Caliphate

By: Tom Kratman

Narrated by: Richard James

"Slavery is a part of Islam.... Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." (Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan, author of the religious textbook At-Tawhid)

Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century, European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned, or crucified. Such Christians as remain are relegated to dhimmitude, a form of second-class citizenship. They are denied arms, denied civil rights, denied a voice, and specially taxed via the Koranic yizya. Their sons are taken as conscripted soldiers while their daughters are subject to the depredations of the continent's new masters. In that world, Petra, a German girl sold into prostitution as a slave at the age of nine to pay her family's yizya, dreams of escape. Unlike most girls of the day, Petra can read. And in her only real possession, her grandmother's diary, a diary detailing the fall of European civilization, Petra has learned of a magic place across the sea: America.

©2008 Tom Kratman (P)2020 Recorded Books

Interesting future

Kratman gets back to crusafiction again, I think he may have a contractual obligation for this.

A good listen, interesting and plenty of action

fantastic and thought provoking short read

The theme alone, with the superimposition of Gabby's journal entries was enough to hook me. The investment in the characters kept me at the edge of me seat. Nearing the end I kept thinking "dammit Kratman don't make this a trajedy". What can I say, I'm a sucker for happy endings.