The Last Crusade

by Ira Tabankin

  “Our people, the holy Mujahedeen are destroying Europe and America from the inside, just like a cancer killing them from within. The faithful in Central Europe and Southern Russia will rise up and begin burning the Minor Satan’s cities. We will kill them from the inside like a malignant cancer which can’t be operated on. Europe and America are too weak to stop us; their media is in our pockets. They won’t publish our people’s actions, they’ll say the police over respond and discriminate against our people. By the time their media figures out what’s really going on, it will be over. City by city our people are taking positions within their leadership. Even if their media wakes up, it will be too late. Look at Michigan, we control 35% of their cities and towns. There are cities where the street signs have already been changed over to Arabic, store names have been changed, we’ve given infidels sixty days to leave town. Every day, we grow stronger while the West grows weaker.”

  “I’ve sent special forces troops to Europe to carry out attacks, they will be dressed as members the far right, Europe’s media will blame the right for the violence, we’ll gain sympathy and support.”

  “Excellent, expand this program so that similar attacks take place in every one of their cities. I want to see their cities burning, their people begging for help against the right. Remind your holy warriors that Allah has given them the approval to shave their beards and heads. They are carrying out Allah’s will.”

  “I’ll remind them again.”

  “What about the Russians? They haven’t turned around. They are moving into Afghanistan; they must be stopped.”

  “Nothing we throw at their new tanks seems to slow them down. We’ve tried mass RPG attacks, we were surprised to learn they have copied the Jew’s anti-missile system, they have a new weapon which is similar to a giant shotgun, they cut our massed people down like wheat under the sickle. They don’t care about the number of civilians they kill.”

  “While the West is very sensitive to killing civilians, the Russians seem to enjoy it. They record the killing of our civilians which they show on their networks, their people enjoy seeing the Russian military torture and kill us. The more of us they kill, the more popular their infidel President becomes. We have to strike back in enough strength that their people fear us. What else have you tried to stop their advance?”

  “Your Holiness, we’ve blown bridges, dug wide trenches, laid land mines, massed RPG attacks, we’ve lined up people to block their route, they smiled and drove over our people, crushing the life from them.”

  “I want you to plan an attack against St. Petersburg. They enjoy watching the faithful die, let’s see how much they enjoy watching their own people die horrible deaths. Let’s see how they enjoy watching their beloved buildings turn to dust. We’ll build new mosques on the foundations left behind by their churches.”

  “Yes, sir I’ll get our planning group on it. I assume you want St. Petersburg destroyed as soon as possible?”

  “Yes, of course.”

  The Caliphate attack across the Egyptian border failed. Their tanks were attacked fifteen miles inside the Caliphate by missile-equipped drones and long-range guided artillery rounds. The Caliphate tried five times to reach the border, each time the Caliphate moved forward, the shells accurately landed on the attacking tanks. The Caliphate didn’t know the Crusaders had a stealth high altitude drone flying in slow circles over their position sending video and position updates every couple of minutes to the Crusade HQ on the Egyptian side of the border. They targeted the attackers with GPS guided munitions. Both sides stare across the Egyptian border in a stalemate.

  Saladin called off the attacks when his local commanders report they are down to 25% of their original strength. The attacking tanks never got closer than 5km to the border, where the Egyptian and Jewish tanks are dug in, waiting for the Caliphate to attack.

  The attacks on St. Petersburg are foiled by the Russian secret police who capture the Caliphate agents. The FSB begins rounding up and clearing out Muslim neighborhoods in St. Petersburg and the surviving sections of Moscow. The people are packed into rail cars and taken to Siberia where they are dropped off without any winter clothing or tools, the FSB tells them,

  “Let Allah provide for you.”

  “We’ll die, it must be thirty degrees below zero, there’s no place for us to live.”

  “Build your own, since you’ve told everyone Allah protects you, let him build your cities, let him provide you with winter coats and boots. Spend all your time praying to Allah. Terrorize each other here, leave the rest of the Motherland alone.”

  “We’ll die here.”

  “If that’s Allah’s will, so be it. Our hands aren’t going to be bloodied.”

  “It’s murder!”

  The FSB agents laugh as they settle in their heated sleeping cars for the long trip back to St. Petersburg where they’ll pick up another trainload of Muslims. They know by the time they return this group will be dead from exposure. An FSB clean up squad will collect the bodies, burning them and spreading the ashes while they wait for the next train, a new one arrives every five days. Each train drops off six to seven thousand Muslims onto the frozen windswept ground. The Muslims usually last less than twenty-four hours before they die from exposure.

  The FSB uses Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ against the Muslims, they aren’t sent to concentration camps, they aren’t gassed, they aren’t worked to death. The Muslims are left in the subzero frozen north to die. Their homes and shops are given to working Russians who thank their government for the new housing. The FSM keeps a small base at the train station, their only tasks are to make sure none of the Muslims reboard the trains and drive the bulldozers which push the frozen bodies into piles, cover them in fuel and set them on fire.

