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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Nicholas G. Hahn III</title>
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		<title>Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Evangelist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas G. Hahn III]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the terror mastermind's prison manifesto tells us about Islam's God problem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed_after_capture.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217207" alt="Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed_after_capture" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Khalid_Shaikh_Mohammed_after_capture-450x343.jpg" width="252" height="192" /></a>The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks might have a bone to pick with Secretary of State John Kerry. After meeting with his counterpart in the Vatican last week, Kerry <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/01/219654.htm" target="_blank">reported</a> that the United States and Holy See have a &#8220;common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Back home, <i>The Huffington Post</i> published a 36-page &#8220;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-manifesto_n_4591298.html" target="_blank">manifesto</a>&#8221; which begs to differ. In October 2013, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed typed it on a Guantanamo Bay prison laptop. It’s purpose? To convert his captors &#8212; and us. &#8220;It is my religious duty in dealing with any non-Muslims,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;to invite them to embrace Islam.&#8221;</p>
<p>What follows is hardly an invitation, rather a shaming. KSM, as he is known in intelligence circles, is convinced that &#8220;under the power and authority of the secularist governments, the fire of atheism is spreading among the Western communities.&#8221; Where you find &#8220;democracy, freedom, money, and liberalism,” he writes, you&#8217;ll also discover &#8220;unbelievable numbers in divorce, suicides, mental illnesses, bankruptcies, in addition to a thousand other evils.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier in his epistle to the infidels, KSM attempts to dispel the notion that he and his jihadist friends fight non-Muslims with the aim &#8220;to turn them to Islam or that we are fighting you because you practice democracy, freedom, or claim that you uphold human rights.&#8221; But just a few pages later, KSM writes &#8220;any Democratic or Republican programs are doomed to fail to bring happiness and safety for humans.” He laments we &#8220;do not accept God&#8217;s laws,” and claims any other legislation is blasphemous because we think &#8220;maybe the creature is cleverer than the Creator.&#8221;</p>
<p>KSM then launches into an all-out theological war on Christianity and the Incarnation. Jesus is just another prophet who &#8220;never declared to us in the Bible that he is a God,&#8221; nor did he speak of the Trinity, which Muslims consider polytheism. &#8220;If Jesus is God,&#8221; KSM asks, &#8220;how can I believe that God was in a woman&#8217;s womb then delivered out of her flesh?&#8221; No God of his would allow himself to be killed, either. &#8220;How can God be stoned and crucified?&#8221; KSM probes.</p>
<p>KSM is baffled by the Incarnation because Islam has a God problem. Muslims go to great lengths to protect God&#8217;s transcendence, but end up not knowing him at all.</p>
<p>Among the 99 names Muslims give Allah are &#8220;lawgiver&#8221; and &#8220;Absolute Will.&#8221; This is how Muslims relate to Allah: submission to his will. But since Allah is so transcendent and majestic, his will is not bound by the human notion of reason. &#8220;Throw reason to the dogs,&#8221; a sign adorning the office of the Taliban religious police read, &#8220;it stinks of corruption.&#8221; If God is not reasonable, he can will anything &#8212; even terrorist attacks. Here, Secretary Kerry, is your &#8220;root cause&#8221; of terrorism. Not poverty, foreign occupation, Israeli settlements, or CIA blowback, but this defective theology is what led KSM and his brothers-in-arms to fly commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center towers.</p>
<p>KSM begins his missive with several quotes, one of them from Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s infamous 2006 <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html" target="_blank">lecture</a> at the University of Regensburg: &#8220;Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.&#8221; Had KSM &#8212; or anyone else, for that matter &#8212; actually read the speech, he would have seen that these were not Benedict&#8217;s words, but those of a 14th century Byzantine emperor. The emperor was trying to convince an educated Muslim that faith and violence are incompatible because God is <i>logos</i>, the Greek word meaning reason. To act unreasonably would be against God&#8217;s nature.</p>
