AN EXTRACT FROM BOOK ONE

Malika Khan took the bus to Oxford Street the very next day, and it was her misfortune that she chose that particular day because that was when bombs exploded in a total of seventeen Marks and Spencer stores in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and London, including the Marble Arch branch. The toll was not as bad as it might have been had the bombs been placed more effectively but even so the atrocity left eighty four dead and over three hundred and fifty injured, many seriously. Malika Khan lost her right leg.

Marks and Spencer stores throughout the UK were shut down for the foreseeable future, and the company faced financial meltdown. In an interesting turn of events, the British public showed unexpected loyalty and rallied round their favourite store, and online sales went through the roof. The attack was unprecedented, but so was the public reaction to it. An until-now unheard of organisation calling itself Justice for Palestine claimed responsibility, as a result of which public support for the Palestinian cause crashed. The group had made a catastrophic miscalculation. They failed to understand that they had attacked a national institution, and they also completely miscalculated British people’s view of terrorism on their own soil. Those people had been through many years of IRA terrorism and that had only had the effect of hardening attitudes against Northern Ireland. Justice for Palestine had thought they were attacking Marks and Spencer, whether that made any sense or not, but they weren’t, they were attacking the United Kingdom.

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For several months the security services had been concerned about something they had almost no information about other than that it had a name, the Copenhagen Protocols. The name cropped up in connection with a number of disparate jihadist groups but a search by their counterparts in the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, the PET, had uncovered little information, other than that in 2006 a number of suspected Islamic radicals had flown into Copenhagen from various countries, it was presumed for some kind of meeting. It was supposed at the time that this was in connection with the Jyllands-Posten Mohamed cartoons, and as no crime appeared to have taken place no action was taken. The Danish government was being especially careful of Muslim sensibilities at the time and so the men were not even interviewed by immigration officials. The Copenhagen Protocols didn’t start appearing on international searches until that date, so the guess now was that whatever that meeting was about the Protocols was the result. It could have been something quite innocent, but given the unsavoury reputation of everyone who attended the meeting that was considered improbable.

AN EXTRACT FROM BOOK TWO

And of course as well as KD and the political Muslims there was a third party in this which was Bozorgan, which existed separate from the Muslim community, because it was a clandestine organisation and even Danish Muslims were and had to remain unaware of what was being done in their name. The reason for this, as far as Bozorgan was concerned, was that despite their name this was not a specifically Danish campaign, it was worldwide. Denmark was a useful testing ground because it ticked all the boxes for Islamic hegemony, but with its population of under six million it was statistically insignificant. More importantly, Bozorgan was biding its time. The Protocols were designed to bring about a new Islamic Caliphate across the globe; what happened in Denmark was quite unimportant by comparison.

Denmark was the testing ground for what would be a global war on the West.

What affected Danish Muslims more than the exposure of far-right, anti-Muslim factions, was the government’s response to those factions. Had they simply let the problem die a natural death, what happened would not have happened, but they insisted on picking at it like a sore, and it just kept bleeding. To take advantage of all this government largesse Bozorgan launched a charity, called the Muslim Welfare Association of Denmark. Every imam and community leader was enlisted to get involved.

This was the point at which imams and Muslim community leaders were encouraged by the Copenhagen Protocols Office to come to the defence, as they put it, of the Muslim community. All Bozorgan had to do was establish the charity, get everyone involved and then back out and let them get on with it. Well, they didn’t back out completely, because what the community didn’t know was that the imam of the Central Copenhagen Mosque, Bashir Hosseini, was also the director of the Danish division of Bozorgan. In his new role as Director of Muslim – Christian Relations, which was a meaningless but useful title, he would have a watching brief over all of the charity’s activities. In fact his title was not without merit, because the government saw Hosseini as the perfect channel between itself and the Muslim community, which was precisely what he had intended.

AN EXTRACT FROM BOOK THREE

It was by now essential that the United States of America was officially wound up. The rebels held a further referendum on a constitution for their new country, and since no-one had yet decided what it was to be called that was also a decision everyone had a say in. What was finally decided on was The Confederation of American States. The Canadians were not completely happy with the word ‘American’ which people had always thought referred to the US, but they accepted the logic that they had always been part of the continent of North America. Most people in the deep south quickly adopted the name ‘The Confederacy’, and in time the name became the generally accepted shorthand for the new country.

The Muslims in Washington DC held no referendum. They quickly issued a constitution, and without them actually making an announcement on the matter it was inescapable that it bore the title ‘Constitution of the Islamic Republic of America’. The constitution was largely a cut and paste job from the Qu’ran.

There was of course a great deal of negotiation yet to take place between the two countries. Winding up the former United State of America was not a simple matter. In order to facilitate these discussions it was agreed each would set up a liaison office in the other’s capital. In the Islamic Republic this was Detroit, and in the Confederacy it was, at least temporarily, in Sacramento. The Confederacy’s obvious selection of Head of Mission was Colonel Michael Berenson. Colonel Berenson pointed out that he had no experience in such a role, and the selection committee quite rightly responded that no-one did. He at least understood the power of states. That might not be directly relevant to this situation, but what was relevant? It was agreed that he would have an apartment in the compound provided for the Mission in Detroit, to avoid spending time unnecessarily outside the safety of its walls, and there would be a plane at his disposal, at the local airport, to ferry him between the two countries. The assumption was that the entire compound would be bugged and that communication with Sacramento would be mostly by courier, but that Berenson should travel regularly between the two.