  Meanwhile in America, the election had organized as a national primary and run off before the right wing candidate, Robert Bentley, the Governor of Alabama survived the state primaries, the national primary and national election to become the 46th President of the United States.

  After three months of living on bread and water the Cardinals elect Angelo Amato of Italy as the new Pope, he takes the name, Pope Joseph, his first official act is to declare there will be another crusade to avenge the death of Pope Francis II.

  Chapter 11

  Muslims in America increase their attacks against the country’s infrastructure. They demand special rights and laws to protect them from persecution and attacks of revenge. The media supports them, the average American hates them.

  Six months after the Crusader’s retreat, the Caliphate declares a worldwide day of celebration, a day to give thanks to Allah. Eastern Tennessee celebrates the Day of Victory with tens of thousands of Muslims bussed in from cities two hundred miles from Knoxville. They gather, twenty thousand strong marching east on Kingston Pike. The close the major shopping street in West Knoxville. Traffic is backed up for ten miles. The crowd’s goal is the center of Knoxville where they plan to hold a rally at the World’s Fair Park. The local police have been ordered by the temporary head of the Federal Department of Homeland Security to allow the peaceful march while also protecting the marcher’s rights. They are ordered to block any interference with the protestors.

  Many mayors have blocked their police departments from interfering with the Muslim riots when the media asks them why they respond,

  “We have a duty to protect the first amendment rights of all of our citizens. They are only expressing their first amendment rights.

  Store owners whose businesses are blocked by the protest march are angry, they begin throwing eggs and rotten vegetables at the marchers. When a small group throws bacon, the marchers run to punish the bacon throwers. The marchers grab four people from those on the sidelines, they’re beaten senseless. No one knows if the four beaten are the ones who threw the bacon. As the march passes the West Side Mall, a shot is heard. No one knows where the shot came from. One of the leaders of the march holding the Caliphate’s flag falls dead. The bullet
struck him dead center between his eyes, he was dead before his body touched the ground. The shot opens hell’s gates.

  The marchers grab people on the sidelines, beating them to death, In retaliation for their dead leader. Others break store windows, some others can throw Molotov Cocktails into the stores. Two blocks of Kingston Pike are set on fire. The State Police building across from the mall on Kingston Pike is ringed with armed troopers. The marchers begin shooting the police officers, a running gun battle breaks out along the street and expands to Interstate 40, which is only a couple of hundred yards from Kingston Pike. The marchers run along Interstate 40 shooting into trucks and cars. Huge wrecks close both sides of the Interstate, which blocks traffic moving East and West across Tennessee.

  While some of the marchers are shooting up Interstate 40 and others are fighting the police around the Mall, two thousand rush into the residential area of Kingston Pike, where there are many churches and two Jewish Temples; Kingston Pike leads into downtown Knoxville and the University of Tennessee.

  The churches and temples aren’t prepared for the attacks; all are set on fire. The Fire Department isn’t able to reach the fires due to the rioters and every church and temple is burned to the ground. Some of the left-wing students at UT cheer the unruly crowd and try to join the marchers. They’re told only those who believe in Allah may join, others will be killed. The marchers quickly reach fraternity and sorority row. The young men in fraternities are killed when their homes are set on fire, the sorority girls are raped before their homes are torched. Smoke covers most of downtown Knoxville. The police quickly find themselves outmanned and outgunned. Their call for help is answered by armed citizens and three local militias who take up arms against the rioting Muslims.

  Running gun battles break out along Kingston Pike. Thousands are wounded, hundreds killed, bodies are left on the road where they fall. Civilians are often caught between the two groups shooting at each other. As the battle rages, additional armed civilians race to the sound of the guns. The Marines drive armed HUMVEES and LAVs North to enter the battle. Alcoa Highway is jammed with people trying to get away from and others running to battles. The HUMVEES drive ahead of the LAVS trying to clear the road so the LAVS can bring their heavy machine guns and auto grenade launchers to bear on the Muslims.

  The marchers surprise the Marines and armed civilians when they fire RPGS at the LAVs. Only a few of the LAVs are still fitted with anti-RPG mesh from the Middle East war. Most have had the mesh removed allowing the RPGs to be very deadly to the Marines inside the lightly armored vehicles.

  The battle rages for two hours before the citizens and military claim victory. Muslims are forced to sit with their hands zip-tied behind their backs in rows, the dead are left on the road. Ambulances and EMS take the wounded to the many local hospitals. The UT Medical Center, which is less than two miles away quickly fills up with the wounded. A handful of wounded Muslims try attacking guards at the UT Medical Center, they are quickly shot by armed guards. Some of the medical staff refuse to work on the Muslims, who scream the doctors and nurses are racists. Some of those who do treat them do so without giving them any pain medication.