<p>The former pope used the emperor&#8217;s words to identify the chief theological misstep taken by jihadists where &#8220;God&#8217;s transcendence and otherness are so exalted that our reason, our sense of the true and good, are no longer an authentic mirror of God, whose deepest possibilities remain eternally unattainable and hidden behind his actual decisions.&#8221; Benedict takes jihadist theology head on: &#8220;God does not become more divine when we push him away from us,&#8221; he warns, &#8220;rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as <i>logos</i> and, as <i>logos</i>, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf.&#8221;</p>
<p>History tells of many captives who convert their captors. Most notable was Saint Paul, who was imprisoned for performing an exorcism. While behind bars and shackled to the floor, Paul prayed and sang hymns to God. Suddenly an earthquake shook the prison and cell doors swung open. Paul&#8217;s jailor rushed into Paul&#8217;s cell &#8220;trembling with fear&#8221; and asked, &#8220;what must I do to be saved?&#8221;</p>
<p>Let us pray Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has no such luck.</p>
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		<title>The Growing Russian Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nicholas G. Hahn III]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin is one step closer to more of our defense secrets.]]></description>
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<p>Russians have grown tired of their Prime Minister. Despite widespread election fraud, Vladimir Putin&#8217;s United Russia party struggled to get 50 percent support in recent parliamentary elections.</p>
<p>Yet, Putin told supporters, &#8220;we can ensure the stable development of the country with this result.&#8221;</p>
<p>He&#8217;s not going away. Neither is the growing Russian threat.</p>
<p>Twenty four years ago this month, President Ronald Reagan signed his name next to Mikhail Gorbachev&#8217;s and both eliminated intermediate nuclear and conventional missiles. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was a landmark agreement, one that satisfied Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Zero Option.&#8221;</p>
<p>Vladimir Putin is no Mikhail Gorbachev.</p>
<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s why Illinois Senator Mark Kirk is blocking President Obama&#8217;s nominee for ambassador to Russia.</p>
<p>Kirk <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/senator-blocking-obamas-pick-for-ambassador-to-russia-over-missile-defense-concerns/2011/12/02/gIQAbJDxJO_story.html">told</a> the Associated Press that he wants &#8220;written assurances that the United States will not provide Russia with any currently classified information on the missile defense system.&#8221; Kirk is especially concerned with Russia&#8217;s &#8220;record of espionage and cooperation and dialogue with Iran.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lieutenant General (Ret.) Ed Rowny knows a thing or two about Russian deception. As chief arms control adviser and negotiator for President Ronald Reagan, Rowny&#8217;s memories of the Geneva and Reykjavik summits are still vivid.</p>
<p>It was &#8220;usually the case,&#8221; Rowny recalled as he sipped a cup of coffee at his D.C. retirement home, &#8220;the secretive Soviets would never come prepared to negotiate. Rather, they would just repeat the party-line.&#8221; To the likes of Andrei Gromyko or Leonid Brezhnev, &#8220;facts were meaningless.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even today, Rowny can still feel the cold-as-ice Soviets. He remembered a time when it was his turn to &#8220;warm things up.&#8221;</p>
<p>After a long morning of &#8220;go-nowhere negotiations,&#8221; Rowny hired a boat on Lake Geneva for the American and Soviet delegations. At first, the boat was split down the middle with Americans sitting on one side and Russians, not budging, sitting on the other.</p>
<p>Rowny pulled out his harmonica and began playing a Russian nursery rhyme, which the Soviets began to hum to. They then sang to his rendition of &#8220;Moon over Moscow.&#8221; Not before long, Rowny had the Russians forming a conga-line to the tune of &#8220;We are the Communists.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I was too diplomatic to play a tune from <em>Dr. Zhivago</em>,&#8221; Rowny said of a film, based on a Russian novel, which exposed the brutality of Soviet tyranny.</p>
