By Jerome Preisler
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An 8-book sequence "created by" Tom Clancy and Martin Greenberg, yet written by way of Jerome Preisler. the 1st 3 have been additionally made right into a Microsoft home windows video game.
TOM CLANCY'S POWERPLAYS while an nameless electronic mail indicators UpLink Technology's operatives to suspicious job on an specific island lodge, Pete Nimec is going undercover to enquire. situated off the coast of Trinidad, Rayos del Sol isn't just a playground for the world's richest and strongest humans - it's additionally the headquarters for a joint fiber optic and oil refinery venture run through UpLink and Sedco Oil. What Nimec discovers is a plot to empty oil from the United State's strategic petroleum reserve and promote it to outlaw international locations. And while the island's hugely informed defense strength is shipped to take Nimec out - heaven on the earth erupts into hell.
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SURAH 9:41 O you who believe! What (excuse) have you that when it is said to you: Go forth in Allah’s way, you should incline heavily to earth; are you contented with this world’s life instead of the hereafter? But the provision of this world’s life compared with the hereafter is but little. If you do not go forth, He will chastise you with a painful chastisement and bring in your place a people other than you, and you will do Him no harm; and Allah has power over all things. —SURAH 9:38–39, SHAKIR TRANSLATION This verse was revealed while Muhammad was preparing his people to go fight in the Campaign of Tabuk.
It can be considered the brain/educational center of Islam. So the teaching presented in this book is the Islamic teaching according to the world’s leading Islamic scholars. MY STORY You may wonder how I can be so confident that I understand the mind-set of the radical Muslim. The reason is that with my background, I could have become one of those radicals. I grew up in a conservative Muslim household in Egypt. I started memorizing the Quran at the age of five and finished when I was twelve years old.
5. Faith is the reason. I introduced these principles in my earlier book Journey into the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist. If you can grasp these five principles, you will have an excellent understanding of the mind-set of any Islamic radical who is basing his fight on his religion, not politics. PILLAR 1: NO LAW BUT ISLAMIC LAW There is one point that separates the radical Muslim from all others: Islamic law. Since the beginning of the revival of modern Islamic terrorism, the radical leaders have been crying out for their governments to implement Islamic law.