[MR] Templar challenges Osama

Tue Nov 4 10:56:37 PST 2003

I found this today, posted in the Pakistan Christian
Post. Anyone know who this guy is?

http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsdetails.php?newsid=398
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An Open Letter to Osama bin Laden: By Chevalier James
R. Reese, Grand Prior of the United States

Dear Osama, 

We have noted that you like to refer to America and
Great Britain as "Crusader states," and you have
referred to just about everybody you don't like as
Crusaders.

We doubt that you really believe there are any
Crusaders left, as we doubt that you really believe in
God. You would not taunt Crusaders if you really
believed in them, because you are a craven coward who
cherishes his own flesh while admonishing your
followers to blow themselves up. You are an infidel,
because no one who truly believes in God would
sanction the killing of innocent men, women, and
children. Your actions show you to be both a coward
and an infidel, because you ask your followers to do
what you are afraid to do, and you don't believe there
is a God who will condemn you for your vile actions
against Islam and humanity. 

Osama, you have been wrong on both counts. There is a
God, and there are Knights Templar who still serve Him
centuries after the Crusades. 

This Knight Templar calls you a craven coward and an
infidel. He calls you a murderer of the innocent, and
a defiler of holy places. He calls you the favorite
son of Satan, for you above all men on the earth have
done your best to do Satan's bidding. 

Not only that, but to prove to the entire world that
you are a coward and an infidel, this Knight Templar
challenges you to single combat in the sands of
Pakistan. I challenge you to meet me with scimitar or
sword, to be pitted against myself and a holy sword
consecrated to our Order-a sword that was forged to
destroy evil. Here's the deal: if I win, Al Qaeda is
disbanded-forever. If you win, then you can set the
head of a Knight Templar on a pike outside your tent,
and you can claim that you slew the chief of all
Crusaders in the United States. 

I call you out of the shadows to face me-and to face
your own fears. How long can you go on, hiding behind
women and sacrificing your followers, while you-the
spoiled son of a rich family-sit in safe houses and
eat rich food? How long can you live a lie, pretending
to be a jihadist when all you crave is to be the
sultan of a new Arab empire, an empire will be secular
and not Islamic? 

You could, of course, send your minions to kill me
before that combat occurs. But if you send others to
do your fighting for you, the news of your cowardice
will reverberate from the Kunjerab Pass to the beaches
of Gwydar, from Riyadh to Jakarta. It will be recorded
in the history books that the great Osama bin Laden,
the would-be leader of jihadists around the world,
quailed before a Crusader, and cried out for others to
save him. The name Osama will be equated with
cowardice before a Crusader, and no family will ever
so name a son again. You will be known as the
"Cowardly Infidel" who knew that he could not count
upon his personal courage or God to deliver him, for
he possessed a belief in neither. 

We know, Osama, that this message will reach you. You
can reply to it through Al-Jazeera, which is always
happy to act as the mouthpiece for murderers. In fact,
Al Jazeera can film the combat and show it on
television sets across the world. You would be
defeated before the eyes of millions, but at least you
would have retained a shred of personal honor. You
would at least have proved yourself to be a man, a
goal that has so far eluded you. 

If I win, it will be a victory for all persons who
believe in God and who know that the God of the Torah,
and of the Bible, and of the Quran is not a God who
directs the killing of women and children. If you win,
it will be a victory for the followers of Satan-but
Satan and his followers historically have not done
well when faced by Godly men and women. 

My prediction, however, is that you will ignore the
challenge. But be forewarned that your leadership will
first be questioned in whispers, then in hushed
conversations, and finally to your face. Your courage
will first be questioned, then disputed, and then
openly challenged. It will be the beginning of the end
for you. 

Your own followers will accomplish what your opponents
have not yet managed to accomplish, once they realize
that you are craven coward who always runs, but never
stands and fights. 

When we faced Saladin, we knew him to be a man of
honor, a man who kept his word. He similarly regarded
us as trustworthy, and our Order helped to broker a
peace between him and Richard the Lion Hearted. 

It is known by all Muslims that a Knight Templar never
broke his word. I promise you, as a Knight Templar,
that I will come to you alone, a single knight amidst
thousands of your followers. You can have me killed in
front of your followers . . . but then, of course,
your reputation as a coward and an infidel will be
sealed for all eternity. If you claim that your
followers killed me in defiance of your orders, then
you will be known as a weak leader who did not have
the respect of those he led. If you have me killed by
treachery, you will have shamed Saladin and all
Muslims who fought honorably in the past. Most
importantly, you will have shamed Islam, because you
have claimed to be acting in the name of the
Prophet-and you will then be known throughout all
eternity as the Anti-Prophet. 

A Knight Templar believes that to live for Christ is
glory, and to die for Him is gain. Let us step into
the arena, Osama, so that your followers can see what
it really is that you believe. 

And, because I know that you are horribly afraid to
die, I will offer you mercy if you ask for it. Knights
Templar observe the rules of chivalry, and I tell you
that it is merely your defeat as an agent of evil, and
not your death, that I seek. As a Christian, I still
have hope that you will forsake Satan and will follow
the path of peace and love. And truly, no one who
loves God can glory in the death of another human
being. 

You can see that I offer you at least a modicum of
mercy, which is much more than you offered the
innocent men, women, and children that you slew by
cowardly proxy on September 11th. 

I await your answer . . . ! 

--Chevalier James R. Reese 

Grand Prior of the United States

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