« UK: Muslim Terror School Still Open |
| Israel: Islamic Jihad Bomber Kills Three In Eilat »
January 28, 2007
Book Review: The Enemy at Home
Bat Ye'or, the scholar of Dhimmitude, observes that the initial Islamic conquest was aided by some Christian religious leaders of the period. By getting rid of the Christian emperors, Islam allowed those Bishops who submitted to better control the lives of their flock. The result was the destruction of the once thriving Christian civilizations of the Near East and North Africa. Treason did not profit the traitors. It would not be the last time this happens.
The spirit of the treasonous Bishops is reborn in Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
D'Souza asks us to put our hopes in an intra-civilization alliance; traditional Westerners and traditional Muslims on one side, and Islamist radicals and Western cultural leftists on the other. He puts his hopes on a peace-loving, tolerant, and humane Islam, which is strong enough to rescue us from our sorrows.
It would be wonderful--if only it were true. The peaceful and tolerant Islam of D'Souza's book is a fantasy. It doesn't exist, it has never existed, and if it ever does I'll be pleasantly surprised. Islam is not peaceful and tolerant, but a violent, depraved ideology. Islam's founder was one of the worse human monsters our world has ever suffered.
As should be expected, an argument anchored in a fantasy is not kind to reality. Through D'Souza's eyes, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia becomes a peaceful, traditional society where women, free from work, reign supreme over their households. Mughal India becomes an Oasis of Muslim-Hindu coexistence--never mind the mysteriously disappearing Buddhists. According to Islam expert Dinesh D'Souza, the Shi'a-Sunni divide is a small matter and al-Qaeda exists in dangerous Islamic theological ground.
On and on it goes, every chapter a fresh lesson on the dangers of overconfidence. Even when D'Souza manages to stumble onto the truth--amazingly, sometimes he does--he proceeds to drown it the surrounding sea of error. So, it doesn't matter that prominent American leftists have allied themselves with Islamic "radicals"--D'Souza's plan boils down to the same thing. Even if the American cultural right were to emerge victorious over the American cultural left and the "Islamic radicals" by using his strategy, such victory would taste like defeat.
Not that there would be a victory. D'Souza's plan leads only to disaster. The only way to ally ourselves with "traditional Muslims" would be by ignoring what they truly believe--that the whole earth belongs to Islam, and Muslims ought to rule it. We would be helping our enemies, nothing more. And history has not been kind to those who help their enemies.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at January 28, 2007 11:15 AM
Comments
The past several days, I've been out of touch with the blogosphere. Now that I'm back--at least for a while--I've noticed a lot of chat about D'Souza.
The man is very much mistaken if he believes that we can ally with Muslims in the way you describe what he has stated. Does the man have no sense?
Posted by: Always On Watch ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.westernresistance.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 28, 2007 9:23 PM
Old Testament believers share a lot in common with muslims. The Old Testament God wanted to be feared too. Some so called Christians are just as much a threat to western civilization as radical muslims in my opinion.
Posted by: keypointist at January 29, 2007 5:19 AM
Keypointist:
The muslims stole a lot from the Old Testament. Much of what they believe was in fact taken from the two main religions before them and twisted to suit the needs of Mo.
It's what they are good at besides, violence. STEALING from other cultures!!!
Posted by: pigtails not veils at January 29, 2007 12:49 PM
"Some so called Christians are just as much a threat to western civilization as radical muslims in my opinion."
this attitude "all religions are evil" is what will destroy our civilization.
Care to point how many christians are ready to blow themselves on a plane? or how many buddist?
Posted by: StillFedUp at January 29, 2007 2:18 PM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)