Thapar is not a Muslim herself, but is one of the so-called "Marxist" or Pseudo-secular historians. Their whitewashing of Islam, together with their tactics like blaming everything else than Islam itself, are all too similar to D'Souza. I wouldn't be surprised if D'Souza draws direct inspiration from such "historians".

And a dialogue with Thapar is just as fruitful as a dialogue with D'Souza...:
http://www.voi.org/books/htemples2/app4.htm

Can I put in a late entry:

Dinesh D'Souza - the Sheik in Wolfe's clothing

No? Ok - in that case #6

By the way, XRDC, I don't get #3

OMG! "Wear" that badge. Sorry. Was still waking up!

"watling" the "Hooper of Hoover" are references to the CAIR President Ibrahim Hooper, whom we all detest, as I'm sure you know. "Hoover" refers to the Hoover Institution at Stanford where D'Souza is a Fellow of some sort. Voila, two germane references plus the "h" alliteration...could be a winner.

I vote for Number 6

dd is the epitome of ignorance...no doubt...

a quick thought: dd is the duke of error...

Thanks darcy. I'm slowly educating myself re: jihadi/dhimmi activity in the USA. I'm more acquainted with it here in the UK where we have plenty to keep us occupied.

"watling" from the UK - Glad you're here! OMG I'm very, very sorry for England these days.

Tell us, just how disgusted are you concerning the Muslims in your country? Don't mince words, either!

Oh, is "The Guardian" a PC Dhimmi paper? If so, some "Guardian!"

#7

Well, the problem here in the UK is not as bad as the posts on JW tend to suggest.

However, our Government - which is in power thanks to the support of just 21.6% of the electorate - is committed to political correctness and multiculturalism. This, combined with the fact that we have traditionally been a tolerant nation, has meant that the Muslim influence over life here - though still thankfully small - has been allowed to grow pretty much unchecked.

The ex-leader of the Muslim Council of Britain (our equivalent to CAIR) is a Knight of the Realm. I kid you not. But Sir Iqbal Sacranie supported the MCB's boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day in 2006.

The MCB is seen as a moderate organisation, and advises our Government on Muslim issues. However it has links to more extreme factions. Sacranie himself in his younger days said of Salman Rushdie on the day of the fatwa:

"Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him... his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah."

You can read more at:

http://www.islam-watch.org/AdrianMorgan/Muslim_Council_Britain.htm

There is plenty more I could add, but you'll find many examples of UK dhimmitude here on JW/DW.

You asked about the Guardian. It's a socialist paper which fully supports and promotes PC and multiculturalism. It is more left-leaning than the Government.

But there is hope. I'm sure that most Brits are disgusted with what the Muslims here get away with (e.g. a Muslim policewoman rookie refused to shake hands with the police chief at her passing out ceremony) so please don't think we're just a bunch of dhimmis. It's mostly the Government who is to blame.

Unfortunately the official opposition party - the Conservatives - seem at the moment to be trying to out-dhimmi the Government.

Well, the problem here in the UK is not as bad as the posts on JW tend to suggest.

However, our Government - which is in power thanks to the support of just 21.6% of the electorate - is committed to political correctness and multiculturalism. This, combined with the fact that we have traditionally been a tolerant nation, has meant that the Muslim influence over life here - though still thankfully small - has been allowed to grow pretty much unchecked.

The ex-leader of the Muslim Council of Britain (our equivalent to CAIR) is a Knight of the Realm. I kid you not. But Sir Iqbal Sacranie supported the MCB's boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day in 2006.

The MCB is seen as a moderate organisation, and advises our Government on Muslim issues. However it has links to more extreme factions. Sacranie himself in his younger days said of Salman Rushdie on the day of the fatwa:

"Death, perhaps, is a bit too easy for him... his mind must be tormented for the rest of his life unless he asks for forgiveness to Almighty Allah."

You can read more at:

http://www.islam-watch.org/AdrianMorgan/Muslim_Council_Britain.htm

There is plenty more I could add, but you'll find many examples of UK dhimmitude here on JW/DW.

You asked about the Guardian. It's a socialist paper which fully supports and promotes PC and multiculturalism. It is more left-leaning than the Government.

But there is hope. I'm sure that most Brits are disgusted with what the Muslims here get away with (e.g. a Muslim policewoman rookie refused to shake hands with the police chief at her passing out ceremony) so please don't think we're just a bunch of dhimmis. It's mostly the Government who is to blame.

Unfortunately the official opposition party - the Conservatives - seem at the moment to be trying to out-dhimmi the Government.

Ooops - didn't mean to post it twice.