Chapter 011, Pilgrimage
After the Snow Leopards had solved the third stronghold, Omar couldn't sit still, and he took the initiative to contact Canglong: "What the hell do you want to do?
"No, I've warned you, and my warnings always come with action, if you don't want the rest of the al-Qaeda members in Basra to be slaughtered by my men, get out of here. Canglong was unceremonious, "In the eyes of Americans, you are difficult hungry wolves, but in our eyes, you are just lambs to the slaughter." ”
On the other end of the phone, Omar fell silent, and after some time, he finally softened: "I will order my brothers to withdraw from Basra province, but you don't go too far!"
"As long as you don't stop me, we don't interfere with the river water, by the way, let your people leave something by the way when they evacuate. Canglong said calmly, "Just say, this is the will of the prophet!"
"What the hell do you want to do?" Omar suddenly became angry, "Are you blaspheming the Prophet? I won't promise you." ”
"No, it's just a reasonable excuse for you, don't you do it often? It's okay to do it once, right? Canglong smiled.
Omar hung up angrily, apparently he kept his agreement with Canglong, after the al-Qaeda terrorists left, they left something behind, and these things happened to be discovered by the local residents, so as soon as the news spread, a miracle appeared in Basra Province, the prophet was coming, and Al-Qaeda took the initiative to leave Basra Province.
Before the establishment of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad succeeded in preventing wars, unifying Arabia, and eradicating poverty and hunger for the Arabs.
And the next day, more people received a revelation from Allah, which of course was just a dream, and the content of the dream was exactly the same, the prophet was about to come and perform a miracle to end the war in Iraq, and then someone linked the withdrawal of al-Qaeda to this dream, so the people in Basra city became even more convinced that the prophet was coming.
"What's wrong with these Iraqis?" A week later, in the safe house, the members of Team B looked at the people of Basra outside, all dressed in halal clothes, and were puzzled, "Is it just because of a dream?"
Over the course of a week, more people had this dream, and when they announced it to each other, they found that they had all had the same dream, so the Islamic elders of Basra spontaneously organized to start praying in the mosque in the center of the city and to worship the holy city of Mecca, where the Prophet was born.
In just an instant, a contingent of about tens of thousands of people, including Shiites and Sunnis, would have spit on each other, but now they actually live in peace and go to the mosque to worship together, and even the clashes between the security forces and the Badr brigade have stopped because of the worship of countless people.
The week-long chaos is gone, and the mosques in Basra are taking place with this kind of worship, where people are silently chanting something and are very reverent.
The safe house where Team B is located is not far from the mosque, and now the street below the safe house has been blocked, and people can't enter the mosque, so they start worshipping in one direction around the mosque, so the members of Team B are so surprised.
"Faith is such a terrible thing. The snow leopard muttered to himself, in the modern world, this is definitely a magnificent spectacle, although there are many such pilgrimages in the holy cities of Islam, but they are indeed the first time they have seen them, and they can feel the devotion of these worshippers.
"It's not a strange thing in the Arab countries, Americans always preach that Islamists are crazy, but in fact, the teachings of Islam do not preach violence, on the contrary, the teachings of Islam are the same as all major religions, preaching peace, truth, goodness and beauty, if you want to talk about piety, no denomination of believers, has the piety of Islamists, at least until now, it is like this. "It's not strange at all.
"Aren't those al-Qaeda or other terrorist organizations all Muslims who believe in Islam?" At this moment, Tang Long asked puzzledly, "What the Americans said is not bad, they are making terrorist attacks everywhere!"
"If your country is constantly invaded and oppressed, will you choose to be a silent lamb, or will you roar at the world in anger and become a fierce lion?"
Tang Long didn't answer, because his answer was the latter, Teacher Cang taught them, in a word, when encountering injustice, resist and rebel until the lamb becomes a lion.
"But because of a dream, it's too unrealistic. Su Su looked disdainful, "Do they really believe that the so-called prophet will come? ”
"Muslims' faith is the purest, so they tend to believe in certain things, but they just ......" Bai Wuchang shook his head, not looking at this scene, but everyone looked at him strangely, a Russian, actually in the room, making the same pious worship as the people below.
"It's just that the people behind this pure faith are very evil. Shrimp, who had been sitting on the side and had not spoken, suddenly spoke.
