Is This War

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Is This War?
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Part 1 The War from the East

• Session 1.1 Is This War?
• Session 1.2 Islam One of the Great Monotheistic
  Religions
• Session 1.3 The Fight for the Soul of Islam
• Session 1.4 Dar al-Islam - The House of War
• Session 1.5 The Global Caliphate
• Session 1.6 Islam Religion of Peace?
• Session 1.7 The History of the Conflict
• Session 1.8 Poverty in Islamic Nations

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Outline

• 9/11
• Two Jihadist Visions
• Is This World War III?
• Islamists War Against Modernity
• The War of Ideas
• Will we believe bin Laden and Ahmadinejad?
• Something to live and die for!

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September 11, 2001
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9/11
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The Prelude

• February 26, 1993 Bombing of the World Trade
  Center
• 6 deaths
• 1042 injuries

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The Prelude

• November 13, 1995 Bombing of U.S. Saudi
  military base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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The Prelude

• June 25, 1996 Bombing of U.S. military base in
  Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• 19 U.S. Servicemen killed

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The Caves in Tora Bora
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The Prelude

• August 23, 1996
• bin Laden declares war against the United
  States Declaration of War against the
  Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy
  Places

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The Prelude

• February 23, 1998 bin Laden re-states Fatwa
  against the USA
• Published in Al-Quds Al-Arabi
• London-based Arab newspaper

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The Fatwa

• The ruling to kill the Americans and their
  allies civilian and military is an individual
  duty for every Muslim who can do it in any
  country in which it is possible to do it, . and
  fight the pagans all together as they fight you
  all together . fight them until there is no more
  tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice
  and faith in Allah.

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The Prelude

• August 7, 1998 Bombing of U.S. Embassies in
  Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Love Death More Than Life

• These youths love death as you love
  life...These youths will not ask you for
  explanations. They will sing out that there is
  nothing between us that needs to be explained,
  there is only killing and neck-smiting.
• Osama bin Laden to
• U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry

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Love Life or Death
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The Prelude

• October 12, 2000 U.S.S. Cole attacked in Yemen
• 17 Sailors killed
• 39 wounded

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9/11

• Sept 11, 2001
• USA attacked by al Qaeda
• 2974 people killed
• From 90 countries
• 318th anniversary of the defeat of the Ottoman
  Empire at the gates of Vienna
• Avenging the defeat of the Muslim armies in the
  heart of Europe

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9/11

• Targets carefully considered
• World Trade Center symbol of U.S. economic
  power
• Pentagon symbol of U.S. military might
• U.S. Capitol symbol of U.S. political power

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Two Jihadist Visions

• Sunni and Shia

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Two Jihadist Visions
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Is This World War III?

• A Tipping Point

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Two Fronts

• Migration and demographics
• Large numbers of Muslims are moving to the
  secular and anti-maternal Western world
• Led to a peaceful Islamization of Europe in a
  generation
• Jihad Holy War

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World War III

• I am firmly convinced that the world
  confronts a situation that is frighteningly
  similar to a Third World War, one every bit as
  serious and dangerous as the two great conflicts
  of the 20th Century.
• Newt Gingrich
• Historian and Speaker of the
• U.S. House of Representatives

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A Whole New History

• And so, as I watched live on CNN as the twin
  Towers imploded and collapsed onto the streets of
  Manhattan, it was equally obvious to me that
  history, wherever it had been heading before the
  morning of September 11, had taken another turn,
  and a whole new history would flow from this
  towering inferno.
• Thomas Friedman
• Longitudes and Attitudes

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Islamists War Against Modernity
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Clash of Two Civilizations

• Two global civilizations appear to be poised in
  a complex confrontation on various levels of
  human activity. One is based in Muslim countries
  and the other in the West Commentators are
  already seeing the confrontation in apocalyptic
  terms and calling it the Last Crusade.
• Akbar S. Ahmed
• Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies,
• American University
• in Washington, D.C.

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Where Is the Church?

