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A Moral Mission and Moral Vision for America

by Darrell W. Pack

The U.S. State Department now claims that forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have recently used chemical weapons. The information comes via the U.S. consul in Istanbul and based on interviews with doctors, Syrian defectors from the Syrian Army, and activists, who together make a compelling case that the Syrian military had used Agent 15, or BZ gas, in Homs last month against the Sunni-majority opposition. Then again the State Department challenges the report and conclusion, stating that it “found no credible evidence to corroborate or to confirm that chemical weapons were used.” Is anyone getting confused here?

Last August Obama pledged that “seeing movement on the chemical weapons front, or the use of chemical weapons” by Assad would mean the Syrian dictator had crossed a “red line” and would trigger a U.S. response. But what kind of response? Our officials and the administration is making significant errors on every Muslims world issue. Why? How?

Myopic fixation on their image as the liberal radical who is standing against “The Man” has kept them from seeing and facing the complicated realities in the Muslim world. They have been desperate to say that the bad guys in the Muslim world are al-Qaeda and little else; further, they say we’ve nearly got those bad guys whipped. Wrong on both counts. The liberal political and media elites are philosophically and dispositionally inclined to dislike those leaders in the Arab world that conservative American administrations worked with and whom they see as the establishment. This often pushes them to being overly sympathetic to the worst of the worst as long as these are the (in their view) anti-establishment. The result is that they tend to paint those groups and individuals in much too nice of colors if they are outsiders.

Of course I am being simplistic here, but it is a real issue and one that they keep getting wrong. Mr. President, Sir. You are the very center of the establishment now. You are the establishment. You are “The Man.” Face facts and get past the adolescent desire to “burn in all down.” The anti-establishment groups you tend to like are often morally bankrupt and even more despicable than the tyrants who have been in power.

We must find the moral center of our message and our mission. Simple slogans like “supporting democracy” are meaningless. What is the core of our moral message to the Muslim world? What is the mission we will struggle for? Why will we struggle for this? How does it further our nation’s best interests? How does it promote what is actually good? These questions cannot be left unanswered. This administration has lost its message to the Middle East, simple because it has not clarified its moral center. Not more theater and optics, more reflection, honesty, and communication of a message based on a moral reality are what is needed. 

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Needed in the Middle East:
A Message and Mission for the United States

by Darrell W. Pack

The U.S. State Department now claims that forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad have recently used chemical weapons. The information comes via the U.S. consul in Istanbul and based on interviews with doctors, Syrian defectors from the Syrian Army, and activists, who together make a compelling case that the Syrian military had used Agent 15, or BZ gas, in Homs last month against the Sunni-majority opposition. Then again the State Department challenges the report and conclusion, stating that it “found no credible evidence to corroborate or to confirm that chemical weapons were used.” Is anyone getting confused here?

Last August Obama pledged that “seeing movement on the chemical weapons front, or the use of chemical weapons” by Assad would mean the Syrian dictator had crossed a “red line” and would trigger a U.S. response. But what kind of response? Our officials and the administration is making significant errors on every Muslims world issue. Why? How?

Myopic fixation on their image as the liberal radical who is standing against “The Man” has kept them from seeing and facing the complicated realities in the Muslim world. They have been desperate to say that the bad guys in the Muslim world are al-Qaeda and little else; further, they say we’ve nearly got those bad guys whipped. Wrong on both counts. The liberal political and media elites are philosophically and dispositionally inclined to dislike those leaders in the Arab world that conservative American administrations worked with and whom they see as the establishment. This often pushes them to being overly sympathetic to the worst of the worst as long as these are the (in their view) anti-establishment. The result is that they tend to paint those groups and individuals in much too nice of colors if they are outsiders.

Of course I am being simplistic here, but it is a real issue and one that they keep getting wrong. Mr. President, Sir. You are the very center of the establishment now. You are the establishment. You are “The Man.” Face facts and get past the adolescent desire to “burn in all down.” The anti-establishment groups you tend to like are often morally bankrupt and even more despicable than the tyrants who have been in power.

We must find the moral center of our message and our mission. Simple slogans like “supporting democracy” are meaningless. What is the core of our moral message to the Muslim world? What is the mission we will struggle for? Why will we struggle for this? How does it further our nation’s best interests? How does it promote what is actually good? These questions cannot be left unanswered. This administration has lost its message to the Middle East, simple because it has not clarified its moral center. Not more theater and optics, more reflection, honesty, and communication of a message based on a moral reality are what is needed. 

Rebranding Violence, Repression, and Death: the My Jihad Movement
by Darrell W. Pack


Not all of you will remember when Seven-Up soft drink advertised itself a the "Uncola" with a cool bald guy that had a cool Jamacan-style accent. It was a great branding move. Many of us thought about that soft drink in a new light. Recently, a group of Muslims who are concerned with the image of their religion have decided to try one of history's most challenging re-branding efforts. In this case I don't think that a cool accept will be enough because they are trying to re-brand Jihad.

