Posted on 01/23/2007 5:17:59 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Meanwhile, the Ummah offers us...beheadings with rusty knives. That's morality?
Have you read What's so Great About America? If you have, you will know that Mr. D'Souza loves America.
"the cultural Left is responsible for 9/11)"
It was only a matter of time before the political knives would come out in service of blaming partisan America for 9/11. I just thought it would be the left that would be sufficiently despicable to blame other Americans for Islam murdering us in the thousands. I was wrong.
Agreed. A powerful book, and right on the money. If someone thinks Dinesh D'Souza hates America, they don't know what they are talking about.
He is the epitome of what all immigrants to this country should be.
D'Souza is scheduled to be the guest on C-Span2's "In Depth" on Sunday February 4th - those both pro and con what he has to say will have three hours in which to call/e-mail with questions and comments for him - these first-Sunday-of-the-month sessions are usually fascinating......
Dinesh D'Souza is spot on. While I acknowledge your point that the perpetrators of 9/11 are indeed responsible for their actions, Mr. D'Souza's historical perspective is right on the money. The seeds were sown with American liberalism.
It may be true that if there was no Khomeini, there could still have been a Bin Laden or someone like him in the absence of Khomeini. But there was a Khomeini, and the root and rot of much of the current state of affairs can be traced back to that.
And it is not the French that caused the Shah to topple. It was not the Saudis. It was not the Soviets. Or the Chinese. It was Jimmy Carter and American liberalism that caused the downfall of the Shah.
'D'Souza is scheduled to be the guest on C-Span2's "In Depth" on Sunday February 4th - those both pro and con what he has to say will have three hours in which to call/e-mail with questions and comments for him - these first-Sunday-of-the-month sessions are usually fascinating......'
Thanks for letting us know...about D Souza being on C-span 2, He is one of my fav ever since I read 'Letters to a Young Conservative.
It's not that I'm averse to seeing deep roots. Shoot, I blame the French for WWII. But, and I am only being partly facetious, when we start blaming each other, the terrorists have won.
Sorry. Didn't mean to sound like I was lecturing there...I know what you mean.
However, I view the left, or precisely, the America hating moonbat left as being just as much, possibly more danger to this country than most muslims.
I guess I just don't see blaming the left as "blaming each other", since I don't really see them as "each other".
D'Souza is just throwing the librals' "why do they hate us" garbage back in their faces. They hate us because of you, librals. No it's not because of Ronald Reagan and global apartheid and the growing gap between the rich and the poor. It's because of you, "the pagans, the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America." Falwell was right.
"[blame those] who have tried to secularize America."
They hate us because we aren't Christian enough? Now I've heard it all.
Amen, brother.
Thanks. I'll try to catch it.
I read somewhere that among the first things the Iranian revolutionaries did was to ransack the Tehren offices of Planned Parenthood. Food for thought.
Not so. Iran had been sending students to the US for a long time under the Shah. At one point, they had nearly 50,000 students in the US, the largest number from any country.
It wasn't our democracy they despised. It was our very casual, recreational approach to sex and sexuality. They described us as decadent beyond anything they had imagined possible, and they were horrified that the Shah was bringing our depraved ways back to their own country. If they had not returned to Iran to help create the Islamic state there, I have no doubt that some of them would have started murdering Americans at random.
The students in the US were part of the coalition of forces outside and within Iran that formed the revolution. The mullahs, led by Khomeini, hijacked the revolution away from the intelligentsia and the bazaaries. The Shah was not liked by many because of the corruption, Western ways, and Savak, the secret police. I don't think sex and sexuality played that big a role except among the poor and illiterate. It is too simplistic an explanation. At one time, there were more women in the Iranian parliament than in the US Congress.
Many of the hijackers were not devout Muslims. During their stay in the US, they frequented bars and strip clubs. Many Saudis go to Egypt and Bahrain to experience the night life and sex for hire. The practice of Islam varies widely by country.
Another hate America 1ster.
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