<p>In a speech to Moscow State University students in 1988, Ronald Reagan wasn&#8217;t so cautious. &#8220;One of the most eloquent passages on human freedom,&#8221; Reagan said, &#8220;comes, not from the literature of America, but from this country.&#8221; After quoting from <em>Dr. Zhivago</em>, Reagan went further: &#8220;freedom is more even than this. Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. &#8230; It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Ron Paul&#8217;s Misunderstanding of Modern Warfare</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outdated foreign policy matters.]]></description>
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<p>Will former Senator Rick Santorum step in to fill the sensible foreign policy vacuum left by Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s early departure from the GOP presidential race? One lively exchange in a debate before the Ames Straw Poll should give believers in advancing freedom and democracy some measure of hope.</p>
<p>It came when FOX News Sunday host Chris Wallace asked Congressman Ron Paul why he supports repealing sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran and if he supported its quest for nuclear weapons. Paul began his response by recalling the Cold War and insisted that the Soviets were a &#8220;much greater danger&#8221; because they possessed more ballistic missiles. &#8220;Why should we write people off?&#8221; Paul asked, referring to the notorious regime.</p>
<p>Santorum seemed baffled at Paul&#8217;s response. He touted his own authorship of the Iran Freedom Support Act. Paul could be seen in the corner of the screen scoffing before he suggested that the United States &#8220;mind its own business.&#8221; Santorum countered that Paul was &#8220;obviously not seeing the world very clearly.&#8221; Indeed, this retort from &#8220;Dr. No,&#8221; as Paul&#8217;s colleagues in Congress know him, suggests he sees the world as it was on September 10, 2001. Santorum was also right to play up his authorship of the act. It sets him apart from Congressman Paul, as well as the Bishops of his own Church.</p>
<p>The moment American Airlines flight 11 plunged into the North Tower, Ron Paul&#8217;s understanding of warfare became just as outdated as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops&#8217;. Despite the attacks on September 11, not much has changed since their 1983 Challenge of Peace letter which held that nuclear weapons were the greatest threat to mankind &#8212; not addressing the ideas of those who posses the weapons. A cursory review of recent statements from the USCCB on war and peace would indicate the Bishops&#8217; central concern is still nuclear disarmament.</p>
<p>Yet, as with the Bishops, Congressman Paul&#8217;s mentioning at Ames that the Islamic Republic of Iran &#8220;doesn&#8217;t even have an Air Force&#8221; crystalizes this misunderstanding of modern warfare. As the non-state actors of September 11 showed, the Islamic Republic need not have an air force when we have commercial jetliners at their disposal, which makes Santorum&#8217;s Iran Freedom Support Act all the more important.</p>
<p>The act appropriated up to $10 million for the State Department to help finance democratic organizations in the Islamic Republic. The Confederation of Iranian Students is one such organization deserving of United States support. This year, in cooperation with the Institute of World Politics, the students held a three-day Iran Democratic Transition Conference discussing the principles of the American form of government as &#8220;preparation&#8221; for the fall of the Islamic Republic regime. The conference was especially aimed at laying the groundwork for democracy in Iran.</p>
<p>The students&#8217; leader, Amir Fakhravar, was imprisoned and tortured for five years for his leadership in the July 1999 demonstrations. Fakhravar has shown an increased effort in making the Washington rounds and educating policy makers. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee in 2006, Fakhravar encouraged the United States to help the student movement: &#8220;We need means of communication within Iran and with the free world. We need cell phones, cameras, printers to print our books, fliers, and magazines, we need web pages.&#8221;</p>
<p>Following the purported elections of 2009, with the help of Facebook and Twitter, Fakhravar&#8217;s friends outside and inside Iran were able to organize a widespread, sustained demonstration throughout the country. Back in 2006, Fakhravar remembers the subcommittee&#8217;s skepticism of a revolution armed with &#8220;cameras, cell phones, and the Internet,&#8221; but as the demonstrations showed, it is quite an effective strategy. In June 2009 remarks to the Center for Security Policy, Fakhravar stressed the importance of not losing this moment: &#8220;this demonstration is much bigger,&#8221; than 1999 because, &#8220;we couldn&#8217;t talk to the world&#8230;we didn&#8217;t have any media coverage and we felt alone.&#8221;</p>
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