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Why Does Dinesh D'Souza Hate America?
Jan. 20th, 2007 08:14 am♠
Dreadful things happened to America on that day, but, truth be told, D’Souza is not all that upset by them. America is fighting two wars simultaneously, he argues, a war against terror abroad and a culture war at home. We should be using the former, less important, one to fight the latter, really crucial, one. The way to do so is to encourage a split between “radical” Muslims like bin Laden, who engage in jihad, and “traditional” Muslims who are conservative in their political views and deeply devout in their religious practices; understanding the radical Muslims, even being sympathetic to some of their complaints, is the best way to win the support of the traditionalists. We should stand with conservative Muslims in protest against the publication of the Danish cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad rather than rallying to the liberal ideal of free speech. We should drop our alliance with decadent Europe and “should openly ally” with “governments that reflect Muslim interests, not ... Israeli interests.” And, most important of all, conservative religious believers in America should join forces with conservative religious believers in the Islamic world to combat their common enemy: the cultural left.
-- Alan Wolfe for The New York Times
I do not care to lard any particular day with entries on right-wing nuttiness, but they make it hard sometimes. And Mr. Wolfe does some wonderful work laying out this Dinesh D'Souza guy, who seems to favor a Saudi Arabia type of America, albeit without terrorists, except possibly when they are striking out at liberals.
And people wonder how regimes like the Nazis can come to power. Oh, it can happen. You really cannot take anything for granted.
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Dreadful things happened to America on that day, but, truth be told, D’Souza is not all that upset by them. America is fighting two wars simultaneously, he argues, a war against terror abroad and a culture war at home. We should be using the former, less important, one to fight the latter, really crucial, one. The way to do so is to encourage a split between “radical” Muslims like bin Laden, who engage in jihad, and “traditional” Muslims who are conservative in their political views and deeply devout in their religious practices; understanding the radical Muslims, even being sympathetic to some of their complaints, is the best way to win the support of the traditionalists. We should stand with conservative Muslims in protest against the publication of the Danish cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad rather than rallying to the liberal ideal of free speech. We should drop our alliance with decadent Europe and “should openly ally” with “governments that reflect Muslim interests, not ... Israeli interests.” And, most important of all, conservative religious believers in America should join forces with conservative religious believers in the Islamic world to combat their common enemy: the cultural left.
-- Alan Wolfe for The New York Times
I do not care to lard any particular day with entries on right-wing nuttiness, but they make it hard sometimes. And Mr. Wolfe does some wonderful work laying out this Dinesh D'Souza guy, who seems to favor a Saudi Arabia type of America, albeit without terrorists, except possibly when they are striking out at liberals.
And people wonder how regimes like the Nazis can come to power. Oh, it can happen. You really cannot take anything for granted.
( article )
