January 2007 With the housing market crashed, the 2006 Christmas shopping season is the worst since records have been kept. Unemployment rises to 6.8 %.

March 2007 Elections in Iraq run smoothly. Minimum bloodshed. More troops are withdrawn. The U.S. budget and trade deficit continues to soar..

August 2007 Muslim American Friendship League founded with 1 billion dollar grant from anonymous donor. League funds clubs in junior high schools and high schools across the country "to foster better understanding between Muslims and the future leaders of America." The League is denounced by conservative talk radio, called a "Trojan Horse dragged into the heart of America.".

September 2007 The low-priced Chinese-manufactured Sun becomes the best selling car in America. Unemployment is 7.6% .

October 2007 Faisal Rachman, superstar slugger for the New York Yankees and a devout Muslim, refuses to break his Ramadan fast during the World Series. The Yankees lose 4-1 to the Boston Red Sox. Rachman receives hundreds of death threats. Five of Rahman's teammates publicly convert to Islam, and are released by team ownership. They are quickly signed by the newly named Detroit Crescents..

October 2007 Muslim Media Alliance formed to more effectively share the truth of Islam to U.S. politicians, media personnel and decision makers. First conference held on a lavish private estate on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Three hundred invited guests and their families spend a week at the estate, all expenses paid. Three network anchors refuse to attend, calling the event a "more propaganda than programming." The fourth network anchor broadcasts live from the event, and sees a twenty-three percent rise in her ratings. The last day of the conference is carried commercial free by all four major networks..

December 2007 Faisal Rachman murdered by demented fan who had wagered and lost heavily on the New York Yankees in the World Series. Rachman's funeral at the Grand Mosque of New York is covered live on all networks. The President and First Lady attend..

February 2008 Modern Muslim Television, a national cable network debuts. It is a free service, featuring popular music videos, interviews with sports heroes and newsmakers, and state of the art graphics. MMTV receives wide coverage in the news media and soon overtakes MTV as choice of young Americans..

June, 2008 last U.S./Coalition forces leave Iraq. U.S. unemployment rate is 9.7%.

July 2008 Time magazine does cover story on Islam, the fastest-growing religion in the United States..

August 2008 Small gold crescent appears on over two thousand food items found in supermarkets and grocery chains. The crescent indicates that the food or beverage so marked has been declared "halal," fitting all Islamic dietary principles. Jihad Cola debuts. Its market share is small initially, but it grows rapidly, particularly after it is denounced by the host of a Christian television network..

September 2008 Series of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes devastate Gulf of Mexico. All natural gas and oil production knocked offline for at least six months. Gasoline spikes to $7 a gallon. Heating oil/gas heat supplies for winter imperiled. Riots and murders at gas lines across the country. The National Council of Churches issues an official proclamation suggesting parishioners wear two sweaters during the winter. Local mosques open their doors to all, offering warm living quarters and hot food. Iraqi and Saudi Arabian governments pledge to supply U.S. with all fuel it needs at below-market cost, in recognition of "our duty to our Christian friends and fellow Muslims within the U.S." Gas lines subside. The National Council of Churches purge their leadership but do not change their all talk-no action stance on problems facing their congregations. .

October 2008 teen rock group records "One God, One Heart," a thank-you to the Iraqi and Saudi people. Song debuts at #5, quickly goes to #1 and stays there through Ramadan and Christmas. Unemployment still hovers over nine percent..

October 2008 Detroit Crescents win the World Series..

October 2008 Derek Johnson, head of the Protestant Syndod urges tolerance and good will between people. He blames the breakdown of order and civility on "racism, sexism, ageism and homophobia," and urges Americans to "observe whatever religious beliefs they desire within the confines of their own home, and not bring them into the common world where others may be offended." .

November 2008 Muslim businessman Jack Kingsley elected to U.S. Senate..

November 2012 Lawrence Burns and Jack Kingsley elected President/Vice President in closest election in history. .

December 2012 President-Elect Lawrence Burns suffers massive heart attack..

January 2013 Jack Kingsley inaugurated, taking the oath of office with his hand on the Holy Qu'ran.

January 2013 Riots break out across the country at the ascendancy of Kingsley. Mosques are torched across the South. Cable news anchors issue unsubstantiated reports of Islamic women being raped, and rumors of Catholic priests resorting to cannibalism. Clips of a CBS news anchor breaking down in tears are downloaded on the internet to much amusement.

February 7, 2013 Jill Stanton declares her conversion to Islam while onstage, receiving the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her declaration coincides with her announcement of marriage to Mukumbe Otan, a devout Muslim, and center for the Los Angeles Lakers.

