HOW THE LEFT CONTRIBUTED TO 9/11

Here is a an interesting new book due out today: "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11" By Dinesh D'Souza, Random House, Inc., 352 pages, $26.95

And here is a blurb about the book:

When it comes to laying blame for Sept. 11 – the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor – one of America's foremost thinkers says it doesn't lay with the terrorists.

Instead, America's enemies are right beneath our noses. Dinesh D'Souza identifies them as our "cultural left."

D'Souza is the best-selling author of "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus," and helped coin the term political correctness. His latest controversial work is appropriately called "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11" (Random House).

Although it has been officially embargoed before its release on Tuesday, January 16, it is already drawing some heavy gunfire from the left.

Their anger begins with D'Souza's own words: "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."

source: NewsMax: Author Blames 9/11 On 'Cultural Left'

That claim is far closer to the truth than the idiotic claims that "the Jews" or the Bush Aministration is responsible! Please note that the author is not denying that terrorists flew planes into buildings on 9/11, he is just providing a basis for their motivation, much like Noam Chomsky did in his book "9-11." But unlike Chomsky, D'Souza sets his sites on the hedonistic culture of the West, not it's foreign policy.

Personally, I agree with Chomsky that our foreign policy is a big negative factor in our disputes with Islam, and really it boils down to the existence of Israel. As long as we support Israel, we will be hated by Islam...it's that simple. However, I myself totally disagree with Chomsky that we therefore need to get rid of Israel. (One of many issues I disagree with Chomsky on)

But I don't entirely agree with D'Souza's thesis either, but there are some excellent points to ponder, specifically the amazing way we offend other cultures of the world by our blatanlty hedonistic media and culture, a culture that is entirely a product of the left-wing.

Here is D'Souza in his own word from an interview with Katherine Lopez:

Falwell’s point after 9/11 was that God was punishing America of its sins. My point is entirely secular: Why did the guys who did it, do it? Surely five years after 9/11, it’s reasonable to ask this question. And both the Right and the Left have been operating under illusions. The radical Muslims are against modernity and science and democracy. The radical Muslims are upset because of colonialism and the Crusades. It’s all nonsense. That’s not what the leading thinkers of radical Islam say. And Bin Laden’s own views are quite different. In his Letter to America, issued shortly after 9/11, he said that America is the fount of global atheism and it is imposing its morally depraved values on the world. So Muslims must rise up in defensive jihad against America because their religion and their values are under attack. This aspect of Bin Laden’s critique has been totally ignored, and it’s one that resonates with a lot of traditional Muslims and traditional people around the world. A second point is that unlike Falwell I don’t think “America” is to blame. Muslims in Indonesia and Egypt and Pakistan don’t see “America,” they see the face of American popular culture that is projected by our television and movies and music. They see the dimension of America that in their view corrupts the innocence of children, and undermines the family, and promotes homosexuality as a normal way of life. In fact, this is the America of the cultural Left. What the Left considers “liberating,” much of the world considers a scandalous assault on modesty and decency.

source: National Review: Eyeing the Enemy: Dinesh D’Souza looks left.