They Are Coming Down the Street Now - The Taliban - Al Qaeda - Daesh
Renaissance ~ Second Edition
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BBC World News was on. It is a sunny morning, June 18, 2014. I am preparing to head south from Liverpool. I take one last look at the headlines before setting off.
To my horror, families are being herded out by god’s thugs. This one man, besuited, looked bewildered. Surely, with the world watching on, they’d be safe?
I start my journey. At my stop-off, I catch the update. This same gentleman. He had started his day, with his family, preparing to go to work.
A pit awaited him. god’s thugs shouted out that despicable declaration allahu akhbar, that curdling orgasmic cry of god’s thugs to justify their orgy of killings, deluged and deluded at the thought of endless raping of seventy vestal virgins in their idea of paradise.
And then you ask me why my faith seems not how you wish it to be?
Be away, hypocrites, all! And we all know Who said that!!
Chapter One
They are coming down
the street now!
House to house
door to door
windows breaking
children screaming
mothers pleading
fathers dying
Unborn babies ripped
from wombs
Mothers decapitated
Fathers tortured,
the outrages witnessed
on pain of death
by the family gathered,
their punishment for apostasy
they’re told
Sons screaming
pleading
defending their grandfathers
Grandsons catapulted
in an instant
from innocent childplay
to grotesque horror
on the baptism
of teenage arrival
Soldiers fleeing
weapons discarded
uniforms thrown off,
torn off,
naked running
preference to
combat
Screaming
Terror
Mortar
Rat-a-tat-tat of Kalashnikov …
… the baying …
In the name of allah so say
A lie … … in truth!
Cowards face-masked
Impunity
Atrocity
No quarter
Destruction
The body is crushed
The soul departs
Chapter Two
... ... ... ...
The Spirit gathers
The Ruach HaKodesh
Der Geist
... ... ... ...
There is peace now
and life everlasting beyond
the maelstrom
No more pain
No more suffering
No demented inquisitions
No violent questions
No demands that infants
betray their parents
No judgment
No pleading
The truth is known
either side of the
Great Divide
The Great Being in the Skies
Ever-present
Everlasting
Calming
Assuring
The Most High Ancient of Days
The Spirit … shimmering
Words spoken
Lips not moving
They have sown the wind
They must now reap the whirlwind
Not one will survive
For it is a terrible thing
to fall into the Hands
of the LIVING GOD
... as it is written …
Stop the Car, Pull into Services, In haste, In earnest
What I witnessed this morning on BBC World News was shocking, horrendous, utterly evil
Knutsford Services, M6 South today
11.04-11.25am
June 18, 2014
Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool
August 14, 2021
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Last published August 14, 2021, the Revised Edition appears as Ukraine Dispatch 28 here.
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
