How America is a Threat

[According to world opinion surveys by the Pew Research Center and others,] huge majorities of more than 80 percent of people in Indonesia, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, Egypt, and Turkey say they want to protect their values from foreign assault. The Pew study concludes that there is a "widespread sense" that American values, often presented as the values of modernity itself, "represent a major threat to people's traditional way of life." These sentiments are felt very keenly in the Muslim world. . . .

There seems to be a growing belief in traditional cultures that America is materially prosperous but culturally decadent. It is technologically sophisticated but morally depraved. . . .

As these observations suggest, the main source of Muslim rage is not American foreign policy but American popular culture as it is projected around the world.

-- Dinesh D'Souza, townhall.com, 4/10/07