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"Because there were so many casualties, the Americans began to throw them into the Tigris and the Euphrates. The fish have eaten from the flesh of the American and have gotten fat. Are we permitted to eat these fish or not?' Yes. This is the truth, brothers."
The Sheik's reading of reliable hadiths, and his comforting notion of reality, is breathlessly phantasmagorical.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, step aside! This guy has got you beat. He's got an even more absurdly fantastic spin on magical realism than you. Just needs to work a bit on the art of it, but, still, I'm gonna buy his novel . . . when he writes it.
Oh, but on the contrary. Their Koran says they'll have a ruler who rides a white horse, who will lead them for 7 years, and have an army with marks on the foreheads. The war starts, and their Koran stops there. It's the end for them.
Our Bible says that leader - a leader who rules an army with marks on their foreheads for 7 years - will be destroyed and thrown into the abyss (by Christ himself with his heavenly host by his side) along with his anti-Christian army. Israel will then rule, and there will be 1,000 years of peace on earth after the Muslims are gone.