The Enemy at Home
Dinesh D’Souza has been criticized by both sides of the cultural divide on his views in his book, The Enemy at Home. His arguments have been accused as being too simplistic.
However, I’ve recently read an article by Fr. Piero Gheddo, a PIME missionary. His article titled, “Challenge of Islam is above all, cultural, religious”, that appeared in the Herald, Feb 18, 2007 issue. Fr. Gheddo’s comments basically agree with D’Souza’s, that it’s the decadent culture of the West that draws Islam to fill the gap left by Christianity that has been rejected by the masses in the West.
Although Muslims respect the technological, economic and military might of the West, they believe that the West is empty, without a soul. It’s their desire to fill the Western empty soul with Islam. This is where Christianity has to re assimilated into Western culture to avoid a Muslim invasion.
So maybe there is some truth to what D’Souza alludes to in his book.
