Jihada: The Lost Scriptures Page 8

  The lessons of a static war were learned. World War Two was brought about by fascism, and the rise to power of a megalomaniac dictator. Weapons that were years in their design and planning helped armies to move miles in one day. Air power, mechanized armor and fast moving infantry overwhelmed defenses. Rocket technology was employed, which in turn gave rise to modern day missiles; these missiles were still the most effective weapons delivery system; Former President Reagan’s Star Wars program had created a nationwide missile interception type defensive shield against these rockets. America was now invulnerable.

  World War Three did not happen. Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) took care of that: there was little point in destroying the Communist powers of China and Russia, if to do so would result in the total destruction of the planet. Radiation would have rendered the planet uninhabitable for thousands of years. Modern nuclear weapons however now made a nuclear war possible; there would be no radiation – no radioactive fallout. Modern nuclear weapons were clean, and could deliver a neutron blast force many thousands of time greater than the first atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima over a century before. It was now possible to win a nuclear war. America would walk away unscathed; her defensive shield would keep her safe from all forms of attack.

  Then came 9/11. Islamic militants, in a well planned attack, smashed fully laden planes into both of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. A new kind of warfare was about to sweep the world: a war of terror.

  The defensive shield that wrapped itself around America was suddenly redundant. The warring army was already on home soil: it did not wear military clothing, nor did it carry visible weapons; its hidden weapon was a simple explosive carried around the body, an explosive wrapped in nails and ball bearings.

  An explosive that delivered a thousand ‘bullets’ in all directions in the blink of an eye.

  After the 9/11 attacks, the Islamic army turned its attention to Europe. Tube trains were exploded in London-England and Madrid- Spain, killing hundreds, and soon the population of Europe began to turn on all things Muslim. There was simply no reason for the terror attack; these people lived good lives and were fully integrated into Western society, yet as they became more and more radicalized, their one and only desire in life was to die for Islam; to move to Paradise; to be with Allah.

  Idealistic young men were promised eternal life, eternal youth, and 72 beautiful young virgins on entering Paradise; in return, they only had to slap on a suicide vest and press a switch. The more Infidels that they killed the higher would be their status in Paradise.

  Islam within itself was torn apart by strife. When not killing Infidels, Muslims killed Muslims. The Sunni version of Islam differed only slightly from the Shia version; this was enough for the two separate branches to try and eliminate each other. The rest of the world looked on in astonishment as war after war erupted in the Middle East, punctuated by terror attacks on all other forms of religion; usually in the Western world or in Israel. Occasionally, terror attacks erupted in the Far East; hundreds of young party goers were destroyed by Islamic bombs in Bali - Indonesia, and a continuous bombing campaign was still underway in Southern Thailand, where Muslim extremists wanted the Thai Buddhist states to revert to Islamic Sharia law.

  All Islamic countries now embraced Sharia law, a medieval, and in many cases barbaric form of justice. The world had moved forwards; the Islamic world had moved backwards by several centuries.

  Girls were no longer allowed in schools; it was forbidden for them to receive any form of education; they had to be covered from head to toe in the black Muslim Burka at all times when venturing outside of their homes. No part of a female body other than the eyes was to be seen by either boy or man but their husband. It was accepted in Muslim society that women had to be frequently beaten for even the slightest misdemeanor as was perceived by their husbands.

  Rape victims were to be stoned to death; all rapes were deemed to be brought on by the provocative behavior of the woman, even if a female child hadn’t yet reached puberty. Rape, even by a child’s uncle, was a guaranteed death sentence for the child if she became pregnant.

  A century of unrestricted immigration had led to the relocation of millions of Muslims into the Western world: hundreds of Mosques now littered European, American and Australian towns and cities. Political parties recognized that to stand any chance of being voted into power, they had to embrace and capture the Muslim vote; Britain alone now had almost 10 million Muslims: together with the rest of Europe, the total was now approaching 50 million.

  At all times, despite the will of the indigenous populations, politicians caved in to the demands of the Muslim population; votes meant power; power, as always eventually led to money. Ideals were, as always, less important than personal enhancement and the accumulation of wealth.

  Politicians had never changed their spots since time began.

  Over the course of the 21st century, Islamic militancy scaled new heights in the Western world. The indigenous population, the Infidel, now became a passport to Islamic paradise. Muslim school children were taught that the path to true glory; to martyrdom, was the sacrifice of their lives for Allah. Christian children wanted to be film stars or footballers: Muslim children wanted to be suicide bombers; mothers and fathers both encouraged and embraced these ideals; the militant Mullahs at the mosques helped them to become reality.

  The more violent the death of the Infidel, the happier Allah would become. Old men and women on their way to church were hacked down and beheaded. Churches with full congregations at weddings and funerals were blown up, often using several coordinated explosions and multiple suicide bombers, many of these bombers being pre pubescent children. Western morality had no place or bearing in the pursuit of Paradise and the guarantee of being with Allah.

