D’Souza Doosey

Here's what's going to happen to Dinesh D'Souza, in short order. He's going to find his filthy moral preference for jihadism lifted — more in reluctance than glee — by the hard left he so despises. He won't have seen this coming, but there it'll be all the same. The ink's probably being spilled at the New Left Review: "Even a few American reactionaries are beginning to appreciate the post-colonial grievances of Al Qaeda…"

Then, realizing he has successfully alienated all his old cronies on the Reaganite right, finding himself welcome only in the uninspiring pages of Human Events, D'Souza will turn against his new frenemies on the third worldist left with lightning speed and the kind of intellectual honesty we've come to expect from him. ("My arguments were taken out of context by precisely those elements I blamed for causing 9/11 to happen in the first place," etc.)

Then of course it'll be too late. Been there, done that, Dinesh. You were something, boy, back in the day, when we needed a subcontinental spokesman to defend empire and assimilation, but you've past your sell-by date. Thanks for the memories.

Then something about a dimly lit motel room, scattered Ecstacy pills, Coulter crying over her bedizened Chanel crucifix, redemption, televangelist tours, etc., etc.

Bruce Bawer sees it all coming:

Promoting his tract on TV, D’Souza has consistently softened and misrepresented its message. His January 28 reply to critics, which ran in the Washington Post, is a masterpiece of dissembling: he complains that Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert hounded him with the question “But you agree with the Islamic radicals, don’t you?”—but fails to mention that he finally replied “Yes.” Indeed, though he purports to disdain those radicals, he writes about them far more compassionately than about anyone on the American left: Among the images he strives to improve are those of Theo van Gogh’s murderer (he quotes out of context a sensitive-sounding courtroom remark the butcher made to his victim’s mother), of bin Ladin and Khomeini (both of whom, we’re told, are “highly regarded” for their “modest demeanor, frugal lifestyle, and soft-spoken manner”), of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi (whose criticism of gay marriage he approvingly cites, while omitting to note that Qaradawi also supports the death sentence for sodomites), and even of the 9/11 terrorists (D’Souza excerpts the goodbye letter one of them sent his wife, which he plainly finds noble and poignant).

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