Not all Muslims were extremists. Most Muslims of the time were just like most Christians of the time. They wanted to live their life in peace and not be bothered by others about it. The actions of the Salafi Islamic State of Detroit angered them. The religious fighting in the streets between Sunni and Shia extremists motivated them. And like their fellows in Constantinople, Tehran, and Cairo, they finally acted on their years of discontent. They smuggled Twilight and her crew into downtown Detroit where they gained direct access to the systems that controlled Detroit’s robotic defenses. Then came the hard part.
What would do if your world ended? What would you do if everyone and everything you knew and loved was lost? Would you seek revenge or would you forgive? Would you lash out in blind anger or would you go in search of inner peace? Jack chose revenge. Jack chose to kill as many of the Shang as he could bring under his guns. But what he found wanted more than that. What he found would forge him into something he had never planned on being. You see Jack did not want to grow up, but boys merely play at war. It takes a man to wage one.
The Tibetans, Mongolians, Japanese, and all the other lesser castes shipped out to the Hyades Cluster and then ordered to have at least four children per family so as to increase the productive population outnumbered their Han masters when we came. The government kept them in line via ruthless punishments to those who did not mind their betters. Made them fear punishment more than a life of slavery. We broke those rules when we won, but truly changing the worlds did not happen in a day. I am a student of history. I know what happened after our own Civil War. I decided when I looked upon those worlds that I would not allow history to repeat itself in the Hyades.
I remember when the border region between the American and Mexican States was a desert you know. It wasn’t that long ago. Long dead Presidents sent so many Indians there because the land was so poor no one in their right mind would want it. But the secret about deserts is that they are full of life just waiting for rain to bloom for anyone with eyes to see. I’ve been to the Indian Nations down there and they are rather nice little places to live now that the rains are a more common occurrence. They are certainly nothing like the old Westerns of my youth, when the Great American Desert was brown and drab most of the year.
The Salafi Muslims in charge of the Islamic State of Detroit saw America as the Great Satan, as opposed to the Little Satan of Israel. It was their holy mission from Allah to destroy and conquer America. Taking over Detroit and driving out the non-Muslims was merely their first step towards that goal, though they masterfully played the news networks into reporting that those who left did so because of their religious intolerance towards the peaceful Muslims of Detroit. Step two was their contribution to the devastation of the American power and communications networks during the Second Great Depression. They did not act alone of course. Attacks against the networks came from many directions. But the real life Twilight found proof of their involvement and published it for all to see, to the profound regret of the news networks in bed with Detroit.

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