Removal

A God-Dilemma Chronicle

A world suddenly awakes to the death of its entire Muslim population (REMOVAL); versus a world awakening to the survival of only the Muslim population (REVELATION). How will each new world react to the loss of 1.7 or 6.3 billion people overnight? Are these God-events or man-made, and will there now be world peace, or chaos?

REMOVAL

'Mr President, we have been getting reports from all over the world, that there is something horrendous and unprecedented occurring, that we can't explain. The information has been spreading via social media, and every global news station, despite major disruptions and transmission delays. We thought it was a hoax, some viral attack, and we frankly didn't believe it, with lots of social media outlets being accused of some outrageous scam, but...' she hesitated.

             'Just tell me, don't paraphrase it. What the hell has you two so agitated?'

             'Mr President, as ridiculous and awful as this may sound to you, we believe there's been a mass death of all Muslims in the world...'

So begins a new era for the remaining population and religions. But peace and prosperity prove elusive as the survivors seek answers to the tragedy. Suspicion, greed, fear, religious rivalry and competition for supremacy create havoc, outweighing the supposed 'benefits' of a decreased world population and increased spiritual belief.

When a second phase of Removals occurs, Duncan Sinclair, the President's National Security Advisor, is tasked with investigating these phenomena before a third wave occurs, whilst the world simmers on the brink.

As the world comes to terms with the unexplained mass death of only one religion's followers, being Muslims, the surviving religions seek to categorise themselves as the 'chosen one/s', which leads to further conflict and intolerance. Later, more 'Removals' occur, starting with people seemingly involved in cruelty crimes, such as rape, murder, domestic violence, paedophilia etc. When this becomes more widely accepted by people that see its implications - police officers, senior bureaucrats, actuaries, statisticians, social scientists etc., the United States Government puts a multinational small team together to determine, in advance, any clues to a potential third wave of 'Removals' before that might occur.

Elsewhere across the world, some regimes become involved in their own religious ethnic cleansing, fearful that their preferred religion or belief system might be targeted too. This leads to global conflicts between some nations until a general calm can be reintroduced.

Separately, over time, a shift towards environmentalism seems to be occurring, away from organised religions. Then religious leaders start to fall into comas, and the world waits and wonders what this means for faith.