"The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11" By Dinesh D'Souza, Random House, Inc., 352 pages, $26.95
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."
For sure, even some conservatives may do a double-take on that charge.
But before every liberal in America blows a collective gasket, the term "cultural left" to D'Souza doesn't refer to the Democratic Party, or to all liberals. Nor is he saying that anyone on the cultural left actually attacked us on 9/11. And the book avoids much of the strident rhetoric seen in other "liberal-bashing" books.
"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," explains D'Souza.
These are the true "root causes" liberals are always looking for, but seem to always miss or get wrong.
What he means by this is that the secular progressive left during the past few decades, with its focus on promoting and even glorifying (at home and abroad) what most of the world's more traditional societies see as depravity and atheism, has provoked a backlash among traditional, moderate Muslims who see their religious and moral values threatened by an aggressive, immoral, anti-religious crusade.
Poster Comment:
I posted this for laughs. I thought it was all that Thermite that cut through the steel girders. Seriously, the cultural left was invented after the failed Jewish-Communist revolution in Hungary after World War I. The Jewish intellectuals moved to Frankfurt where the Jewish bankers, the Illuminati and the devil worshipping rabbi Jacob Frank all got their start. The commies found it rough going in Hungary when the miners union came out against what we would today call the cultural left anti-family values.
I have heard a radio interview with D'Souza. He is from the former Portuguese colony of Goa which was absorbed by India circa 1962. D'Souza is a Sephardic Jewish name if that means anything.