Editing Dinesh D'Souza (section)

===Media appearances and speaking engagements===
D'Souza has appeared on numerous national television networks and programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.speakersnetworkworldwide.com/SpeakerDetails/7225/Dinesh-DSouza.html|title=Dinesh D'Souza profile|publisher=Speakers Network Worldwide|access-date=September 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206011359/http://www.speakersnetworkworldwide.com/SpeakerDetails/7225/Dinesh-DSouza.html|archive-date=December 6, 2010|url-status=usurped|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Six days after the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001, attacks]], D'Souza appeared on ''[[Politically Incorrect]]'' hosted by [[Bill Maher]]. He disputed the assertion that terrorists were cowards by saying, "Look at what they did. You have a whole bunch of guys who were willing to give their life; none of them backed out. All of them slammed themselves into pieces of concrete. These are warriors." Maher agreed with D'Souza's comments and said, "We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from two thousand miles away."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/29/arts/think-tank-in-new-war-on-terrorism-words-are-weapons-too.html|title=In New War on Terrorism, Words Are Weapons, Too|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Celestine|last=Bohlen|date=September 29, 2001|access-date=June 6, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113004142/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/29/arts/think-tank-in-new-war-on-terrorism-words-are-weapons-too.html|archive-date=November 13, 2013}}</ref>

During an interview on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' on January 16, 2007, while promoting his book ''The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11'', D'Souza maintained that [[Liberalism in the United States|liberals]] had some responsibility for the September 11 attacks. He said liberals' "[[Interventionism (politics)|penchant for interference]]" had a decided effect in convincing the [[Presidency of Jimmy Carter|Carter administration]] to withdraw support from the [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah]], which brought on Muslim fundamentalists' control of the [[Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran|Iranian government]]. He also said that the distorted representation of American culture on television is one source of [[Anti-Americanism|resentment of the United States]] by Muslims worldwide. D'Souza believes that traditional Muslims are not too different from traditional Jews and Christians in America. Towards the end of the interview, he admitted that he and Islamic militants share some of the same negative beliefs about liberal Americans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/80900/january-16-2007/dinesh-d-souza|title=The Colbert Report|publisher=colbertnation.com|date=January 16, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605174503/http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/80900/january-16-2007/dinesh-d-souza|archive-date=June 5, 2010}}</ref>

In late February 2017, students at [[Trinity University (Texas)|Trinity University]] in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], stole more than 200 flyers advertising D'Souza's planned appearance at the university the first week of March. D'Souza called the protest "pathetic", and suggested the demonstrators "Come out and debate me. In the best case you may win; in the worst, you'll learn something". Twin brothers Manfred and Jonah Wendt, co-founders of the student conservative group Tigers for Liberty, had passed around 600 notices of D'Souza's visit to campus. Those returned by the protesters contained negative comments about D'Souza.<ref>{{cite news|first=Lauren|last=Caruba|url=https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Conservative-student-group-s-fliers-defaced-at-10964039.php|title=Conservative student group's fliers defaced at Trinity|newspaper=[[San Antonio Express-News]]|date=February 27, 2017|access-date=February 21, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222105244/https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/Conservative-student-group-s-fliers-defaced-at-10964039.php|archive-date=February 22, 2018}}</ref>