Fwd: Dinesh D’Souza on the Value of Traditional Religious Values
[a press release on D’Souza’s latest - Billy Moyers?]
Just checking in on one of our January titles that is sure to spark
debate in the New Year. Dinesh D’Souza takes on the most talked
about, dissected topic of our day and gives us a startling,
controversial reading on the causes and possible cures for the war on
terror in THE ENEMY AT HOME: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility
for 9/11 (Doubleday; On-sale: January 16, 2007).
D’Souza reveals that the war on terror is not, as many have claimed,
being waged by Christian conservatives. He asserts that the war
truly is a war against Islam, and the leaders of America’s cultural
left are leading the charge. People like Hillary Clinton, Ted
Kennedy, Barney Frank, Billy Moyers, and Michael Moore are
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. It is the export of America’s decadent pop
culture, leftist ideas, and secular values that has led to the rise
of virulent Anti-Americanism throughout the world. Liberals
outspoken opposition to American foreign policy—including the way the
Bush Administration is conducting the war on terror—contributes to
the growing hostility, encouraging people both at home and abroad to
blame America for the problems of the world.
Some of his startling revelations include:
· The right must stop its petty infighting and engage in a
concerted political campaign to expose the left as the enemy at home.
In order to achieve its own objectives, the left is serving as bin
Laden’s unpaid public relations team in America, and conservatives
should not be afraid to say this.
· Muslims are right: the West is waging a war against Islam.
· Our decadent and depraved American culture angers and
repulses other societies—especially traditional and religious
societies, and not to mention religious conservatives at home.
· The cultural left encourages, both in America and abroad, an
America-hating foreign policy that blames America for the problems of
the world.
· By attacking the depravity of the left, conservatives can win
friends among Muslims and other traditional people around the world.
THE ENEMY AT HOME reveals the powerful and potentially deadly bond
between the war on terror and our culture war at home and argues that
we can not win one without the other. D’Souza is available for
interviews, but in the meantime, please let me know if you have any
questions or would like a copy of the book.
January 18th, 2007 at 8:08 am
In his new book, The Enemy at Home, D’Souza argues that the cultural Left (the media, the nonprofit sector, and the universities) is allied with the radical Muslims, and that conservatives and “decent liberals” have no choice but to join forces with the traditional Muslims to combat the radical Muslims and the cultural left. He seems to be unaware that Islam is also the ally of Fascist and anti-Semite groups such as Aryan Nations - under the influence of Julius Evola there is within the political right aan ultra-right wing that endorses and sympathizes with Isam and consequently also has declared war against the United States and the West (on Evola’s support for Islam and Tradition against cultural decadence, see his “Revolt Agains The Modern World”, pages 243 - 244).
In his claim that the religious and socially conservative Muslims are our moral allies against the left, D’Souza relies on a distinction between traditional and radical Islam. According to him, we should encourage a split between “radical” Muslims (who engage in jihad) and “traditional” Muslims who are conservative in their political views and deeply devout in their religious practices. D’Souza not only stands with conservative Muslims in their protest against the publication of the Danish cartoons, he also claims that we should support Muslims against Israel!
D’Souza’s position is that of Patrick Buchanan who claims that we ought to win Muslim hearts and minds (http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/005053.html).
Also, Jean-Marie Le Pen is waning in support these days, courtesy of his sell-out to Muslims; the Front National has many immigrant members, and some muslims have been elected.
The political landscape has become confusingly divided, not between left and right, but between an open-ended vision of the future versus.some notion that it should be controlled or managed or perhaps kept stable in a past form.