The Shelter: Book 1, The Beginning

by Ira Tabankin

  “President-elect Mohmand, I’m sure you know that half of the country are Christians, Jews, or nonbelievers in any religion which is why our founding fathers saw fit to ensure we never have a national religion.”

  “President Jackson, you’re familiar with the process to modify the constitution. When I was elected, my party, the Green Party, won control of the House and Senate. A bill will be passed, a bill, I’ll sign, sending the amendment to the states where my brother and sister Muslims will make sure it gets passed. President Jackson, when one has the numbers and the support of the people he represents, anything is possible. The simple truth is a higher percentage of my people vote than yours. Getting bills passed and changes to the foundation of America isn’t going to be as difficult as you may think it’s going to be.”

  “It was genius to rename your party the Green Party, many citizens thought they were voting for environmentalists. You mixed in just enough technobabble about saving the planet that many people supported your platform because they thought they were voting for people who supported clean air and water, slowing global cooling and finding alternative power sources. Frankly Mr. President-elect, you lied and deceived your way into this office.”

  Smiling an evil smile, President Mohmand grins saying, “President Jackson, every politician lies. I did nothing different than you or anyone else who got elected. By the way, we will clean the air and water. We’re going to reduce the population stress on the planet, hence we are green. I will complete the transformation the late President Obama started.”

  “I’m sure you know that the previous four administrations spent sixteen years undoing the damage President Obama did to the country. I’m proud of my record which lowered the tensions between the left and right. My administration got the real unemployment rate down to 9.8%. I improved the security of our people.”

  “President Jackson, you may have lowered tensions between the left and right, however, you allowed an increase of tensions and discrimination against the followers of Allah. Your security measures were targeted against the followers of Allah and Mohmand his messenger.”

  “Mr. President-elect, I tried to calm the tension against Muslims. If Muslims hadn’t attacked innocents around the world, if Muslims didn’t kill women and children of other faiths…”

  “There are no other faiths. The only faith is Islam. The only true religion is to follow the word of Allah as recorded by his messenger, may peace be with him, Mohmand. Allah and Mohmand his messenger have laid out the way to honor and serve Allah. Those who practice false faiths, serve Satan, it is the duty of every Muslim to either convert nonbelievers or kill them because they pollute the minds of the true believers. Nothing will be allowed which may lead the faithful away from the love of Allah. I’m honored to have been selected by Allah to protect the American people. I’ve been selected by Allah to bring America to its rightful place in Allah’s world. Some may not agree, some may try to fight my plans, these poor souls will quickly realize they can easily convert to the one true faith or they will have to pay the Jizya. Infidels won’t be allowed to hold certain positions in my administration.”

  “I know the American people, they won’t accept these changes. The Tea Party, which holds over 125 seats in the House won’t accept any new taxes or your new policies. They stall your policies.”

  “President Jackson, the average citizen WILL happily accept my changes. They will accept them because the media supports me and my changes, they will spin the changes so that the average citizen will be happy to accept the changes. The media will fill the people’s heads with sound bites that support my cause and quiet the voices of any dissenters. Infidels will be silenced one way or another. None will be permitted to speak out against the word of Allah, any who attempt to, will find they don’t have access to the public airwaves. They won’t be able to publish their lies anywhere people could read or hear them. When President Obama led the government takeover of the Internet, he laid the foundation I’ll use to crush all dissent voices. If the Tea Party gives me any problems, I’ll go around Congress by using the limited executive orders that are left to the office. I’ll have my agencies levy fees on nonbelievers, these don’t need Congressional approval.”

  President Jackson looked at his watch, he nodded towards his guest, “Mr. President-elect it’s almost time we begin making our way to the podium. The Chief Justice, Ms. Hillary Clinton is waiting for us. I understand she plans to resign right after she swears you into office.”

  “It was another stroke of President Obama’s genius that he appointed Mrs. Clinton to the Supreme Court shortly after she lost the election to the infidel Cruz. Her Presidential aspirations were doomed when her story of cleaning her server turned out to be false. When Rush got his hands on all 30,000 of her emails from her server her run was finished. President Obama appointed her in a recess appointment to get around the Senate, hence protecting her from prosecution. While Obama had no love for Clinton, he knew if he didn’t find a way to support her he’d bring him down with her. She’s going to resign so I can appoint her replacement.”

  “How did you manage that? I assumed she would never leave the court. If I had know of a way to get her to resign I would have used it in my first term.”

  “She and I had a couple of meetings after I was elected.”

  “What did that cost you?”

  “Only a small donation to her charity. $75 million is a small price to pay to have her resign. My friends wired her off shore accounts the money, hence she’ll resign this evening.”

  President Jackson sat back on his couch in surprise, “You bribed the Chief Justice to resign.”

