Editing Dinesh D'Souza (section)

====''The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11''====
In early 2007, D'Souza published ''The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11'', in which he argues that the American cultural left was in large part responsible for the Muslim anger that led to the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name="salon.com/news">{{cite web|last1=Koppelman|first1=Alex|title=How the left caused 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza|url=http://www.salon.com/2007/01/20/d_souza_2|website=Salon.com|access-date=June 29, 2015|date=January 20, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703123243/http://www.salon.com/2007/01/20/d_souza_2/|archive-date=July 3, 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> He argues that Muslims do not hate America because of its freedom and democracy, but because they perceive America to be imposing its moral depravity (support for sexual licentiousness) on the world.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219722/eyeing-enemy/interview Eyeing the Enemy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422160242/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219722/eyeing-enemy/interview |date=April 22, 2012 }}, Nationalreview.com; retrieved May 20, 2012.</ref> D'Souza also argues that the [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse]] was a result of "the sexual immodesty of liberal America", and asserts that the conditions of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo Bay]] "are comparable to the accommodations in mid-level Middle Eastern hotels."<ref name=":1">{{cite web|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|date=February 6, 2007|title=Dispatch From Gomorrah, Savaging the Cultural Left|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/books/06kaku.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210530065708/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/books/06kaku.html|archive-date=May 30, 2021|access-date=May 30, 2021|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

The book was criticized in major American newspapers and magazines and described as, among other things, "the worst nonfiction book about terrorism published by a major house since 9/11"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011200082.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|title=Incendiary|first=Warren|last=Bass|date=January 14, 2007|access-date=May 1, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102174217/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011200082.html|archive-date=November 2, 2012}}</ref> and "a national disgrace".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Wolfe.t.html|title=The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 – By Dinesh D'Souza|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Alan|last=Wolfe|date=January 21, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315035519/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Wolfe.t.html|archive-date=March 15, 2017}}</ref> [[Michiko Kakutani]] in ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as "a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a ''Saturday Night Live'' parody of the crackpot right."<ref name=":1" />

D'Souza's book caused controversy in the conservative movement. His conservative critics widely mocked his thesis that the cultural left was responsible for 9/11. In response, D'Souza posted a 6,500-word essay on ''[[National Review Online]]'',<ref>{{cite news|first=Dinesh|last=D'Souza|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/03/closing-conservative-mind-part-i-dinesh-dsouza/|title=The Closing of the Conservative Mind|work=National Review Online|date=March 12, 2007|access-date=February 21, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425202011/https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/03/closing-conservative-mind-part-i-dinesh-dsouza/|archive-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref> and ''NRO'' subsequently published a litany of responses from conservative authors who accused D'Souza of character assassination, [[elitism]] and pseudo-intellectualism.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=NR Symposium|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/03/enemy-dsouza-knows-nro-symposium/|title=An NRO Symposium on ''The Enemy at Home''|magazine=National Review Online|date=March 16, 2007|access-date=February 21, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180425202011/https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/03/enemy-dsouza-knows-nro-symposium/|archive-date=April 25, 2018}}</ref>