<http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/1/15/194522.shtml?s=lh>
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NewsMax: Doesn't your attempt to find common cause between traditional Christians and traditional Muslims support the left's argument that religious "fundamentalists" on both sides are the real cause of this terror war?
D'Souza: Actually, it is the left that is allied with the radical Muslims. The Islamic radicals supply the terror, and the left uses that to demoralize the American people to persuade them to "cut and run" from Iraq and from the Middle East. My point is that conservatives should counter this by building alliances with the traditional Muslims, who are the majority in the Islamic world.
Look, we don't support polygamy, the veil, or the patriarchal family, but this is all standard fare in the traditional cultures of the world, not just the Islamic world but much of Asia and Africa as well. While traditional Muslims are conservative on social issues, studies show that they are overwhelmingly pro-democracy. Many of them will be more pro-American, and stay away from the bin Laden camp, if they see us as permitting Muslims to live in Islamic societies and to stand up for Muslim interests.
NewsMax: You note that many Muslims see the United Nations and other international organizations as tools of America, pushing a secular agenda even when these agencies often don't represent us. Why is that?
D'Souza: The United Nations, and many of the other international agencies that have mostly been abandoned by the right, have been taken over and staffed by leftist Americans and Europeans pushing a secular, anti-religious agenda worldwide. When Muslims see groups such as Amnesty International undermining traditional Muslim norms in the name of "human rights," and other groups filing lawsuits everywhere to change social legislation, they see America doing this. Many Muslims see that the secular left has been successful in emasculating Christianity in the United States, and virtually eliminating it in Europe, and believe that it's now trying to do the same to Islam. In this perception, of course, they're completely right.
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