• Too often the Church in the West lumps herself
  with the secular West and does not provide a
  vibrant 3rd way.
• There are three faith systems vying for world
  influence (or domination depending on your
  perspective)
• Islam Monotheistic and moral
• Atheism (Secular Materialism) and amoral
• Biblical Theism Monotheistic and moral

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Where Is the Church?
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The Culture Wars

• These two world views Judeo-Christian theism
  and secular humanism stand as totals in complete
  antithesis to each other in content and also in
  their natural results - including sociological
  and governmental results, and specifically
  including law.
• Francis Schaeffer
• Evangelist and Apologist

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The Culture Wars

• It is not that these two world views are
  different only in how they understand the nature
  of reality and existence. They also inevitably
  produce totally different results. The operative
  word here is inevitably. It is not just that
  they happen to bring forth different results, but
  it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring
  forth different results.
• Francis Schaeffer

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The War for the Heart and Soul of Nations

• For thoughtful and committed Christians, the war
  is on two fronts
• The Jihadist ideology from the East
• The Atheistic ideology in the West
• Both ideologies stand against freedom and basic
  human rights
• Christians must stand and fight with a better set
  of ideas that are articulated and fleshed out.

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The War of Ideas
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The Strongholds of the Mind

• 3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage
  war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight
  with are not the weapons of the world. On the
  contrary, they have divine power to demolish
  strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every
  pretension that sets itself up against the
  knowledge of God, and we take captive every
  thought to make it obedient to Christ.
• 2 Corinthians 10 3-5

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Strongholds

• Greek pochuroma 1 a castle, stronghold,
  fortress, fastness. 2 anything on which one
  relies. 2a of the arguments and reasonings by
  which a disputant endeavours to fortify his
  opinion and defend it against his opponent.
• Means
• Mental strongholds
• Mindsets or ideologies

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The Goal New World Order

• Jihad Global Caliphate
• Secularism One World Government
• Christianity Freedom (with responsibility)

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Three Great Monotheistic Religions

• Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• An Infinite-Personal God exists
• In contrast to
• Atheism There is no God. Man or the state is the
  ultimate authority.
• Monism and Polytheism nature is God
• There is a transcendent God and metaphysical and
  moral truth.

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Three Great Monotheistic Religions

• Consequences of Monotheism
• Order in the universe development of science
  and technology
• Man the image of God justice and human rights
• Transcendent purpose in life
• Foundation for transcendent truth, goodness and
  beauty
• Progress in the material world

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Reason and Revelation
REASON

• Jews
• Christians
• (moderate) Muslims

• Atheism
• Pagan humanism

NO REVELATION
REVELATION

• Muslims (Jihadists)
• Some Christians
• Some traditional religions

• Pagan Animism
• New Age

NON-REASON
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How to Fight the War of Ideas

• Jihadism by the sword
• Secularism by intimidation and coercion
• Christianity by persuasion

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Will We Believe bin Laden and Ahmadinejad?
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The Wests Grid

• Moral and cultural relativism
• There is no such thing as evil
• All cultures are the same (make no value
  judgment)
• Humankind is basically good
• The root of problems is social, political and
  economic.
• Fail to take religion seriously
• See economic poverty as the driving root of the
  angry young Muslim men
• Blind to history (this is a modern conflict
  beginning on 9/11)

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This War Is About Ideas

• This war is not about economic frustration.
• It is about religion - belief sacred belief
  systems.
• the supremacy of Islam and the inferiority of the
  West
• Bringing the world into submission to Allah and
  the Koran

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A Better Set of Ideas

• Both Atheism and Islam think they have a better
  set of ideas.
• In the West
• Atheism is dying
• Rise of Neo-Paganism Post-Modernism
• In the East
• Osama bin Laden is capturing the minds and
  imaginations of the youth.
• He is offering them something to die for.

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Something to Live and Die For!
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Questions

• What is your response to what you have heard?
• What are the implications of loving death more
  than life?
• What are you living for?
• Is there anything that you are willing to die for?

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Something to Die For

• Secularism Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow
  we die.
• Islam Allah, the Koran, Paradise and 72 virgins!
  Yes, and to KILL for
• Christianity live and die for Christ and His
  kingdom

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Something to Live and Die For!

• Christians are called to die for but not kill for
  Christ.
• Symbol of Islam is the sword of Christianity it
  is the cross self-sacrifice.
• The arsenal that Christians fight with
• Love and service (Gospel moves forward on the
  knees of the saints)
• Better ideas Truth, Beauty and Justice

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Symbols of the Faith