The Enemy Within

Little Green Footballs today reports that the Koran toilet thrower has been charged with two felonies. Imagine, two felonies for throwing a book into a toilet. The student arrested is Stanislav Shmulevich. He faces financial ruin in defending himself from these ridiculous charges, brought through the activities of CAIR and the Muslim Student Union.

The fact that an unAmerican, subversive organization like CAIR can operate with impunity in the USA only shows how far our country has gone down the road to Islamization. We are being sold out - by the traitorous Left. The enemy is not only the Taliban and other barbarians, the enemy is right here in the United States. The enemy within is not only CAIR and other Muslims, the enemy is the Democratic Party and leftists and liberals (most especially the teachers and trustees of our subversive Universities) who openly throw their lot in with the barbarians who would kill us all if they could.

Yes, I do support the mass export of Muslims out of the United States. Yes, I do support the closing of all mosques in the United States. Yes, I do support the immediate cessation of any further Muslim immigration into the United States. Islam is an evil ideology masquerading as religion; it, like Nazism and Communism, must be made to feel unwelcome in these United States. Since Islam tolerates no one outside its sphere, it is suicidal and insane to tolerate IT.

To show the utter bankruptcy of liberal thought, we now have proof that most prisoners released from Gitmo immediately return to fight Americans in Afghanistan or Iraq. Liberals have been howling for "Constitutional rights" for these terrorists for some time now, for trying them in a court of law or releasing them. Liberals got their wish, and now their buddies are once again killing people.

The enemy within is not just Muslim. The enemy within is also the liberals, leftists and Democrats who give them moral and political support.

See my post of July 3rd for more on this subject, Saber Point: Liberalism Is A Fatal Form of Insanity.

D'Souza's Destructive New Book

Dinesh D'Souza's destructive new book "The Enemy At Home" is apparently a best seller. D'Souza has done a tremendous disservice to the cause of truth and Western resistance to Islamic aggression. Basically, his thesis is that the West should suck up to Islam more while rationalizing its aggression and denigrating those who resist. D'Souza reinforces old errant myths and invents a few new ones in his ignorance of Islam.

D'Souza's attempt to blame 9/11 on liberal morals is mere scapegoating and is easily refuted. Devout Muslims would not approve of the morals of the most devout Christian conservatives either - we don't cover our women in burqas nor segregate by gender. To Muslims, those who reject Islam reject "God" and have committed a crime against "God" and thus deserve death. There is no sucking up to Islam nor any other action save that of conversion that will placate Islamic radicals. To pretend otherwise does a disservice to conservatives as much as to liberals.

Powerline blog has a good post today describing D'Souza's insipid nonsense. Read it here.

A more comprehensive rebuttal can be read here.

Dinesh D'Souza Blows It

Dinesh D'Souza has written some ground-breaking books in his time, including Illiberal Education (the politics of race and sex on campus) and his 1995 eye-opener, The End of Racism. The latter did more to change my opinions on racial issues than anything I ever read. Before it I viewed racial issues through the same popular mishmash of myth and wishful thinking that most other educated people did.

The Enemy at Home is D'Souza's latest and it does not deserve the same acclaim earned by his earlier efforts. The major reasons for this are these: (1) the book is based on a false premise, i.e. that Muslims hate us because of our immorality and tolerance for gays and (2) the book is mere pandering to those Westerners who hold religious values.

D'Souza would have us believe that it is the immorality of liberals and leftists who have made us the target of Islamic rage. However, one modern Muslim radical, Sayyid Qutb, was a student in Colorado during the late 1940's. Qutb was an Egyptian whose fundamentalist texts are still revered in the Muslim world today. He wrote about how disgusted he was with the immorality of the Americans of that time period, of how men and women freely intermixed in social contexts and even danced, their chests pressing against one another. Obviously, we can't merely go back to the 40's to fulfill D'Souza's fantasy, we must go back even further. How about the 18th Century, the time of Thomas Jefferson, who by the way, owned a copy of the Qur'an.

No, that wouldn't work either. In Jefferson's time the Barbary Pirates (Muslims) were attacking American shipping, robbing ships of goods and kidnapping sailors to press into slavery. Besides, they danced the Minuet in those days, where men and women freely mixed in social situations and even touched hands together.

These facts lead unalterably to one conclusion: D'Souza, you're nuts.

Books like this do far more harm than good, because they deny the reality of Islam's implaccable intolerance of other religions - no matter what their beliefs. There is nothing we can do about this fact, short of adopting Sharia law, putting burqas on our women, and worshipping Allah and Mohammed.