  The news of the battle in Knoxville quickly spreads around the world. The Mahdi smiles, silently giving thanks to Allah for the faithful. The West vows revenge against the Caliphate. Pope Joseph announces he wants another Crusade, one he promises will be the Last Crusade, one that won’t leave a single Muslim alive so they can’t restart the killing of innocents again. Newly elected President Bentley asks the Pope for a personal meeting. The Pope, who is in Switzerland, agrees to the meeting. Bentley says he’ll visit the Pope since America’s new capital is still being built in the location of her first capital, Philadelphia.

  The new capital is being built in the poorest area of the city, giving new jobs to millions, while also making them homeless. President Bentley promises that new apartments will be built as part of the construction of the new capital. In the interim, workers are based in the old Army barracks at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The construction crews work twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Buses run every five minutes carrying workers to and from Fort Dix. The new capital quickly rises; it's like watching a time-lapse movie. A new White House and Capital are built with deep shelters under them in case nuclear weapons again strike the country.

  One of President Bentley’s first moves is to order every city to begin construction of municipal shelters for the city’s people. The shelters are to be stocked with food, water, and first aid supplies. Some cities decide to use their existing subway lines; they build blast doors to close the underground railways. Supplies are stocked in newly built and securely locked supply rooms. Cities without subways decide to use tunnels while others are left trying to figure out how to house people either above or underground in hardened shelters. Due to all of the construction work, rebuilding, building a national security force and rebuilding the military and the military equipment, everyone who wants to work can easily find a job. Billboards advertise for workers.

  President Bentley’s second series of Executive Orders is to make the country energy independent within eighteen months. He goes on national television to say,

  “My fellow Americans, there’s no reason why we should be funding our enemies. There’s no reason why we should be paying a ransom tax for the right to buy oil from the Caliphate, who uses our own money to fund terror and a military to fight us. We have all of the oil we need under our own soil and water. I want all of us to work together to stop the Caliphate from having anything to use against us. If we’re energy independent, we can’t be blackmailed into supporting evil. The Caliphate wants us either dead or become followers of Allah. They want every religion other religion extinct and every infidel killed. I say, NO! I say they are malevolent, they are followers of Satan. I say we join with the Pope to end the threat of Islam forever. How many more times can they kill millions of us and get away with it?

  We made many mistakes in our last attempt to conquer the Caliphate. We underestimated their strength and the level of their evil. We didn’t expect them to arm all of their people, turning them into an Army. I know many of you are tired of endless war, you’re tired of the talk of the evil of the Caliphate. I know many of you just want to be left alone to live your lives and raise your families. To those of you who believe this way, remember Knoxville. Remember the thousands of innocents who died in Knoxville, their only crime being they weren’t Muslims. A long time ago Pearl Harbor was a rallying cry, today I say, remember Knoxville. Remember the slaughter of the innocents, remember them even trying to kill the medical staff working to save them.

  The Caliphate won’t rest until we’ve all converted or we’re all dead. I refuse to convert, I believe in the Lord and his son Jesus. I believe in the Bible. I believe every American should be able to pray how they like without outside interference. I’ve tried to hold peace talks with the Mahdi, he said he has one condition for peace talks; that we all convert to Islam. I’ve told him I’ll see him in hell.

  I refuse to submit to their evil God who I believe is really Satan. I’m tired of them attacking us at their leisure. I’m tired of them claiming they require special rules and protection of the government. I’m sick of them getting special rights in the workforce. I’m sick of them trying to tell me and all of us how to live. I say enough is enough. I say it’s they who should learn how to live in peace with the rest of the world.

  Are you with me? Do you share my beliefs? Do you share my desire for freedom? Do you share my desire to wipe out the evil so we can live in peace?”

  Let me know as soon as you can at #freedom. Thank you and may God bless the United States of America.”

  Even with the scars from the nuclear weapons and thousands of riots very fresh in their memory, America supports their new President. He reminds the people,

  “Remember, don’t trust everything the media tells you, they’ve been lying to you for years, they have their own agenda. The
ir agenda doesn’t match most of ours. They want to see America turned into a socialist country that supports the Caliphate. They refuse to see the evil the Caliphate represents. Join me in ensuring the Caliphate doesn’t win the final battle which will bring death and enslavement across the world. The ultimate war on women and homosexuals is committed by the Caliphate, who enslave women. Women in the Caliphate have no rights, they can’t drive, they can’t work, they can’t leave their homes alone. They have to be covered from head to toe. If a woman is raped, she needs to have four men testify for her. In the Caliphate, a woman’s vote is equal to one-quarter of a man’s vote. No matter what feminists say, things were never this bad in Europe and here in America. The Caliphate doesn’t allow religious freedom. Every day the Caliphate grows stronger, if we’re going to defeat them, we need to act quickly. We need to replace the weapons we lost in our previous attempt to defeat the Caliphate, we need to attack them with overwhelming force. Mercy can’t be in our vocabulary. To give into them now will mean they will continue to build their military strength until they can’t be defeated. I know the media and many of you think we should find a way to coexist with the Caliphate. No one wants another war, least of all me. I lost my two sons in the last Crusade. I have this last comment; how does anyone coexist peacefully with people who want to kill us?”