The controversial writer, Dinesh D’Souza, is out with his latest book and it is called ‘The Enemy at Home’. Dinesh D’Souza is the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His new book is filled with intentionally provocative and unbelievable allegations that the cultural dearth in the country is only responsible for causing 9/11 attacks and that the left is ’secretly allied’ with the Osama bin Laden movement to weaken the Bush government and the foreign policy of America.
He, in his out righteous style writes that the American prisons at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, ‘are comparable to the accommodations in midlevel Middle Eastern hotels’ in respect of cleanliness, food and amenities. He also argues over the point that the abuse at Abu Ghraib is nothing but ‘the sexual immodesty of liberal America’ and so, is not at all what we may regard as a disregard for human rights. His central ideas and arguments may sound absurd but are definitely interesting as they are built around two counter points. By ‘cultural left,’ Mr. D’Souza points out, he doesn’t mean the entire Democratic Party, but he includes in his list, not just the usual lefty suspects, like Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky, but also the main hotshots politicians like Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jimmy Carter and also journalists like Garry Wills and several New York Times columnists.
The theories took up by Mr. D’Souza are however, being doubted to be based on false information and half truths. Regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. D’Souza states that ‘the important point is that 50 million Afghans and Iraqis are free, and for the first time in their history, they have a chance to control their own destiny,’ and adds that ‘liberals tend to emphasize the negative and take genuine relish in the failures of American foreign policy.’ He also states an absurd point of view, that the Muslims are angry regarding the undermining of their religious, traditional family values due to liberalization ideas especially in the case of women. He also praises the bush admin for trying to put the ideas of democracy in Iraq.
In the course of this book, Mr. D’Souza contends that freedom in America ‘has come to be defined by its grossest abuses’ and grumble that in movies and television shows too, ‘the white businessman in the suit is usually the villain,’ ‘prostitutes are always portrayed more favorably and decently than anyone who criticizes them’ and ‘homosexuals are typically presented as good-looking and charming, and unappealing features of the gay lifestyle are either ignored or presented in an amusing light.’ The book is certainly a mind boggler and needs to be examined between two themes. The price tag reads somewhere around $26.95.
Source: NY Times
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