President Mohammad Allawi stood on the podium facing Victory Square in Cairo, the testimony of the UIS victory in the Great African War. Facing the assembled dignitaries, congressmen and nearly two million citizens and growing, he raised his arms for silence.
Less than 12 hours before the fascist Hindu extremist nation of India has launched the biggest unprovoked invasion in the United Islamic States short but unfortunately blood stained history. Allawi knew before he had begun, that this speech would be the defining moment of his Presidency and change the course of history. That children would read about this moment in history texts for centuries to come humbled him greatly.
The crowd grew silent at last.
Fellow citizens and brothers of the book! I have come before you today as your elected President with the gravest of news our young confederation is yet to face. Exactly Eleven hours and Forty minutes before along the Indian border, forces of the Hindu extremists invaded our sacred and holy soil, casting a shadow over the lives of millions.
After almost a decade of peace, security and prosperity assisted by the continued faith of the Islamic people in the United Islamic States, all we have laboured for now stands teetering on the precipice of total annihilation.
Murmurs rise throughout the crowd as the multitude of people digested the unpleasant facts, it was clear this war would be hard fought. Behind them more people joined the crowd.
The genocidal menace of India wishes to destroy our fragile democracy, they wish to extend their extermination of Muslim men, women and children, they wish to steal yet more land from its rightful owners and they aim to caste the Islamic World back into the bleak despair of poverty and powerlessness that once plagued us. We cannot allow them to erase all that we have struggled for!
A chant of Victory Shall be Ours! begins from within the mob assembled in front of the President. On cue thought Allawi, pleased at the fact that the entire crowd of two and a bit million and growing citizens shouted the chant at full force. Allawi could feel the electricity in the air as the crowd was emboldened by the emotional unity of so many souls. Here and there flames sparked signifying yet another Indian flag or pasteboard effigy of one Indian or another being sacrificed on the altar of embittered and outraged nationalism.
Allawi once again called for silence to continue his pivotal speech.
For the last decade the United Islamic States has committed itself to the preservation of world peace, a peace now lying in ruins, tattered as Indian jackboots ground it into the mud of war. I as your President commit the entire union to the complete and utter defeat of this deadly enemy that threatens everything and everyone we hold dear. We have not forgotten the crimes India has perpetrated against the Muslim people in the past!
I have thus in agreement with the Russian leadership have ordered the military to resume full production of weapons of mass destruction to ensure that if the Hindu government chooses to deploy its own cache of these terrible weapons against us, we can and WILL retaliate in kind to our fullest of capabilities!
The roar of the crowd almost knocked Allawi off the podium; many believed that the UIS should never have disarmed.
The soldiers of Islam are fighting for our continued independence and the continued strength of the United Islamic States. In the words of the great American revolutionary, Benjamin Franklin, United we stand, divided we shall fall. Thus I implore every citizen of our great Union to united and aid in our fight with all your energies, weather you take up arms, wield a hammer, plough the fields or further our collective wisdom. Every effort towards our victory SHALL NOT be wasted!
Allawi braced himself against the thunderous cheers from the crowd as even more citizens arrived to capture this historical moment in their own hearts. Allawi was in awe of the mob before him, so intense it defied all comprehension. Nearly 2 ½ million men, women and children stood in front of him now, hanging off his every word.
Fellow children of the book, I announce to you today that WE SHALL NOT FAIL, in our sacred duty. WE SHALL REMAIN UNITED, in our struggle, AND WE SHALL REMAIN DEFIANT IN THE DEFENCE OF OUR HOMES, FAMILIES AND FAITH!
Once again the crowd exploded feeding off the raw energy created by the multitude compressed into the confines of Victory Square.
Recruitment centers for the defense forces will remain open 24 hours a day to ensure that the UIS will carry the fight to the Indian menace. I give my oath, and you shall all by my witness, that the United Islamic States shall ensure the continued security of our union and that we shall not rest until every one of the Hindu bastards that have invaded our lands finds their graves in OUR land!
Before the crowd could respond, Allawi held up his hands, 2 ½ million people remained relatively silent, millions more around the world were tuned in on satellite television.
It is by this oath that the United Islamic States has unilaterally declared WAR upon the Hindu fascist extremists of India, as a response to the UNPROVOKED invasion perpetrated by India and the call to JIHAD two hours ago by the Islamic Cleric Ruling Councils!
The crowd was whipped up into a frenzy by this announcement and begun to stream out of Victory Square, unable to be kept in check. Venting their anger, they attacked Indian businesses, ransacking many, meanwhile 1 ½ million people converged on the recently vacated Indian embassy in Cairo. Invading the compound they chanted JIHAD, JIHAD, ALLAHU AKBAR!, DEATH TO INDIA! and VICTORY SHALL BE OURS! The crowd tore down the Indian flag burning it like so many others during that day and hoisted an Islamic flag in defiance. At the same time the first flames in the Indian embassy could be seen from the outside, making the mob shout out, providing more fuel to the growing outrage against the Indian nation. The military doing nothing to control the crowd, secured all documents from the burning building that could be found, many of them left by the fleeing Indian diplomatic mission, some sure to offer some assistance to the struggle ahead. It was going to be a long night for all.
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President Allawi after the address had returned to the Presidential Palace along the Nile River just south of Cairo. So former President Abbas was right, the UIS would not be allowed to live in peace by their Eastern neighbors. He thought, indeed he had to marvel at Abbas long sighted view and praised him for the defense he helped provide for the UIS. Glancing at his watch he waited in the Presidential office, annoyed that his Minister of War was late, finally 20 minutes late, Minister of War Tammin Nasser entered the office
Sorry Im late Mr. President, you really know how to whip up a crowd the Minister begun excitedly.
Take a seat, Tammin, we have urgent discussions, I need to know how bad this war is going to get President Allawi replied, standing for his advisor and urging him to take a seat.
Mr. President, conservative estimates believe that this war will make the Great North African War look like a walk in the park in comparison. The Minister sat down; ready for what would be the most important discussion of his political career to date.
This is not the news that I had hoped for, but expected nothing but, do you consider it likely that the Indian government will employ the use of WMD?
It is a miracle of Allah that they have not done so already. Our only hope rests on the fast production of our own stockpiles, something that our numerous nuclear reactors should help facilitate. Military experts believe that the principle of Mutual Assured Destruction may prevent an Indian launch
Which is to say, you do not agree?
No I dont, Mr. President, Reason being is that the Indian leaders have precedent allowing for the use of these weapons. Need I remind you of the genocides India has committed against Muslims in the last quarter of a century, a policy that they are likely to continue? or their biological attacks against the African Federation to our south?
I take your point Minister and our response if they do launch?
I think our only option, if it comes to that will be complete retaliation, if India launches, we will have a limited time window to deliver a knockout blow, and otherwise we may lose the war
Those orders are already standing, Tammin, my only hope is that it does not have to be enacted
I fear that the Indians will soon realize that the United Islamic States cannot be defeated by conventional means, as we outnumber, out produce and possibly outfight them in every conventional way.
I fear the same, let us pray to Allah that if the Indians resort to these horrors, that we are able to garner world support especially if our counter-attack fails, you can go now, I need time for reflection on the days events
Until I see you next time, Mr. President, may Allah hear your prayers and be merciful in his judgments
The Minister got up to leave, President Allawi not allowing a moments worth of wasted time, once again returned to his papers, Indeed this war would be bloody and costly, a war that every bone in his body wished that he and his union did not have to fight, now all that remained to be see was how bloody a war did India wish to make it? And weather the economic benefits of the last decades labour remains intact? It was going to be a very long night.