IASPS ran an NBN this week on the response of a Jew and a Muslim to U.S. Christians (Texans as it happened) who think it’s time for Christians and Americans to acknowledge and stress  that America is a Christian nation. The aim of this IASPS Weekly oped is to comment by way of the non-Christian responses just noted; on mainly the Jews’ response.

 

Regarding the response of the Muslims we think there is little to say. We recently (May 31) printed parts of an essay by Lawrence Auster in which our own thinking on the matter of Muslims in America is represented. Here’s a paragraph from it.

 

“Instead of finding ourselves in the ever-deepening despair of seeing the power of Moslems with their Sharia and their mosques and their...hatred of Christianity and of Jews and their support for terrorism getting greater and greater among us, and seeing our own control over own society—and even our freedom to speak about what is happening to us—getting less and less, we would live once again in the hope that there is a future for ourselves and our country.”

 

In sum, we think it’s obvious enough what the Muslims are, and why they are in America. To be truthful, we think all Americans know these things are obvious. What Americans don’t know is what to do about the fact that Muslims are something to fear, most of all because our own American Elites, the university professors, school teachers, media people, politicians and others, have been falling over each other to show the Muslims they are welcome in America. The reason is they too are afraid of them. Hoping to use the fear of Muslims in the wider population as a means to control people they despise and whom they have alienated as a way to placate the Muslims they themselves fear is not far from being what there is of U.S. “policy” on the Muslims. It’s certainly British policy, French policy, and it’s also Israeli policy.  Accordingly, there is nothing much to learn from the fact that a Muslim in America thinks U. S. Christians have long been “off the charts.” Let’s turn to the Jews.

 

Mr. Harris thinks Christians are the “Right” and that “extremism” has now led to talk about America as a Christian nation. Mr. Harris says “American Jews” cherish the Wall of Separation between Church and State; Christians should not claim America is a Christian nation.

 

Regarding this one might raise two questions that Mr. Harris, and other Jews who think as he does (which is the largest part of the Jews) can consider. We pose them, giving what we think is the right answer to these questions as a matter of fact.

 

The first question is this: is it good for the Jews that America Christians, which is to say the vast majority of people who live in America, wish America to be a Christian country as such (that America is a Christian country in fact is the fact). In other words, is it good for Jews that instead of this country being directed in religious and cultural matters by the ACLU (in effect by the Jews for the Wall of Separation as the basis is the substance of the ACLU’s raison d’etre), that it be a Christian nation? For a very long time, centuries in fact, the Jews’ answer to this kind of question has been NO. We are of the view that the answer is YES.

 

The second question Jews who think along the lines of Mr. Harris might entertain is this: is it good for America if Christians turn now to make something of the fact that America is in substance, meaning not just in make-up or numbers as a fact a Christian Nation? The answer to this question as we see it is YES.

 

We print this oped without analysis to clear the ground for consideration of what is very likely the life-and-death matter for the United States; its lifeline to “live once again in the hope that there is a future for ourselves and our country.”  

 

In this vein it may be useful for readers to take a look at two recent comments on this subject that appeared on the WSJ editorial page. There is today’s oped by Mr. Henninger. Its title tells much but not all. We recommend you read “’Under God’ Is the Firm Link to U.S. Security.” (June 18, 2004). 

 

And just two days before Samuel P. Huntington (whose book of ten years ago indicating a “clash of civilizations” between Islam and the West is routinely deplored but mistaken only in the fact that he does not grasp that “Islam” includes the Western Elites on its side) published his own oped. A detailing of the fact of America as a Christian nation, its title is “’Under God’.”

 

The Institute proposes to continue this theme in subsequent Weekly Opeds. It is the basis of The Seminar. And since we have long maintained that Under God is in truth the firm link to U. S. security we hope to show why Texas “off the charts” has come about, and what it portends; first for the Muslims and Western Elites if they do not prevail as now it seems they will; second for the Jews if they abandon or retain the ACLU and leaders such as Mr. Harris; third for the Christians if they do not in fact make America a Christian nation.

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