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Hey, kids, and good Christians everywhere. Dust off those swords and swing that mace. It's that jolly time of year again — Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week. Let's party.

In case you didn't get the memo, the purpose of Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week is:

...to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat.

Barbara Ehrenreich describes this cause celebre thusly:

[A] veritable witches' brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism mixed in with old-fashioned, right-wing anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.

Overstated you say? Not if you consider some of the honored speakers at Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week events:

• Ann Coulter, who has opined that America "would be a much better country if women did not vote," and that Christians are "perfected Jews."

• Rick Santorum, who blames "radical feminism" for destroying the American family.

• Christina Hoff Sommers, who warns of feminists whom Rush Limbaugh delights in calling femiNazis.

But Ehrenreich concedes that maybe she's missed the point of Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week:

Maybe it's really an effort to show that our own American anti-feminists (and anti-Semites) are just as nasty as the ones on the other side. If so, good job, guys!