Black Robes call for day of national prayer and fasting

Cubi: 'Honor the men who keep Islam pure'

CLEVELAND, Ohio (RWN) - Darren Cubi, the head of the Black Robes in the Midwest, has requested a national day for prayer for Black Robes who have fallen in the line of duty.

"These men have made the highest sacrifice in our religion," Cubi said yesterday, "and though they are with perfumed virgins in heaven, we should do something for them on earth."

Just this year, Cubi has lost four of his officers responsible for enforcing religious practices. Mustafa Zacour, a Black Robe officer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was killed in January while investigating whether a company's food products labeled as "halal," are safe for Muslims. He was found stabbed to death outside a food distribution warehouse. No one has been arrested in connection with the murder.

Rigel Ibn-Abtu, a Black Robe officer in Cleveland, was beaten to death in July by a husband who did not appreciate Ibn-Abtu's berating of his wife for not being properly submissive. The husband, Charles Ohu, has been sentenced to death.

Saladin Kenworthy, a Black Robe in Erie, Pennsylvania, was hit by a drunk driver while following an adulterous woman home from Erie's Zone in August.

Ismat Cubi, Darren Cubi's nephew and a Black Robe in New Detroit, was killed earlier this month while trying to enforce alcohol abstention rules at a speakeasy outside of the Detroit Zone.

"My nephew's presence on that list just makes it sadder," Darren Cubi said. "But all these men were good men, men of God. We should remember them. I am asking, not just for them, but for all of the Black Robes, that our nation take a day to remember these men as they should be remembered: as patriots of the faith."

Cubi has made outrageous proposals before, including attempting to get criminal arrest powers for his Black Robes. Like his other proposals, the day of fasting struck a dull chord with the modern community.

"Is he at it again?" asked Ken Hawbaker, Ohio's lieutenant governor and the highest-ranking modern in the state. "Darren just doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Are the Black Robes keepers of the faith? Yes. Do they go overboard in enforcing their views? Yes. Does that make them evil? Not necessarily. But it doesn't mean that we have to honor people whose views we don't agree with, either."


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