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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 ragesome 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 DSouza 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.
DSouza 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 societiesespecially 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, DSouza argues that the war on terror is really a war for the hearts and minds of traditional Muslimsand 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. DSouza 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 Bushs war on terror. A whole new strategy is therefore needed to fight both wars. In order to defeat the Islamic radicals abroad, DSouza writes, we must defeat the enemy at home.
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ALSO BY DINESH DSOUZA
Letters to a Young Conservative
Whats So Great About America
The Virtue of Prosperity
Ronald Reagan
The End of Racism
Illiberal Education
NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1. Michael Moore, Death, Downtown, September 12, 2001, michaelmoore.com.
2. You Helped This Happen, transcript of remarks by Jerry Falwell on the September 13 edition of the 700 Club; Falwell Apologizes to Gays, Feminists, Lesbians, CNN.com, posted September 14, 2001.
3. Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001, p. 115.
4. Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, W. W. Norton, New York, 2000, p. 7.
5. Kristine Holmgren, Nightmare of Fascism Seems Too Real Since Sept. 11 Attacks, St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 20, 2001.
6. Robert Byrd, Losing America, W. W. Norton, New York, 2004, p. 91.
7. Ibid., pp. 129, 178.
8. Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands, Viking, New York, 1991, p. 389. Maureen Dowd, Roves Revenge, New York Times, November 7, 2004. Nina Siegal, The Progressive Interview: Art Spiegelman, Progressive, January 2005, p. 37. Wendy Kaminer, Our Very Own Taliban, American Prospect, online edition, September 17, 2001.
9. Transcript of Cindy Sheehan remarks, rally in support of Lynne Stewart, San Francisco State University, April 27, 2005, discoverthenetworks.org. Edward Said, From Oslo to Iraq, Pantheon Books, New York, 2004, p. 229. Jonathan Raban, September 11: The View from the West, New York Review of Books, September 22, 2005, p. 8. Jane Smiley, Why Americans Hate Democrats, November 4, 2004, slate.msn.com. Eric Alterman, Corrupt, Incompetent and Off-Center, The Nation, November 7, 2005, p. 12. Jonathan Schell, The Hidden State Steps Forward, The Nation, January 9, 2006. Garry Wills, Fringe Government, New York Review of Books, October 6, 2005, p. 48.
10. Statement of Senator Edward Kennedy on the Federal Marriage Amendment, July 13, 2004; statement of Senator Edward Kennedy on Iraq, September 10, 2004. Clinton cited by Kate OBeirne, Hillary Prepares, National Review, October 10, 2005, p. 34. Markey cited by Lewis Lapham, Democracyland, Harpers, March 2005, p. 8.
11. Graffito in Iraq 182, collected and translated by Amir Nayef al-Sayegh, Harpers, November 2004, p. 19. Zawahiri cited in Al Qaeda Number Two Hits Out at U.S. in New Audiotape, Agence France-Presse, February 11, 2005.
12. Bernard Lewis, Islam and the West, Oxford University Press, N.Y., 1993, p. 35.
13. Interview: Osama Bin Laden, Frontline, May 1998, pbs.org.
14. Benazir Bhutto, Western Media: The Prism of Immorality, New Perspectives Quarterly, fall 1998, p. 32. Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam, Modern Library Press, New York, 2003, pp. 8081.
15. Fareed Zakaria, Culture Is Destiny: A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, Foreign Affairs, March-April 1994.
16. Neil MacFarquhar, Bin Laden Denounces Muslim Infidels, San Diego Union-Tribune, November 4, 2001, p. A-3.
17. Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues, Villard, New York, 2001, pp. xxviiixxix.
18. Bin Laden cited in The 9/11 Commission Report, W. W. Norton, New York, 2004, p. 54. Bin Ladens Statement: The Sword Fell, New York Times, October 8, 2001, p. B-7.
19. Anne Norton, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004, p. 216. Mari Matsuda, A Dangerous Place, Boston Review, December 2002January 2003. Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire, Beacon Press, Boston, 2004, p. xi. Reprinted in Edward Said, The Politics of Dispossession, Vintage, New York, 1995, p. 298.
20. Transcript of Osama bin Laden speech, October 30, 2004, aljazeera.net.
21. Michael Moore, Heads Up, April 14, 2004, michaelmoore.com. James Carroll, Crusade, Metropolitan Books, New York, 2004, p. 3. Joe Conason, Bushs Ideological Quagmire, September 24, 2005, salon.com. Gwynne Dyer, Future Tense, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2004, p. 9. Arundhati Roy, An Ordinary Persons Guide to Empire, South End Press, Boston, 2004, p. 94.
ONE
1. The 9/11 Commission Report, W. W. Norton, New York, 2004, p. 154.
2. Early on the report offers this explanation of the motives of the enemy: Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and political pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights for women. This is one of the few unsupported statements in an otherwise expertly documented report. As I will show later in this book, it is completely wrong to suggest that the political goal of the 9/11 attackers or their sponsors is global elimination of voting rights or womens rights or religious diversity. The report gives no evidence for this claim because there is no evidence for it. Fortunately the report does not continue this line of unfounded speculation. See p. xvi.
3. Al-Risala in Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam, Modern Library, New York, 2003, p. 157. Al-Maydan in Lance Morrow, Whos More Arrogant? Time, December 10, 2001. Sheikh Omar in Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, Clerical Error, The New Republic, August 8, 2005.
4. Thomas Friedman, The Land of Denial, New York Times, June 5, 2002, reprinted in Longitudes and Attitudes, Anchor Books, New York, 2003, p. 183. Edward Said, Islam and the West Are Inadequate Banners, Guardian, September 16, 2001. Stanley Hoffman, On the War, New York Review of Books, November 1, 2001, p. 6. George Bush, Address to Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001. Barbara Ehrenreich, The Empire Strikes Back, Village Voice, October 9, 2001. Hendrik Hertzberg and David Remnick, The Trap, The New Yorker, October 1, 2001, p. 38.
5. The 9/11 Commission Report, p. 169.
6. Terrorism of the rich is from Jean Baudrillard, The Spirit of Terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers, Verso, London, 2002, p. 23. Notes Found After the Hijackings, New York Times, September 29, 2001, p. B-3.
7. In for the Long Haul, New York Times, September 16, 2001.
8. George Bush, Address to the U.N. General Assembly, November 10, 2001.
9. George Bush, Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001. Bush, Address to Joint Session of Congress. Victor Davis Hanson, An Autumn of War, Anchor Books, New York, 2002, p. 170.
10. Bush, Address to Joint Session of Congress. Norman Podhoretz, Defending and Advancing Freedom, Commentary, November 2005, p. 56. The Week, National Review, August 29, 2005. Mustafa Akyol, Bolshevism in a Headdress, American Enterprise, April-May 2005, p. 29. George Bush, State of the Union Address, January 29, 2002.
11. Daniel Pipes, In the Path of God, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 2003, p. xi. Francis Fukuyama, Their Target: The Modern World, Newsweek, January 2002, special issue. John Gibson, Hating America, Regan Books, New York, 2004, p. 88. Bush, Address to Joint Session of Congress.
12. Tony Blair, speech to the Labor Party Conference, October 1, 2001.
13. Pipes, In the Path of God, p. xii. George Bush, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 2005.
14. George Bush, speech at the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C., October 6, 2005.
15. Dexter Filkins, Foreign Fighters Captured in Iraq Come from 27, Mostly Arab, Lands, New York Times, October 21, 2005, p. A-10.
16. Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Place of Tolerance in Islam, Beacon Press, Boston, 2002, p. 11.
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