Tumultus
felt.
     
    “Imran?  Is he Muslim?  I thought you said the Muslims who took over Canada were to be avoided - the radicals, the killings, Sharia Law?”
     
    “What I said was that the urban areas should be avoided.  I didn’t say every Muslim in Canada was bad.  Imran isn’t one of those radicals.  In fact, I don’t ever recall him mentioning anything about religion.  He’s just a businessman.  No more.  No less.” 
     
    Cooper’s response did nothing to lessen Bear’s agitation.
     
    “This is bullshit, Mac.  We ain’t been out here a day and I’m almost blown to hell, and we are sitting around here waiting for some Muslim to arrive and show us where to go?  That’s the plan?”
     
    Before Mac could respond, Dublin intervened.
     
    “Stop it.  Sooner or later we are going to have to trust each other.  Either we do that, or we turn around and go back.  I don’t want to do that.  I’m not going to do that.  So, Mac, Bear, Reese…you need to decide if you are going to trust Mr. Wyse or if you want to give this up.  I’m tired of this.  Somebody obviously knew we were crossing those hills.  Ok, fine.  But that doesn’t mean Mr. Wyse had something to do with it, or that this Imran had something to do with it.  Unless I get information that says otherwise, I’m not going to just sit here and accuse someone of something they didn’t do.”
     
    Nobody spoke following Dublin’s rant.
     
    Then the perimeter alarm sounded.
     
    Someone, or something, was outside.
     
     
    IX.
     
     
    For a man just over thirty years of age, Imran Senturk had done remarkably well for himself given the challenges of attempting to make one’s way in a world gone mad under the rule of the New United Nations.  Born in a small seaside village just outside of Antalya, Turkey, Imran’s family had enjoyed a reasonably comfortable existence due to his father’s ownership of an apartment complex.  Imran was well educated, enjoyed both his studies and sports, and was regarded by family and neighbors as a boy blessed with wisdom and insight beyond his years.
     
    That life though was irrevocably altered shortly after his fourteenth birthday in the year 2020.  That was the year when the Muslim Brotherhood consolidated its control of every aspect of Turkish politics and culture.  Any who publicly opposed the takeover were jailed, or killed.  For months, tens of thousands were put on trial, and brutal public executions became a daily occurrence. 
     
    Soon after, government officials from the Sharia Compliance Office arrived at Imran’s home, demanding his father no longer charge rent to any tenants who were members of the newly formed Sharia government.   They returned days later to question not only Imran’s father, but his mother, two sisters, and himself about their devotion to Islam, the books they read, the Internet sites they visited, and if they were willing to participate in what was described to them as the Global Jihad program.
     
    Unknown to Imran’s family, Turkish authorities had already been in negotiations with leaders within the then emerging New United Nations.  These negotiations were built upon a relationship that the then American president had forged with Sharia leaders inside Turkey years earlier – a relationship that had played a significant part in events involving Libya, Iran, Egypt, and Syria.  Events that would eventually lead to Israel’s near total isolation from all other nations by 2021. 
     
    The man who became the second in command at the New United Nations was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s former Prime Minister.  It was Erdogan who was given near absolute authority to crush any opposition to the New United Nations throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and eventually, Europe.
     
    In 2022, a vast immigration of Muslims into Canada was initiated by Erdogan’s Sharia Compliance Office.  It was this forced immigration that uprooted Imran’s family from their

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