  The Western civilizations grew to fear Islam and soon the expected backlash began to take place.

  The people of the Western world feared death at the hands of the Muslims, – the Muslims wanted death, and the more Infidels they killed, the higher would be their status in Paradise.

  Allahu Akbar.

  The stakes were raised when news of the birth of the JIHADA reached the ears of Muslims worldwide; individual acts of terrorism were no longer enough if world domination was to be achieved; whole cities were to become the targets. It mattered not in the slightest that these cities often contained significant numbers of Muslims, each death guaranteed a place in paradise: death was a small price to pay for the love of Allah.

  Nuclear weapons were now “clean”. There was no radioactive fallout; they were also out of reach of the terrorists. Muslim countries dare not supply the terrorists, or reprisal, leading to total destruction was guaranteed. America had given this pledge to the world.

  It was already known that terrorist organizations had nuclear material in their possession, and that soon, a “dirty” bomb would inevitably be unleashed on the world. Countries were now in a dilemma; were they appease the terrorist, or should they clamp down on all things relating to Islam? Each country chose its’ own path. Britain, France and Italy chose to meet the problem head on with a vast network of undercover agents who were trained to infiltrate and in many cases destroy the terrorist’s infrastructure; the rest of Europe chose appeasement; this was to prove to be a grave mistake.

  There was a small explosion in a wood in Bavaria - Germany, with no casualties. Initially little attention was paid until people in the surrounding villages began to be taken ill. Radiation poisoning was diagnosed: the first of many “dirty” bombs had been exploded. These bombs were almost childlike in their simplicity, and consisted of no more than a quantity of high explosives mixed with the correct grade of uranium or plutonium. The invisible radioactive fallout travelled with the wind, contaminating land and killing people slowly and painfully where ever it made contact: Thousands of acres were to be uninhabitable for generations to come. The world recognized that appeasement was no guarantee of safety, deadly force in all its many forms wa
s the only answer.

  The world’s intelligence agencies now realized that all perceived territorial border or ideological conflicts were insignificant in comparison to the threat posed by Islam; at a stroke, suspicion and nationalism were cast aside, and the western world became one gigantic coordinated intelligence agency.

  Vast quantities of radioactive material were seized, and for the first time in decades, torture again became acceptable in western society. The liberal and human rights activist disappeared from view the day the second “dirty” bomb exploded in St Peter’s square within a few yards of the Vatican as the Pope was conducting mass for thousands of pilgrims; Rome, the Eternal City, became the Forbidden City. People now realized that their own personal safety was far more valuable than their well intentioned ideals. If the only way to extract information from the terrorist was to torture them, then for the sake of their children and their grandchildren; so be it.

  With the capture of their nuclear materials, the terrorist again reverted to type, and using children as their weapon of choice, returned to an even more destructive form of suicide bombing; their targets now being infidel children; their own children’s classmates. Britain was the initial target, and with 10 million Muslims living in the relatively small island, one in every seven people was a potential assassin, and six people out of every seven were legitimate targets. After the first few classroom bombs, parents understandably withdrew their children from schools all over the country; only “faith” schools remaining open – Muslim “faith” schools.

  In these privately funded schools, there was no longer any emphasis on education; the entire day being devoted to Allah, the recital and teachings of the Quran, and the merit of self sacrifice. Each child must be prepared to sacrifice his or her life for Allah and become a suicide bomber. Their young and easily manipulated minds bought into these ideals with religious fervor and excitement; their own parents equally excited that their child would one day be guaranteed a place in Paradise and would soon be with Allah.

  The success of this form of terrorism became known throughout the Muslim communities of the western world, and spread as quickly as did the word. The intelligence agencies were swamped and completely overwhelmed; gathering intelligence on millions of people in each of the western countries was an impossible task, and to compound the problem, since the birth of the JIHADA, the agencies no longer had inside help; their own undercover employees were now deeply into Islamic fundamentalism: there appeared to be a mass hypnotic brain washing of the Muslim masses.

  Intelligence was now useless; the services were no longer monitoring a few hundred fundamentalist, there were now potentially three billion of them, one third of them children.

  The JIHADA was beginning to make his move.

  The Prophesy of the LOST SCRIPTURES must be fulfilled.

  CHAPTER 12

  The Fatwa

  Sir James McNaught awoke with a start as the Mercedes pulled up by a small country cottage and Michael relaxed his hold on his inner mind. Slowly, his senses began to return, as did his memory. He looked around the car and his thoughts flashed back to the Aspin club and the explosion; he saw the head of the Arab man suspended in mid air. He remembered the expression of frozen horror on the face of Sir Rupert as Michael and his companion had led him away from the club. Why hadn’t he tried to save poor Rupert, their friendship went back many years?

  How could he ever explain the nightmare sequence of events to Mary; she more than most people dismissed all likely hood of the existence of magic: ‘you are simply very good at what you do dear’, was all she ever said; McNaught wanted to believe her, but sometimes – sometimes-.

