D’Souza’s Islamophlia
[some of these arguments sound eerily familiar]
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/1/15/194522.shtml?s=lh
[…]
NewsMax: Doesn’t your attempt to find common cause between
traditional Christians and traditional Muslims support the left’s
argument that religious “fundamentalists” on both sides are the real
cause of this terror war?
D’Souza: Actually, it is the left that is allied with the radical
Muslims. The Islamic radicals supply the terror, and the left uses
that to demoralize the American people to persuade them to “cut and
run” from Iraq and from the Middle East. My point is that
conservatives should counter this by building alliances with the
traditional Muslims, who are the majority in the Islamic world.
Look, we don’t support polygamy, the veil, or the patriarchal family,
but this is all standard fare in the traditional cultures of the
world, not just the Islamic world but much of Asia and Africa as
well. While traditional Muslims are conservative on social issues,
studies show that they are overwhelmingly pro-democracy. Many of them
will be more pro-American, and stay away from the bin Laden camp, if
they see us as permitting Muslims to live in Islamic societies and to
stand up for Muslim interests.
NewsMax: You note that many Muslims see the United Nations and other
international organizations as tools of America, pushing a secular
agenda even when these agencies often don’t represent us. Why is that?
D’Souza: The United Nations, and many of the other international
agencies that have mostly been abandoned by the right, have been
taken over and staffed by leftist Americans and Europeans pushing a
secular, anti-religious agenda worldwide. When Muslims see groups
such as Amnesty International undermining traditional Muslim norms in
the name of “human rights,” and other groups filing lawsuits
everywhere to change social legislation, they see America doing this.
Many Muslims see that the secular left has been successful in
emasculating Christianity in the United States, and virtually
eliminating it in Europe, and believe that it’s now trying to do the
same to Islam. In this perception, of course, they’re completely right.
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