  “Yes, as you know the Clinton’s have always had a price on everything. Hillary was harder to buy after Bill’s unfortunate heart attack in bed with those two young women. His passing was such a loss. President Jackson, I’d be happy to appoint you as a special advisor. I’m sure we can come to agreeable financial terms. I can make you a fantastically rich man, you’d never want for anything for the rest of your life. Your son, Robert would never have to work a day in his life. After helping me, you could buy yourself your own country where you could be President for life. You could be King, which will enable you to hand your crown to your son. Your family can rule forever. All I ask is for you to remain silent and disappear, quietly leave the country.”

  “Mr. Mohmand, I’m not interested in being part of your administration. I don’t believe in kings or dictators. In fact, I may lead the voices speaking out against your administration. You may have been elected by the people. You don’t understand America or Americans. Your plans are not going to be accepted by the good people of America. They are going to fight you for every inch of their freedoms you try to take away from them. You’re going to quickly learn America doesn’t want to be part of your Caliphate. Middle America doesn’t understand what you really stand for, or who you are. Once they figure out who you really are, they are going to fight you. If you go too quickly, you’re going to find the military won’t support you. They may even remove you from office.”

  Laughing President-elect Mohmand says, “You forget, as commander in chief, I get to appoint the service chiefs, they will be totally supportive of me. All military officers will be, or they’ll be looking for new jobs outside of the military. Any officer who doesn’t support me will have their career cut short. I plan to bring in military advisors from members of the Caliphate. They will help train the US Military how to deal with domestic terrorists. They will train the military how to suppress any civil unrest.”

  “What about their oath of office? What about your oath of office, do you intend to openly break your oath? The military isn’t going to follow instructions from your imported advisors.”

  Smiling an evil grin, “President Jackson, the Holy Quran instructs us to lie to nonbelievers to further Allah’s cause. I’ll lie, I’ll deceive, I’ll do anything that pushes the Great Satan to recognize the true word of Allah. I won’t stop until America bec
omes an Islamic country and a member in good standing in the Caliphate. Nothing is going to stop me. Allah is my light, he is smiling on me, he has shown me our time has arrived. I will take my place in the history of the Quran.”

  “Maybe I will stop you.”

  Smiling President-elect Mohmand said, “President Jackson, if you like living, don’t try to oppose me. You won’t enjoy it. Your reputation will suffer, you may even lose your loved ones, in fact, it would be a loss to the country if you were to meet with an untimely accident. Accidents happen so often these days. The country will mourn you, I will use your death to further my goals. Even in your death, you will help me. Your only option is accept my offer and quietly slip away.”

  “You shouldn’t threaten a sitting President, it’s a crime. The secret service doesn’t have a sense of humor.”

  Smiling, Mohmand says, “In a few minutes the secret service will report to me. In a few minutes I will be the leader of the free world, the most powerful man alive. Allah’s will, will be done. If I were you, I’d retire in silence and follow MacArthur’s advice and just fade away. Mind your own business and disappear so I don’t have to make you and your family disappear. Don’t make waves, go along to get along. It’ll be healthier for you.”

  “Mr. President-elect, don’t ever threaten me or think you know everything. I’m warning you to go very slow or this country will rise up and bring you down.”

  “The people won’t revolt, because like a frog placed in a pot of water, they will sit in the water as the temperature is brought up enough to boil the frog. The average American citizen is going to be happy to have what they have. They’re not going do anything to upset their comfort. They won’t even try to speak out because they won’t want to rock their boat. The average American is more interested in who in Hollywood is sleeping with whom than the loss of a few of their freedoms. Soon, the water they’re sitting in will boil and they’ll cook themselves alive. It’s going to be so easy leading America down the path I want it to go. Look at history, look at how easily President Obama started the transformation of America. The press could have ensured he wasn’t elected, yet they fawned all over him. They saw him as their Messiah. I’m going to show them, I AM their Messiah. I will lead America to a new brighter future following Allah. If the people don’t follow the laws of Allah, they will lose their heads. Millions may lose their heads. America’s great rivers will run red with the blood of infidels and the worshipers of the cross and the six pointed star. America will learn, there is only one God and that God is Allah.”

  President Jackson slowly shakes his head saying, “We’ll see about that. I think I can promise you that America isn’t the same as a third world country. The people of America will fight you with every asset they have. Most of the country isn’t like Detroit. The people aren’t going to rush to switch religions. 277 years ago, the people stood up to the world’s mightiest military to form this country, they are not going to allow you to walk into America and change it into an Islamic country.”

  “President Jackson, they won’t be able to stop me. A handful of citizens armed with hunting rifles against the strongest army in the world won’t stand a chance. We will easily crush them. Their blood will join the blood of other infidels who’ve tried to stand in our way. Nothing can stop us now. Our time has come. We’ve waited over a thousand years for this moment.”

