From THE ENEMY AT HOME:
"In this book I make a claim that will seem startling at the
outset. The cultural left in this country is responsible for
causing 9/11. ... In faulting the cultural left, I am not making
the absurd accusation that this group blew up the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. I am saying that the cultural left and its
allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and
the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger
toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world. The Muslims
who carried out the 9/11 attacks were the product of this visceral
rage--some of it based on legitimate concerns, some of it based on
wrongful prejudice, but all of it fueled and encouraged by the
cultural left. Thus without the cultural left, 9/11 would not have
happened.
"I realize that this is a strong charge, one that no one has made
before. But it is a neglected aspect of the 9/11 debate, and it is
critical to understanding the current controversy over the 'war
against terrorism.' ... I intend to show that the left has actively
fostered the intense hatred of America that has led to numerous
attacks such as 9/11. If I am right, then no war against terrorism
can be effectively fought using the left-wing premises that are now
accepted doctrine among mainstream liberals and Democrats."
Whenever Muslims charge that the war on terror is really a war
against Islam, Americans hasten to assure them they are wrong. Yet
as Dinesh D'Souza argues in this powerful and timely polemic, there
really is a war against Islam. Only this war is not being waged by
Christian conservatives bent on a moral crusade to impose democracy
abroad but by the American cultural left, which for years has been
vigorously exporting its domestic war against religion and
traditional morality to the rest of the world.
D'Souza contends that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in
two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture
that angers and repulses other societies--especially traditional
and religious ones-- and by promoting, at home and abroad, an
anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of
the world.
Islamic anti-Americanism is not merely a reaction to U.S. foreign
policy but is also rooted in a revulsion against what Muslims
perceive to be the atheism and moral depravity of American popular
culture. Muslims and other traditional people around the world
allege that secular American values are being imposed on their
societies and that these values undermine religious belief, weaken
the traditional family, and corrupt the innocence of children. But
it is not "America" that is doing this to them, it is the American
cultural left. What traditional societies consider repulsive and
immoral, the cultural left considers progressive and liberating.
Taking issue with those on the right who speak of a "clash of
civilizations," D'Souza argues that the war on terror is really a
war for the hearts and minds of traditional Muslims--and
traditional peoples everywhere. The only way to win the struggle
with radical Islam is to convince traditional Muslims that America
is on their side.
We are accustomed to thinking of the war on terror and the culture
war as two distinct and separate struggles. D'Souza shows that they
are really one and the same. Conservatives must recognize that the
left is now allied with the Islamic radicals in a combined effort
to defeat Bush's war on terror. A whole new strategy is therefore
needed to fight both wars. "In order to defeat the Islamic radicals
abroad," D'Souza writes, "we must defeat the enemy at home."
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