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The History Of The Philippines As Told By Tom Anthony
explosives had rolled slowly down the hill, crashing through the door
below a Star of David. Mahir was careful to push the button on the
remote control a microsecond after, when only the foreign Zionists were
near the car. He wanted to make sure that no innocent countrymen of
his would be hurt. Mahir told his friend, "We want our patriots to
understand the strle. Then all of them will join in jihad."
Back in the spring of 2004 when Mahir was working in the only tire
store the Turkish European Trading Company had been able to hold on
to, Gregory P. Mount, the vice president for marketing at Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company, came to Istanbul with his wife and son,
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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. philippines history
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