  President Jackson remembers his history of the previous one hundred years, the holocaust of the Jews in Europe, the holocaust of the Armenian Christians, the holocaust of the Middle Eastern Christians. He frowned knowing there was only one way to stop Mohmand’s plans. His thoughts are broken by Mohmand’s words, “President Jackson please put a smile on your face before we face the people. I wouldn’t want them to worry something is wrong.” Mohmand laughed knowing he’d already won. He looked at President Jackson, “Remember your history, no one stopped Hitler, no one stopped ISIS, no one stopped the Turks, no one will stop me. The media will cover up the truth. You should join us, fighting us will cost you everything you hold dear. Come, let’s uphold tradition of a peaceful transfer of power.”

  A secret service agent knocks on the Oval Office door, he sticks his head in the Oval Office saying, “Mr. Presidents, it’s time. We should be leaving now.”

  The two men stand, they face each with hate filled eyes before they walk side by side towards the front door of the White House. The secret service leads them to the front of the House while other agents fall in behind them. Agents on President Jackson’s protection detail kept one eye on their counterparts who are on President-elect Mohmand’s detail. Neither side trusted the other. Everyone has been cleared from the White House halls, the two men walk from the Oval Office to the White House front door where a podium has been set up for the swearing in ceremony. Each of the two secret service details are worried because they’ve received many threats against each president. Many people realized too late, President-elect Mohmand is a fundamentalist Muslim. One who has plans to transform America into an Islamic country. Some reborn Christians worry that Mohmand is going to try to outlaw all religion except for Islam. There’s many within the secret service and the military who have concerns about the new president. They worry the new president is going to try to turn America into a Muslim state, one where non-Muslims won’t be welcome, or will be treated as second class citizens. Their fears are well founded. The secret service has also received threats against President Jackson from Mohmand’s supporters.

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  The EIBLAZE Internet network hosts eight different Internet forum discussion groups. They publish articles and interviews about the damage President-elect Mohmand planned to do to the country. In the years since President Obama appointed Hillary to the Supreme Court, the average American has seen their rights steadily eroded. There was a limit to how many guns and ammunition citizens can purchase and own. The progressives couldn’t get enough votes to overturn the second amendment, so they passed laws modifying it. If the courts held that citizens could own weapons, there was nothing in the second amendment that said anything about how many weapons a citizen could own. Anti gun messages were taught in schools as early as mandatory preschool. The first amendment was altered so that hate speech was extended to cover any negative Islamic comments. By the year 2050 courts ruled that crossing one’s self in public or openly wearing a cross or Star of David was hate speech because it might offend someone of another faith. The Federal Department of Anti Hate Speech spent billions trying to shut down hundreds of Internet forums where people post hate speech against groups they didn’t trust or like.

  The media and activist courts gave special allowances to Muslims. The percentage of people in America who were Muslim skyrocketed. During the election cycle of 2052 the EIBLAZE network tried to explain that the Green Party wasn’t an environmental group, they were green because the flag of Islam was green. The Green Party candidates all spouted phony statements and commitments for cleaner air and water. They said anything in order to get elected so they could transform America. Rush, Glen, and Mark begged their audiences to spread the message not to fall for the Green Party’s lies. The media gave the Green Party hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free PR and advertising. Mohmand was invited on every television program while his major challenger from the Tea Party wasn’t invited on a single program. The only PR the media gave the Tea Party was negative, most of it was made up lies. The Tea Party’s advertising was rejected by the major networks. Mohmand refused to share the stage with an infidel. Hence, for the first time in one hundred years there were no presidential debates.

  The crowd waiting for the President-elect Mohmand’s inauguration broke all records. Hundreds of thousands of Islamic green flags flew in the crowd. They chanted Allah Akbar (God is Great) to celebrate one of their own becoming President. As the two Presidents walk towards the podium, the crowd screams as one, “ALLAH AKBAR” the air vibrates with the crowd’s screaming. President-elect Mohmand lifts his hands over his he
ad smiling, the hundreds of thousands standing in front of the White House goes crazy with excitement. The hundreds of thousands cheer and scream their joy. Tens of thousands cover their eyes in prayer of thanks to Allah for making it possible for Mohmand to be elected.

  A sound shocks the millions watching the inauguration, they are frozen in place. The sound was a gun shot. The Secret Service jumps into action when they hear the gunshot, they push both men to the ground, some lay over the two men, trying to protect them with their own bodies. Other agents draw their hidden weapons. They try to scan the crowd in the millions looking for the shooter, President-elect Mohmand pushes the secret service agent off of him. He stands, pushing other secret service agents away from him. He calmly walks to the microphone where he says, “Hello America. I hope that shot was simply someone shooting into the air due to the excitement of my inauguration. If it was, please don’t shoot anymore, you scare the secret service. When they get scared they get trigger nervous, they may shoot you by mistake. In addition your bullets are going to come back to earth, where, they may hit one of the faithful who are here today to witness the beginning of America becoming part of the worldwide Caliphate. For the first time in human history, all of mankind will be bound together under Allah.”