good ole’ D’Souza!

Being scared of Tea Partiers is like being scared of Ward and June Cleaver.

LOL. They are scared by normalcy. As DiSouza points out, atheism is the opiate of the dissolute.

And on the mosque, that’s the issue: whose money is talking?

Is there a petition or something bringing up the issue of St. Nicholas? I would think that we would get a LOT of support outside of the Orthodox on this matter, now that the mosque is such a hot topic.

agreed.

As far I see it. This issue is about location.

Islam is about the only disagreement I have with Ron Paul. But he isn’t a Libertarian by any means. The good thing is, however, that he also isn’t a contemporary liberal or neo-conservative.

A major point that I have with about half of the “Campaign for Liberty” folk is that they believe free market/captialism and Liberty means anarchy and godlessness. This couldn’t be further from the truth. A close study of Hayek and our Founders will show you that they weren’t against planning, they were against the planning that went against competition. They also believed that the only way Captialism could survive would be with a high level of morality, compassion, and mercy.

Something that we all lack more and more.

Fr John, one of the silver linings of 9-11, was that it is waking up many conservatives from their neo-con, Fukuyamaist, secularist. libertarian, and rationalist fantasies. (And this goes for some of the Buchananites and Ron Paul types who don’t understand the visceral hatred of Islam for the West.)

We can start here

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/europe/30swiss.html

In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, in a referendum drawn up by the far right and opposed by the government.

The referendum, which passed with a clear majority of 57.5 percent of the voters and in 22 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, was a victory for the right. The vote against was 42.5 percent. Because the ban gained a majority of votes and passed in a majority of the cantons, it will be added to the Constitution.

The Swiss Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the rightist Swiss People’s Party, or S.V.P., and a small religious party had proposed inserting a single sentence banning the construction of minarets, leading to the referendum.

The Swiss government said it would respect the vote and sought to reassure the Muslim population — mostly immigrants from other parts of Europe, like Kosovo and Turkey — that the minaret ban was “not a rejection of the Muslim community, religion or culture.”

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We ought to study how the Swiss rallied an effective resistance to Islam in this last year. How was the reality of the threat of Islamic supremacism conveyed in such a way that the Swiss, who have no cultural memories of a direct threat, could respond effectively?

Around these parts, Ward and June are hard to find. More like Clevis and Rev.Dr. Billy-Bob.
I hope we do not have to bag our tea in order to achieve a functional autocephaly here.
The thing is, I see no logical link between TEA and the Cordoba & St Nicholas issues. It would be impossible to make the argument that their ideology has any connection with core Catholic sensibilities, only that right-leaning Catholics are now on that same TEA wagon, the political-right flavor of the month.

But this is beside the point.

What matters is that justice is done in regard to the rebuilding of our church and that people in the West begin to understand how Muslims think, and quit this habit of seeing the world through Fukuyama’s coke-bottle-bottom lenses. We are not living in the end of history. Nor will the Rovererarian peyote hallucination that we are post-rational supermen no longer hampered by mere reality equip middle America to handle a shifting theological/political landscape in the XXI c. We must listen to intelligent voices who are honest about the significance of Islam and have no agenda to deceive. I suggest checking our Wally Shoebat and Ibn Warraq for instance.

P.S. I’ve attended a Tea Party and was impressed by the rectitude and normality of the people there. Just because the Insane Clown Posse over at MSNBC is frightened means that they’ve lost all perspective. Being scared of Tea Partiers is like being scared of Ward and June Cleaver.