Now that things are settling down, experts mean to tell us how it all happened. I wish them well.
Obviously, the catalyst was the Flood. When S.I. – that is, “Scimitars of Islam,” as they were called – blew up the Aswan Dam, causing nine million innocents to drown within three days, along the Nile Valley, they knew they were triggering a chain reaction.
They forged evidence to incriminate the Copts. The utter devastation fuelled the need for a scapegoat. Despite the fact that most Christians in Egypt had died with the Muslims, churches were burned all across the country – or whatever remained of it.
Music is playing again.
The Regent is now decorating wounded soldiers.
According to the programme, in a few minutes we will walk to the Pyramids, or rather, to where they used to stand.
Fatimah is waving at me. To think she was about my age when we first met. She doesn’t look seventy-four. Without her, I wouldn’t be here.
As I was saying, religious violence rapidly spread across Africa and other continents, even in countries where Muslims were not the majority of the population.
S.I. had managed to unite hundreds of budding radical groups, from England to the Philippines, and from Nigeria to Sweden. At their signal – and the Flood was quite a signal – mini insurrections occurred, targeting Christian buildings and communities.
Merciless hackers hijacked vital networks such as health services, banks and even the army. National governments declared martial law. Democracies were destabilised. But it wouldn’t have ended up in a global conflict, in my opinion, had powerful secularists not taken advantage of the chaos.
First, they allowed radical Islam to “retaliate” against Christians. Mainstream media denounced “Islamophobia” while failing to expose the jihadists’ lies holding the Copts responsible for the Flood.
Then, they feigned to wonder at the anarchy they’d allowed to prosper, and affirmed that the only solution was to crack down on all religion, whether Muslim, Christian or other.
It eventually prompted a three way war: Jihadists aggressing Christians; Christians engaging in legitimate defence; and secularists trying to crush both. They would have won. Until...
No one saw it coming: the conversion of Russia – well over a century after it was announced in Portugal! China did not follow Russia (as yet), but soon adopted a policy of benevolent neutrality towards Catholicism, which was enough to bring further millions of convert Chinese to the Church.
But I am late.
Fatimah just sent a member of staff to escort me to the car park.
I must follow the delegation.
The memorial service at the (crumbled) Pyramids lasted only twenty minutes. Everybody’s gone now, while I lag behind. The main ceremony will
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