So they turned to the question, who is using the beliefs behind this? They looked at Xiami, and Xiami said in general, "Whoever becomes the prophet in the end is using these beliefs." ”
"I'm afraid you won't guess this person if you kill him, it's actually ......" Vivien suddenly thought of something.
But before he could finish speaking, Canglong, who came out of the room, suddenly interrupted her: "No matter who takes advantage of this faith, but if he can really bring peace here, he is the true prophet, am I right?"
Only Tang Long nodded, and the others didn't speak, and then Canglong said, "Don't watch tricks here, which of you wants to go to Badrna with me?"
No one agreed, not even Hei Wuchang just continued to eat his own things, and he didn't seem interested in any so-called spectacle other than eating.
Canglong originally wanted to take Vivian with him, but he didn't expect Vivian to ignore her at all, but his face was full of sarcasm and ridicule, as if he was scolding him for his shamelessness, so that Shrimp said coldly: "I'll go with you!"
"Okay. Canglong said and looked at the snow leopard, "You guys quickly move to the Rumaila oil field in Zubair!"
After the two of them left the safe house, they didn't say anything along the way, and in the face of the devout Muslims, they didn't go on a rampage, because the traffic was completely blocked, so they had to walk through, and when they reached the halfway point, Shrimp suddenly said: "You're the one who made the prophet, right?"
Canglong didn't have any strange reaction, just smiled and didn't deny or affirm, but Shrimp got his own answer and continued: "Can you tell me, how did you create this dream?"
Hearing this, Canglong's face was expressionless: "Because of war, because of longing, so dreams appeared." ”
"Be specific. ”
"You know, there was no such thing as God a long, long time ago. Canglong said as he walked.
"And then?"
"God is just a kind of faith, when the people of faith appear, and then continue to increase, so people appear to worship, and the emergence of faith is often because of people's desires, maybe the reality is not satisfied, or maybe because of disasters, although many people know that God does not actually exist, but in order to give people hope for survival, so the ruler must create a god out, so that people believe in it to believe. Canglong smiled.
Shrimp nodded: "It turns out that the process of creating your dreams is the same as the process of creating faith and gods, I am so stupid that I only thought now that Vivian's woman seems to have seen through your tricks." ”
"You're right, but the faith of the people of Basra has existed for a long time, but they are now too eager for peace, too desperate for war to disappear...... Well, so I'm just letting people spread rumors that someone has a dream, as for who this person is, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that when people are desperate, a hope suddenly appears, and there will be resonance, with our Chinese understanding, dreams are what we think and expect in reality. Canglong said calmly.
"So Vivien thinks you're shamelessly taking advantage of these people of pure faith?" said Shrimp Mi wondered, "but I wonder who would spread rumors about blasphemy against the gods in their hearts if they have such deep faith?"
"In peacetime, you may not have one, but in this city, you can catch a handful of them casually. Canglong didn't care.
"Are you going to be this prophet?" asked Shrimp again.
Canglong froze, glanced at him, smiled but didn't say anything, and went straight to Badr's villa, but Shrimp got the answer from Canglong's eyes.
When they saw Badr, Badr was pacing in the villa very worriedly, and when he saw Canglong coming, he was a little uncomfortable, but he still performed a face-to-face etiquette with Canglong, and then said: "Although I disagree with your blasphemy, I still want to ask you, what do you want to do next?"
"Show a miracle!" Canglong smiled.
This made the shrimp who followed behind a little puzzled, Canglong really thought he was a god?
Badr didn't understand it even more: "Do you really think of yourself as a god?"
"Wasn't the Prophet Muhammad just an ordinary person before he became a prophet, but everything he did after he became a prophet was a miracle, why is that?" asked Canglong rhetorically.
Badr shook his head, even the shrimp was puzzled, Canglong smiled and said: "It's very simple, because he did what people longed to achieve, because of gratitude, plus faith, these things he did, naturally became miracles, so what we are about to do is also very simple, eliminate chaos, relieve hunger, poverty, ......"
Canglong said a lot, although General Badr was very uncomfortable, because Canglong explained what they believed in so cheesily, and used it, it is not comfortable for anyone to be compared, but this is the truth, at least Canglong succeeded in keeping Shiites and Sunnis from conflicting, although it is only temporary now, but in the long run, if Canglong really realizes what he said, it will not be temporary.
What's more, to Badr's greatest surprise, it was the dragon that made al-Qaeda disappear in Basra in less than a week, and left some so-called miracles to show, and Badr really suspected that the dragon was the leader of al-Qaeda......