Two Islamic anti-utopias : A.D. 2008-2112 by Dr. Pipes and A.D.2131 by Jane Scully

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jun 29, 2007 at 09:49

As usual , Dr. Pipes' article is an enthralling reading, indeed . It shows a possible sinister scenario of events in the US. Its only weak point , if there is any , seems to be its too near a time scale. That an intifada could start next summer in France again, would not surprise me at all. After all the Fifth Republic had one intifada nearly two years ago. It will be nothing new there then. But to suppose it would happen in America on a sclae described I find a little improbable given the negligible size of the American Moslem community. First , it should grow to say 10% or so and then Dr. Pipes' vision will come true , if there reality doesn't turn out to be worse than his vision. No land with 10% Moslems will ever avoid Moslem uprisings and jihad. But a few more generations must pass by before America's Moslems will reach c. 25 mln . But if it does then and only will it have to face the appalling news that

"Jihadis for Justice laid siege to Capitol Hill and the White House (...) Despite massive security in Washington, sniper attacks picked off some legislators and presidential aides (...)With violence (... becoming)daily, ubiquitous, endemic, and routine, occurring in rural towns, upscale suburbs, and metropolitan centres, targeting private houses, restaurants, university buildings, gas stations, and electricity grids."

But what seems improbable in one or five years may well become a grim reality in more than a hundred years so given the trends predominant at present across the West. Hence with all due respect to Dr. Pipes' imaginative writing I appreciate and enjoy so much , I prefer the novel - for a long time available only online - devoted to almost the same subject ( the future of Western Civilization) , and now available also in a book form. In short it tells the story of Europe under the brutal Islamic yoke around A.D. 2131. The Moslems came to power there in the wake of the Great Islamic Revolution several years before that date. They established the Caliphate which , however , soon broke up and the ensuing bloody sectarian wars among European Moslems split the continent into several warring states.

The Islamic Republic of Gaul with its capital - the City of 1001 Mosques - is the place where the plot unfolds. The city is devided into two quarters - the Muslim Quarter and the Christian Quarter - with all discriminatory laws derived from the Quran and practised throught the Islamic history. The main character of the story comes from the Christian Quarter. He removes amputated hands and heads after executions in the Muslim Quarter to the cemetery and cleans the execution site. As the tensions between the Islamic Republic of Gaul and the Emirate of Rome increase , the few inhabitants in the Christian Quarter are accused of conspiring with the enemy of the Republic.

The Faith Police arrests Francis , the main character. I.al. they find some illegal materials in his home - e.g. the Bible which was edited before the Great Islamic Revolution which didn't contain the obligatory passages on Muhammad's Prophethood which were inserted in all "revised" Bibles issued after the victory of Islam in Europe. Francis is imprisoned and is executed in what was once the Eiffel Tower but now serves as an execution and prayer site. In the prison he learns amny a secret of this new brave Islamic world around him.

The author has a few ideas on America at that distant time too. New York is renamed into "New Medina" and where once the WTC stood is the greatest and most revered Mosque in America. It is devoted to the memory of the 19 Martyrs that once lost their lives trying to convert America. The 11th of September is the most important official religious holiday across the country. Pilgrims from all over America and from the rest of the Islamic world arrive on that date to New Medina to celebrate some queer ceremony during which two strange model towers are destroyed in front of the mosque. Politically, America is devided into 13 Eastern Emirates fighting the Western Emirate of al-Qalifornya.

The book is available at :

http://stores.lulu.com/JaneScully

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