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2 R E B E L S O F M I N D A N A O
taking a sentimental journey back to where he had started out so many
years before. He could not resist walking by the old store and talking to
the guy there about tires.
"I remember when this was just a used tire shop," he told the worker.
Mahir replied to the stranger, "Then you would know my father,
Hassan."
"Yes. An old and very good friend of mine. How is he?"
"My father passed away fifteen years ago."
The time had slipped away for Mount. He was surprised, "Mahir. Is
it you? I knew you when you were a small child."
"And you sir . . . are?"
"Greg Mount, Goodyear International, retired."
"Ah, yes, you helped my father, and started the good and the bad."
Mahir explained the history of the rise and fall of the House of Hakki
when Mount took him to lunch at the Sheraton Hotel, while Mount's
wife and son shopped in the bazaar for hand-made rugs and hammered
brass tables. Mahir let out his venom, but in a courteous way. He held
no personal grudge against his father's old friend, and his mother would
surely like to see the Englishman again. So Mahir invited Mount to
come out to their house by the sea some day, some indefinite day in the
future that would never come; their lives were not on parallel paths.
Mahir told Mount, "I don't hold you personally responsible. But your
company is a part of it, the informal global conspiracy of Jews and Christians.
No American can be elected president of your country nor an Englishman
prime minister unless he first swears allegiance to the State of
Israel, a government and a people who are the eternal enemy of Islam."
"Mahir, that is just not so." Mount was not offended, rather flattered
in a backhanded way that this young man would be so forthcoming with
him. "I don't think the Israelis are your enemies: they just want to have
their homeland."
But Mahir was not convinced and told Mount, "The Jews had their
own place, carved out of the land of the true believers, but that was not
enough. Now they extend their settlements into other Arab lands, and
when they have enough squatters in them, they will call a vote."
Mount saw no future in the argument, so he let it rest and asked,
"No, you can't, now. I have no hate for you. You must live your life
with your philosophy, as I must mine. I must be responsible to Allah for
what I do and for the consequences."
"Enshallah." Mount thought that he understood and had said the one
right word.
Mahir thought to himself, all this he does not understand. "And early
this very morning the country of my birth, once the heart of a great
Turkish empire, signed a military cooperation agreement with Israel, the
enemy of Islam. I've got to help shape the future that my son, the last of
the House of Hakki, will live in."
The young rebel and the old world traveler parted forever after
lunch, friendly across the generations, but the conversation confirmed
mindanao rebellions
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