Author contends liberals have fostered Islam's anti-West fervor

Author contends liberals have fostered Islam's anti-West fervor

Author and former Reagan White House policy analyst Dinesh D'Souza says leaders of the cultural left must be held accountable for their responsibility in fueling the hatred in the Islamic world against the West.

D'Souza has recently released the paperback version of his New York Times best-selling book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. He says leaders of the cultural left -- individuals like Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York), Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), journalist Bill Moyers, and filmmaker Michael Moore -- have fostered a decadent and depraved society that angers and repulses other societies. D'Souza says the Islamic world does not realize that ordinary America is not that way.

"It's interesting because I don't consider the West as a whole to be morally depraved. There are Americans who do live by traditional values, but you don't see those guys on TV shows or in the movies," he maintains. "So the ordinary Muslim on the streets of Islamabad or Cairo doesn't the see the real America."

It makes no sense, says D'Souza, for liberals to embrace Islam. "That's the paradox. The radical Muslims are the most illiberal people in the world," he adds. "In other words, they are ... the people the most opposed to what you could call liberal values; and yet ironically it's the liberals who don't want to have a comprehensive strategy of fighting radical Islam."

D'Souza says liberals' outspoken opposition to American foreign policy contributes to a growing antagonism that encourages people both at home and abroad to blame America for the problems of the world, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks.