More on D'Souza

More on Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 :

So far, 125 pages into it, D'Souza cites bin Laden's and contemporary Islamic intellectuals' railing against Western "decadence" - women's rights, sexual images, drugs and alcohol, our relative acceptance of homosexuality - as the Muslim finger pointing to the reasons for bin Laden's attacks on 9/11. Bin Laden constantly refers to these things, complains he does not want them poisoning the Arab/Moslem world, in his audios and videos "warning" us of fresh attacks, his harangues.

Not withstanding that bin Laden himself has had secret mistresses, and a reported passion for the music of The B52's and Van Halen, of an obsession with Whitney Houston. But then again, D'Souza argues that it is okay for a hypocrite to point out the same hypocrisy in someone else; exposing the evil trumps the exposer's own hypocrisy.

Anyway, D'Souza is taking at face value that the moral high ground bin Laden espouses as bin Laden's reasoning. Without considering that that all could be just a cover of palatable self-righteousness, for his fellow Muslims to digest.

More later.