A fireman steps back from the rubble of a house that has just collapsed and killed two members of his engine company and three children who were trapped inside by the fire. With tears in his eyes, he laments out loud. "There is no living god who could allow this. If there is a god let him strike me down right here right now, too."


After several moments, a disheveled man in a a beard and Islamic prayer robe steps forward and strikes the fireman down, knocking him unconscious. "Allah was busy, so he sent me."