James Taranto at Best of the Web has something so good I hope you share it with friends and family:  The British philosopher Roger Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude: oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us', and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours.' " What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left.[snip] [Scruton's warning]lluminates how what are sometimes dismissed as mere matters of "culture" tie in with economic and social policy:The oik repudiates national loyalties and defines his goals and ideals against the nation, promoting transnational institutions over national governments, accepting and endorsing laws that are imposed on us from on high by the EU or the UN, [snip] and defining his political vision in terms of universal values that have been purified of all...(Read Full Post)