February 10, 2013 Shania McCartney, the most-popular country music recording star in the world, declares her conversion to Islam at the Grand Ol' Opry, and changes her name to Shania X. Within a week, three major movie stars convert, followed by the entire ensemble cast of the top rated television series, necessitating a radical shift of the story line. These high profile conversions create a cascade effect, and within months, tens and then hundreds of thousands of young people are crowding the mosques and studying the holy Qu'ran.

April 2013 Derek Johnson announces his conversion to Islam, and changes his name to Derek Ali. Blames the breakdown of order and civility on "the inability of churches to define right and wrong and act accordingly." Ali states that truth does exist and it can be found in the pages of the Holy Qu'ran.

November 2014 Eight Muslims are elected to the U.S. Senate. Eighty-seven Muslims are elected to the House of Representatives.

May 19, 2015 Suitcase nukes detonate in NYC, Washington D.C. and Mecca. Islamic radicals are initially blamed.

May 25, 2015 Richard Allen Goldberg confesses on national tv to being part of the Mossad team that detonated the suitcase nukes in NYC, Washington D.C. and Mecca, hoping to have blame fall on Islamic radicals, and thereby tilt the U.S. government away from what it views as a drift towards the Islamic world.

June 2015 Collapse of U.S. economy. Financial databases are lost in NYC, widespread looting across country, Jews targeted. Armed forces fragment along religious lines, Christians defending Christians, Muslims defending Muslims. Surviving politicians opt for demagoguery and demand for power to be placed in their hands. Food and gasoline in short supply. Electricity intermittent. Breadlines return. Mosques and churches burned. Priests and Imams hung by rampaging mobs.

June 2015 Fedayeen created, elite Muslim warriors with the best equipment available, totally loyal to the President.

June 2015 United Nations, now based in Geneva, Switzerland, is stopped from a declaration of war on Israel only by the veto of Russia. The Jewish population of Israel begins a massive exodus to Russia and gives up all territorial claims to its former territory, now called Palestine.

July 2015 There is a religious migration going on in the U.S. too, as millions of Christians flee to the old Bible Belt by any means available, while Muslims flee the Bible Belt for the northern states.

September 2015 Civil war declared between Bible Belt and the former Northern United States, now the Islamic Republic. Seattle is named the capital of the Islamic republic, Atlanta designated the capital of the Bible Belt.

October 2015 Chicago devastated by air strikes from bases in the Bible Belt.

October 2015 Detroit auto works devastated by terrorist bombs planted by Bible Belt partisans.

December 2015 Nevada Free State set up, independent of all other nations. A financial and entertainment center with its capital in Las Vegas.

January 2016 South Florida secedes from both sides of conflict, declares itself an unaligned territory - Cuba Libre.

February 2016 Mormon territories of Utah and Southern Colorado secede. The Islamic Republic does not recognize their secession and vows to continue the fight to keep them in the republic.

February 2016 Derek Ali becomes Mullah of Black Robes, the national religious police. Sets up headquarters in San Francisco. Since the Holy Qu'ran states that homosexuality is a heinous sin, Ali orders death to all homosexuals. Fighting rages for weeks and much of the city is destroyed, but by Summer, Ali declares the city "cleansed of iniquity."

March/April 2016 Desperate for victory, both sides used biologic weapons. St. Louis, Phoenix, Dallas and Pittsburgh are rendered plague hotspots and quarantined for at least fifty years. Both sides agree to ban the use of chemical, atomic or biologic weapons.

November 2016 Climactic battle of Newark (second Gettysburg) leads to cease fire.

April 15, 2016 Formal cease fire signed between governments of Islamic Republic and Bible Belt. All travel between the two nations is restricted. Armies are stationed along the borders. All diplomatic contact between the two countries is carried out in the neutral city of Las Vegas, within the Nevada Free State.

2018 Derek Ali and the Black Robes challenge President Kingsley's tolerance of Catholics. Ali demands that the same strict fundamentalist structures he has applied in San Francisco be applied nationally. Kingsley refuses.

May 2020 James Dougan, first State Security chief assassinated. (Agents of the Bible Belt are blamed, but the Wise Old One is actually responsible).

May 2020 Katherine Dougan, wife of James Dougan, flees immediately after his assassination, leaving her daughter Sarah behind. She is widely believed to have been involved in the murder of her husband. Her whereabouts remain unknown.

May 2020 Redbeard assumes command of State Security. Wipes out everyone connected to the assassination of his brother, James Dougan. Hundreds are executed, not all of them guilty, but the Old One's plans to takeover the government are halted.

2040---Events of PRAYERS FOR THE ASSASSIN take place.