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Theocons of the world, unite: a prominent pundit wants American conservatives to make common cause with Muslim reactionaries.
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Reason
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 |
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access |
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Full Article Title: Theocons of the world, unite: a prominent pundit wants American conservatives to make common cause with Muslim reactionaries.(The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11)(Book review) |
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Article Excerpt
A FEW YEARS ago, I heard someone call into a right-wing radio show to rail against the feminists, the homosexuals, the atheists, and other usual suspects. The host enthusiastically agreed. The caller then voiced the hope that the host would join him in supporting the establishment of Islamic law in America, a twist that left the host sputtering incoherently.
These days, the idea of conservative Christians aligning themselves with radical Muslims is not a prank caller's gag but the subject of heated debate on the right. Dinesh D'Souza sparked the argument with his controversial book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 (Random House).
D'Souza's thesis is that America's cultural left brought 9/11 upon us--not, as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell infamously suggested shortly after the event, by inviting the wrath of God, but by inviting the wrath of Muslims. How? Mainly by fostering "a decadent American culture that angers and repulses traditional societies" and by "waging an aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family and to promote secular values."
That's quite a change from the normal right-wing position in the West. In a column...
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