The MyJihad effort (www.myjihad.org) is an effort to wrest from the hands of extremist Ideological Muslims the term "jihad". They also wish to preemptively strike--rhetorically, of course--at the so-called Western extremists who decry Jihad as an evil. In the writings of so-called or extremists, Western or Muslim, Jihad is a call to violence and armed struggle against Allah's enemies. It speaks of terror and oppression. But in the context of MyJihad the term becomes the kinder and gentler face of jihad. He is part of the MyJihad website description of the word and concept of Jihad.

Jihad is a central tenet of the Islamic creed which means “struggling in the way of God“. The way of God, being goodness, justice, passion, compassion, etc (not forcible conversion as wrongly claimed by some).

As Muslims, we are taught to put forth a concerted and noble effort against injustice, hate, misunderstanding, war, violence, poverty, hunger, abuse or whatever challenge big or small we face in daily life, with the purpose of getting to  a better place.

Jihad is a personal commitment to service, patience, determination, and taking the higher road, as such, it tasks us with confronting our own weaknesses, vices, and shortcomings; it is about taking personal responsibility.

Can I just say, "awesome!" I so hope that this works. It would be great for planet earth if every Muslim embraced this excellent vision of jihad. It would make Muslims great citizens and neighbors and friends. But of course there is a real challenge here. Namely, those mean Muslims who kill and blow stuff up for Allah and his prophet claim to know the true meaning of Jihad and would see this as a watering down of a holy tenet of their faith. In fact, they are so sure of this that some of them would blow up our intrepid re-branders and their chic Modbook Pro Tablets.

For the next number of posts I will present the basis in the Quran and the life and Traditions of Muhammad the prophet of Islam (hadith) of the violent jihadist. A nice, shiny and pleasant re-branded Jihad carries with it an inherent danger: it can lessen our vigilance in opposing Jihad. In that way it can turn into something like re-branded Nazism. Nicely dressed, well-spoken, clean-cut little Aryan boys wearing little swastikas still represent a truly dangerous movement even if they are only picking up garbage in a public park to serve their community. Nice MyJihad can become just a cover for the growth of Mean TheirJihad.

Unwittingly at War

WAGING PEACE PROJECT

Helping Christians to Love Muslims and Oppose Islam

Unwittingly at War: and a Pursuit of Peace
by Darrell W. Pack

Let's face some important facts:

• A vastly overwhelming number of Muslims are good neighbors, friends and citizens and represent no danger to you or anyone you know.
• Few Christians take the time or make the effort to interact with Muslims. (Too bad!)
• Islam is a religion capable of inspiring great human social and ethical progress.
• Islam is also an ideological platform capable of inspiring terrible, systemic violence.
• Followers of ideological Islam have declared war on Western civilization, Israel, and Judeo-Christian values.
• Some followers of ideological Islam believe that they can best pursue their objective of defeating the West by building within western nations an increasingly powerful presence for Islam and waiting for an opportunity to take over in a kind of bloodless cultural coup.
• Some followers of ideological Islam believe that only violence can get them to the place where they can overcome the West.

So What's this Waging Peace Project Blog About?

     Sometimes I will be informing the readers about Islam, the Quran, and Muslims. Sometimes I will be dealing with relevant news issues concerning the Middle East, Islam, Israel and how it impacts us here and now. Sometimes I will be looking at Biblical prophecy. But no matter what the given topic for the day, the two-fold objective will remain: 

1. I want to equip Christians to lovingly pursue peace with Muslims, and
2. I want to equip Americans who love their nation to oppose the ideology of Islam.

Imagine

     What if every church and each Christian in America made a simple decision to actively love Muslims in their communities? What if they committed to engage in simple but real acts of friendship and hospitality? What if they communicated care for Christ's sake to as many Muslims as they could? How powerfully would this affect Muslims?

     I know some of you are thinking right now, "But they're bad and scary."

     Some are. The vast majority are not.

     But either way, Christians are called to love our enemies. That is Christ's command. Our best weapon is love. Love cannot just be a concept, it must be lived out. This blog will give you the real-world help you need to engage in this aspect of spiritual warfare. Imagine if millions of Christians around the nation committed to know, care for, and love Muslims in their neighborhoods. That's waging peace.

Imagine

     What if Americans--Christian, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, Muslims and all others--recognized the real danger that ideological (Jihadi) Islam represents to our freedoms and to the future of our nation and chose to oppose all legal, social, and religious efforts to make a place for such an ideology of hatred and oppression. That is waging peace as well. 

     Friend, had millions of "normal" Germans saw the ideology of Nazism for the dangerous lie that it truly was and opposed it legally and socially with truth accurately presented, how much evil would have been averted? We wage peace with both love and truth. A stealth jihad against the West must be opposed, not because we do not care for and accept Muslims, but because we cannot allow Islamic sharia' law to supplant the U.S. constitution. To fail to oppose the ideology of Islam is to invite Islamic oppression of women, gays, Jews, Christians and, in fact, all non-Muslims. 

Imagine

     We chose not to get informed (You really should read this blog regularly and pass it on) and we chose not to engage. Maybe we should all just recall the famous quote for Rev. Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a prominent Protestant pastor and outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler. He spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps, He said:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- 

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- 

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

One way you can get directly involved is to host a free, live or an internet Waging Peace Seminar. Just send me a note using the address below. God bless you. Darrell W. Pack

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