Speech of the Caliph
January 5th 1667
Alexandria, Egypt
Grand Square
Caliph Nedim had returned from Sheena Island but something had changed him. Something had happened in Sheena Island that had showed him the true evil that was controlling this world, turning Africans against Lulzs and vice versa. That is why he had issued this day to be a free day for everyone in the name of peace and freedom. That is why the people had come to the Grand Square to hear the Caliph's speech. Nedim was wearing simple cloths not the usual robe of the Caliph but clothing that a common man would wear. He stepped out to the balcony and started.
"I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Caliph, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Arab, Christian, black man, white, yellow. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
Lulz has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate;
has sailed us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in:
Alliances that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical,
our cleverness hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little:
More than lulz we need humanity;
More than alliances we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The big ships and the skill of writing have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of lulz, the bitterness of men who fear the way of game progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. . .
Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, lulz men, with lulz minds and lulz hearts. You are not lulz. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.
In the seventeenth chapter of Prophet Mohammed it is written:
"The kingdom of God is within man"
Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people.
You the people have the power, the power to create lulz, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!"
The whole square full of people exploded in to applauses and hurrah shouts. Nedim knew that even though this speech had given his people hope and better understanding it would not be enough as there was evil on foot, an evil that would destroy what the Egyptians had build during. An evil that had been there from the start but had now consumed too many souls and made them fight each others. And Egypts only hope of survival of this storm was Morso, it only could save them but the events in Sheena Island had forced Nedim to do something he now regretted. If only he would have left the Morso leave the island the evil would be destroyed. But now Nedims only hope was to prepare his people to protect their homes and their lands from this evil even if it meant that they would die in the progress but the Egyptians were ready for that.