Opinion: But which Haggard?

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Unbowed by blistering reviews, Dinesh D’Souza is defending his new book “The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11.”

In a screed that could just as easily be titled “Blame America First,” D’Souza attributes some of the Islamic unease with America to what might be called homosexual panic. He quotes Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, “an influential figure who is regularly featured on Al Jazeera,” as saying that “there are strong tendencies in the West to destroy the family. An example of this is the marriage of men with men, and women with women.’

But it isn’t only Muslim preachers who were useful to D’Souza as he frame dhis indictment of the gay-friendly cultural left. Among the people D’Souza thanks in his Acknowledgments is . . . Ted Haggard.