Chapter 19 - "A Village Called New York"

Read the chappy title. 'nuff said. Hehe.

"Motenson learned that Sarfraz had heard a broadcast in Uighur, one of the half dozen languages he spoke, on a Chinese channel saying two great towers had fallen."

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Obviously it was the Twin Towers that were the "two great towers" that had collapsed. They were in the 2001 time period set in this chapter, and that dated the clearly non-accidental explosion of these two buildings. My, my. Isn't someone getting angsty? Why don't the terrorists run home and cry to their mommys on how proud they felt when they had dropped the kill? Oh, that's right. They're so stupid that they willingly gave in their own lives that could have acheived something with a bit more moral and wouldn't be glared upon, and so blind that they didn't realize that in the building they despised, there were real, actual people. A majority of the people had families to come home and take care of, their own goals to complete in life before succumbing to final peace and rest. I'm sorry; did someone dial a 1-800-Dumb-Muslims hotline? I don't recall us inviting them over. They can just barge in like that? We have a nice security system 'round here.

"'Your problem in New York Village comes from there,' he said, snarling at the border. 'From this Al Qaeda shetan,' he said spitting toward Afghanistan, 'Osama.'"

Holy shmokes! I might not be able to comprehend what shetan means, as whatever he's speaking is not one of my native tongues, but nothing good can come out of any mentioning of Osama. He's that evil dude with the turban and the bombing fetish. Remember him now?

"'We share in the sorrow as people weep and suffer in America today,' he said, pushing his thick glasses firmly into place, 'As we inaugurate this school. Those who have committed this evil act against the innocent, the women and children, to create thousands of widows and orphans do not do so in the name of Islam. By the grace of Allah the Almighty, may justice be served upon them.'"

Actually, there is no real "name of the Islam." Every religion, as stated in one of my previous posts, does not, in any text its book holds, harbor blatant and short, to-the-point writings on "Don't do this, do this, screw that." But to the dear readers of this obnoxious book blog, if I do say so myself, I am sorry if you think that through all the posts I have made on Three Cups of Tea are negative and directed towards you. They are most likely not if you do not fit the description of a typical douche bag, and well, a person that manipulates and dominates like a dog after its bitch. If you're a nice man, underneath all that layer of religion and faith and whatnot, and your heart is in its right place (not a remnant of the dissembled body parts of a suspect from the fall) I respect you as a human, all in all.