D’Souza discounts the fact that “The radical Muslims are against modernity and science and democracy” and goes on to say:
The traditional Muslims are our best bet. Besides, they’re not asking us to live like them. They’re asking us not to attack their religion, which conservatives do with depressing regularity. They’re asking us not to force secularism and separation of church and state on their society, another foolish cause to which some conservatives subscribe.
Here D’Souza misses an absolutely crucial point.
The “War on Terror” is in a sense the struggle of a post-Enlightenment West against a medievalist Islam. But in the Islamic world, the “traditionalists” and even “moderates” are just as medievalist as the extremists in some ways. Pushing for the victory of secularism and separation of church and state in Islamic society, which D’Souza waves away as a foolish habit of ours, is indeed one of the keys to the entire struggle.
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DeezNuts said,
January 17, 2007 at 11:13 am
Karl Lembke said,
And if U.S. conservatives of any stripe responded to insults and defamation the way Muslims do, half of the people in “The Industry” would be dead, and the other half under armed guard.
The point I was making was, it doesn’t matter how respectful you are toward Muslims as a rule. If you do one thing they find offensive, you’re instantly a Muslim Basher.
January 17, 2007 at 4:35 pm