Decent conservatives.
In the course of an otherwise delicious trashing of Dinesh D’Souza's new book, The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, Alan Wolfe writes:
I look forward to the reaction from decent conservatives and Republicans who will, if they have any sense of honor, distance themselves, quickly and cleanly, from the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Unfortunately, they have:
The humorlessness (“There is no humor in Islam,” said the Ayatollah Khomeini) and joylessness of Islam manifests the phoniness of its “morality,” a morality that is phony because it is merely the outward face of hidden decadence. Does Dinesh D’Souze not know that Saudi Arabia, where “morality” on the street is a function of the mutawwa, the Saudi version of religious enforcers for which there are analogues in other Muslim countries with rigorously faith-based legal systems, the real behavior of any Saudi who can get away with it is far more decadent than anything that could be dreamed up by the most decadent Westerners? Has he no idea how Saudis and other rich Arabs behave in the capitals of the West? Does he not know what they all do behind their palace walls in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the U.A.E.? What does he think goes on? And aside from the sexual behavior, what does he make of the camel-racing in which four and five year old boys, Pakistanis for the most part, are tied to the camels, and frequently are severely wounded or killed, and are treated as expendable beings, as are so many non-Arabs all over those horrific countries?
...And so on and so forth. No, I'm not defending camel-racing or suggesting the Middle East isn't screwed up, but D’Souza's book is actually the perfect foil for hatin' on the A-raabs while earning mod points for trashing a nutball of the right.
By the way, wondering where D'Souza's mind has been wandering in the meantime? Porn. (Purely condemnatory of course! And careful of the link; it's got one of those hidden pop-up ad things.)
I look forward to the reaction from decent conservatives and Republicans who will, if they have any sense of honor, distance themselves, quickly and cleanly, from the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Unfortunately, they have:
The humorlessness (“There is no humor in Islam,” said the Ayatollah Khomeini) and joylessness of Islam manifests the phoniness of its “morality,” a morality that is phony because it is merely the outward face of hidden decadence. Does Dinesh D’Souze not know that Saudi Arabia, where “morality” on the street is a function of the mutawwa, the Saudi version of religious enforcers for which there are analogues in other Muslim countries with rigorously faith-based legal systems, the real behavior of any Saudi who can get away with it is far more decadent than anything that could be dreamed up by the most decadent Westerners? Has he no idea how Saudis and other rich Arabs behave in the capitals of the West? Does he not know what they all do behind their palace walls in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the U.A.E.? What does he think goes on? And aside from the sexual behavior, what does he make of the camel-racing in which four and five year old boys, Pakistanis for the most part, are tied to the camels, and frequently are severely wounded or killed, and are treated as expendable beings, as are so many non-Arabs all over those horrific countries?
...And so on and so forth. No, I'm not defending camel-racing or suggesting the Middle East isn't screwed up, but D’Souza's book is actually the perfect foil for hatin' on the A-raabs while earning mod points for trashing a nutball of the right.
By the way, wondering where D'Souza's mind has been wandering in the meantime? Porn. (Purely condemnatory of course! And careful of the link; it's got one of those hidden pop-up ad things.)
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Dinesh D'Souza has contributed one, and exactly one, useful thing to political discourse--his book Illiberal Education was a pretty good summary of campus political correctness (although his right-wing-hack attempts to connect P. C. to all liberalism everywhere were dishonest, of course). Since then, he's been a standard-issue right-wing hack.
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