  He glanced at the driver, and then at Michael.

  ‘Abdul is in the hospital Sir James’, Michael read his mind, and spoke without speaking, ‘he was losing too much blood and would have died if we hadn’t taken him. We are in the Cotswolds; we are also in much danger’.

  McNaught looked directly into Michael’s eyes as he spoke. ‘ Michael, I have spent the last 50 odd years communicating by word of mouth, I would like to continue doing so if you would be so kind, I do not feel comfortable talking without talking’.

  ‘Certainly Sir James, I think that Achmed would also feel more comfortable that way’.

  Achmed, still with both hands on the steering wheel, grinned as he nodded his head violently.

  ‘Why are we in the Cotswolds Michael, when I specifically told you to take me back to my London home, and why are we in danger? Who is trying to kill you, and why the hell am I involved’?

  ‘If we go inside the cottage Sir James, I will explain everything. Achmed, can you please switch on the shield and join us inside’.

  ‘Shield’?

  ‘Yes Sir James, it is no more than a simple electrical device that I created that surrounds the car and the cottage in a magnetic field; - without it, my brother will sooner or later ‘feel’ where we are; his powers are far more advanced than mine are’.

  ‘Can he also stop time Michael’? McNaught was intrigued, his head and mind still unable to take in the events of the day; he was also still a little groggy, the hypnotic battle that he had fought with Michael seemed to have drained away much of his mental energy.

  ‘He can not only stop time Sir James, he can reverse it’

  ‘Bloody impossible’.

  Michael smiled, realizing that McNaught had reached the end point of acceptable credibility for the moment, his brain was already overloaded; there was simply nothing else that it could absorb.

  Inside the cottage, Sir James McNaught listened with increasing incredulity as Michael spoke. He told him about his parents, the time his mother had spent in the Egyptian hospital, and of how she had emerged pregnant. He told him of how she had again fallen ill while back at home, and of how she was discovered to be carrying twins shortly after leaving hospital. He told him of how the preacher had smuggled him secretly to England, and of how the entire Muslim race had been looking for him since word of his miracle birth at the log cabin in the Catskill Mountains had been made public. Allah was not pleased; the Christian God had interfered.

  Years of performing ‘Magic’ on stage, often before Presidents, Dictators, even Kings and Queens had nowhere near prepared McNaught for the revelation that real magic actually did exist.

  ‘You have the power yourself Sir James’. Michael had told him. ‘Why do you think that you were chosen? I know of only two other people in the world with your telepathic powers; one is my brother, and the other one you will be meeting shortly; his name is Theodore Warburton, and he will be taking us to America’. Michael laughed out loud for the first time in many hours, he had read McNaught’s mind. ‘Yes Sir James, you have been able to perform magic for many years, why do you think that you are the world’s greatest magician; When I enlisted Sir Rupert to bring you to the club, I knew all about your powers’.

  ‘No way Michael’, McNaught shook his head slowly, a big grin appearing on his bearded face, ‘I am easily flattered, in fact I positively adore it, but you will never convince me that I was anything other than an Illusionist: Maybe what I think I have just seen did not really happen; I am already aware of your hypnotic powers; what if they extend to planting an idea of a presumed event in my head, what if—

  ‘Is your ear still hurting Sir James’?

  McNaught raised his hand and felt his blood encrusted ear, he also felt the sliver of glass that had caused it, and gingerly removed it. Michael smiled and passed on a thought.

  ‘Why do you think that you appeared to read people’s minds on stage Sir James? Michael again read McNaught’s mind and continued, ‘that sir, is not 100% correct, it was not just body language and mannerisms; you WERE actually reading their minds; you would simply not allow yourself to believe it. When you performed at the White house 4 years ago, Theodore communicated with you; he told me you were so shocked that you lost all concentration and the trick went wrong, that is how we discovered your powers ’.

 
‘I bloody well remember it well Michael, it can be pretty frightening performing for the President and the First Lady at such close quarters at the best of times, you certainly don’t want someone talking in your ear, especially someone that you can’t see. I honestly thought that I was going mad. After what has been happening recently, I am bloody well sure now that I am going completely nuts’.

  ‘Well Sir James’, Michael laughed, ‘what I am going to tell you now will probably send you right over the edge. There are somewhere in the region of 10 million people that are currently looking for you with a view to killing you; that is just in the UK; there are a further 3 billion throughout the world with a similar mission. – There has been a worldwide death Fatwa placed on both our heads; I have had to deal with it for 16 years’.

  ‘Why me Michael, if I do have any powers at all other than perception and observation, how the hell would anyone know’?

  ‘My brother would know, he would ‘feel’ them, and the moment that you and I came into contact with each other, he would be aware of them; he would also be aware that you may present a threat’.

  ‘How could I possibly present a threat to someone with the kind of powers that you describe him as having’? McNaught held his right arm out, the palm facing upwards in a questioning gesture.