Category Archives: Islam
Torturous Jackpot
Frankly, Johnson was broke. He’d blown all his money doing unsavory things but couldn’t change that. He had to survive and hoped to soon flourish and thought he would after learning from confidential sources about James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen and writing them letters. He knew they could help. They’d been mere staff psychologists […]
Boko Haram
studious girls nailed by boko haram
Also posted in Boko Haram, Kidnapping, Nikolai Lenin, Poetry - GTC, Religion
Just Askin’
why half million nigerian soldiers dance with zealots
Also posted in Boko Haram, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Poetry - GTC, Religion
Pyramids
pyramid generals mummify those asking questions
Also posted in Egypt, Middle East, Mohamed Morsi, Poetry - GTC
Godane Wants You
Bin Laden considered me extreme and sneered when I wrote, “At your service, Osama.” Good riddance. Al Qaeda’s irrelevant. Come and join Shabaab. I shall liberate all Muslims. As a prerequisite I’ve eliminated many former allies who were soft and didn’t understand we must ceaselessly destroy invading Kenyans and Somali traitors and foreign teachers and […]
Also posted in Ahmed Abdi Godane, Kenya, Religion, Short Pieces - GTC, Somalia
Good News for Jesus at the Bakersfield Islamic Conference
At the sixth annual Bakersfield Islamic Conference, before a few hundred attendees in a hotel ballroom, crew-cut Joshua Evans, looking scholarly behind a long brown beard and matching brown glasses, delivered this information: you cannot be a Muslim unless you believe in Jesus, one of five great Prophets who brought about seminal changes. Islam also […]
Also posted in Bakersfield, Jesus Christ, Mohammad, Religion
Male Hijab
some men hide from each other in hijabs
Also posted in Middle East, Poetry - GTC, Religion, Women's Rights
Criminal Justice in Islam
In blighted but affordable east Bakersfield old bank transformed into new mosque hosts annual Islamic Conference where keynote speaker Main Al-Qudah, PhD in Islamic law and imam at large mosque in Houston, steps to podium. He’s slim, stern, middle-aged, dressed in suit and tie, and resembles prosecutor as power points to screen bearing principles of […]
Also posted in Alcohol, Bakersfield, Crime, Drugs, Jordan, Main Al-Qudah, Marriage, Middle East, Rape, Religion, Saudi Arabia
Avoiding Rape
This story is now in the collection “Tales of Romance”
Also posted in George Thomas Clark, Religion, Sex, Women's Rights
Breaking the Fast of Ramadan
Dawn till dusk Ramadan adherents forsake food, drink, sex, and destructive behavior to “cleanse bodies and souls, empathize with less fortunate, embrace self-purity and self-restraint, cut themselves off from worldly conflicts, and focus on purpose of life by constantly being aware of God.” Month of rigor ends with consumption of dates followed by feast. Afterward […]
Also posted in George Thomas Clark, Religion, Women's Rights
