I Was Invited

I WAS INVITED is the literary outcome of an invitation
which this Author received from four Muslim young men while
riding in a mid-Manhattan elevator. Before he could decide on the
most beneficial from the flood of negative responses that presented
themselves, he arrived at his floor-destination, bade them a pleasant
good night and went on his way. As he lay on his bed that night
pondering his elevator encounter, it became clear to him that this
was the reason why God had navigated him towards this Shelter for
one of the briefest stays in the institutions history during the worst
Global Recession ever experienced: This was not an encounter
to be confined to five individuals in an elevator, but the seed of a
non-offensive literary vehicle that would both equip and inoculate
unsuspecting future invitees to join Islam. Islamists have boasted
that America is under siege: this book was written to be a positive,
peaceful factor in what is seen to be a negative global reality.