Dinesh D' Souza

Dinesh D’ Souza was born on April 25th, 1961 in Mumbai, India and moved to the United States 17 years later. This allowed him to have two perspectives on the United States: how the people of the United States view themselves and how others view the United States. All of his life, he tried to see both sides of the story. As discussed in this article, Dinesh first thought that Bin Laden was a “a dark-eyed fanatic, a gun-toting extremist, a monster who laughs at the deaths of 3,000 innocent civilians.”, but after finding out what the Muslim community thought of him he changed his perspective to Bin Laden being “a quiet, well-mannered, thoughtful, eloquent and deeply religious person.” We usually do not see both sides of the story due to the media having a biest opinion of the story. Dinesh talks about other things that we might view as radical such as: September 11th being our fault, the government having “domestic insurgents” such as Hilary Clinton and Ted Kennedy, and other things. He has been known, however, to mess up facts. I believe that what Dinesh D’Souza does is right. The first thing he does is get two different perspectives on a story and only then judge the event or people. This is how our history class tries to gather information. We find the beist of the source and only then take what the source says as a fact.