Pravda: The global crisis and the appropriation of wealth

PRAVDA, 2/12/2013 - Reading articles published by Pravda, are interesting in that they let us know how others see us. "The global crisis and the appropriation of wealth" by Gelio Fregapani (translated from the Portuguese version of Pravda/RU) is such an article. Read it here... Read More......

Father Schall on the Fragility of Islam

Fr. James V. Schall S.J. remains at the age of 83 an indispensable voice in foreign policy, combining theological depth and strategic acuity. “The Fragility of Islam” is the subject of his latest pronouncement at the Catholic Thing blog. Western analysts tend to accept the narrative of Muslim triumphalism, the assertion that the strong faith of the Islamic world will overwhelm the temporizing and vacillating West. Not so, Fr. Schall argues: Islam itself is “as fragile as communism.” He writes:

The major change Islam looks to is not modernization or objective truth but, in a stable world, the submission to Allah of all men under a caliphate wherein no non-believers are found.

We still look back at communism, at least the non-oriental variety, with some astonishment in this regard. Almost no one thought it could “fall” without a major military encounter. That it disintegrated so quickly and so completely seems incomprehensible to anyone but a John Paul II. He understood its frailty, its failure to understand the human soul and its origins….

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Geert Wilders in Rome: Defending the West from Cultural Relativism and Jihad

AMERICAN THINKER, 3/26/2011 by Andrew G. Bostom (Hat tip: John H. Detweiler via MILINET/email) - Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders made a seminal address yesterday evening (March 25, 2011) at the Annual Lecture of the Magna Carta Foundation in Rome, Italy. ∴ As is his wont, Wilders presentation moved far beyond the timorous platitudes about the most obvious (and dangerous) failures of cultural relativism belatedly echoed by Western European leaders Angela Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, and David Cameron. Wilders demands that the West acknowledge the jihad-both cultural and military-being waged against it openly and incessantly by institutional Islam, Muslim nations, and the global umma. The Ducth Parlaimentarian concludes his eloquent and informative speech by insisting that four concrete measures must be taken immediately, quoting Ronald Reagan, so we can "...act today to preserve tomorrow."

1. Defend freedom of speech
   
2. End cultural relativism and re-assert our belief in the superiority of Western culture compared to Islamic culture
   
3. Stop the Islamization of the West because, "more Islam means less freedom."
   
4. Restore the supremacy and sovereignty of the nation-state

Wilder's speech in its entirety, is reproduced [at]: American Thinker... Read More......