Conservatives Scorn D'Souza, Too

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Dinesh D'Souza's "The Enemy at Home" is getting hit hard by the Right and the Left alike. Dean Barnett, who admits loving to make fun of lefties, piles on in tearing apart the book. In particular, I like the way Mr. Barnett deconstructs D'Souza's suggestion that American conservatives and Islamists are as one when it comes to being in antipathy to our liberal culture:

Radical Islam hates a respectable Church-going Presbyterian family man every bit as much as it hates a spoiled libertine like Paris Hilton. As far as radical Islam is concerned, the two are in the same basic class; they’re both infidels. Short of conversion or surrender, there is nothing our society can do to appease radical Islam.

One of the most distressing aspects of our domestic debate the past five years is the way our government and our intellectuals have so thoroughly failed to grasp the tenets of Radical Islam. It is dispiriting to see D’Souza stumble so badly, and distressing to think that he is selling the theories of this book as a de facto spokesman for America’s conservatives.

Yeah, the kind of liberal values that the Islamists abhor are things like voting and women driving. There is not a lot of common ground between mainstream conservatives and Islamists. It might be another matter when it comes to some Christian fundamentalists, but I pray that we are talking about a marginal element in American politics.


(Source: Dean Barnett for Townhall.com)

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