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 institution’s 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.