According to Dinesh D’Souza, Bin Laden Doesn’t Hate the U.S., He Hates the Cultural Left

Apparently, Dinesh D’Souza, who has been embarrassing himself with wanna-be-academic bomb throwing books for years, has finally thoroughly discredited himself. A fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, D’Souza in his latest work The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, claims that bin Laden and al-Qaeda don’t hate the U.S. because of its policies in the Mideast and the Muslim world but rather because of the “decadence” of America’s “cultural left.”

Read the WPost review calling the polemic the “worst nonfiction book about terrorism from a major publishing house since 9/11,” and this excerpt summarizing D’Souza below:

Here’s the main argument, such as it is. Why has al-Qaeda targeted America? “Not because of U.S. troops in Mecca,” D’Souza writes.Not even because of Israel. . . . The suicide bombers of radical Islam are not blowing themselves up because they are distressed over the Gulf War of 1991 or because they are in solidarity with the Palestinians.” Rather, “what bin Laden objected to was America staying in the Middle East, importing with it the immoral ingredients of American values and culture.” That makes the left “responsible for 9/11” because it “has fostered a decadent American culture that angers and repulses traditional societies” and has waged “an aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family and to promote secular values in non-Western cultures.” In sum, “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.”