The Priory's challenge to Osama Bin Laden.

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In the Sign of the Cross
Above the Altar of Incense
and under the Shadow of the Rose,

this decree is openly issued to Glory of the Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple by the Grand Prior of the United States, with approval of EVERY true knight of the illustrious order.

[spoil:3ef9a62f00]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[/spoil:3ef9a62f00]

Formalities aside, this man is not joking. Neither am I.

*this posting is symbolic of the Templar practice of openly posting challenged to the doors of the local pubs, socials, and drink houses.

Posted here by decree and authority, in my creed of L.M. as a Honor bound Knight and Herald of the Black Wing of "Stretch Forth and Conquer."

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Needs to be translated and read aloud to his ass....

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Wow...what an amazing and challenging letter

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it was issued in "every tongue of man" (english, french, german, arabic, hebrew, greek, and latin)

I am sure that Osama will not accept such a noble challenge as this, which is eminent of the challenge issued to Saladin, who did accept and did reign victorious.

and who was a noble leader. This is who Bin Laden favors himself to be which should be an insult greater to any Muslim than any Danish cartoons.

but the entirety of the Templars in the US unamimously agreed, as is the custom... and should by some fate, Bin Laden be seized with some rare honor to enter himself or a proxy in his ill health into this challenge, I know the Prior would make good on his word thus issued.

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You would be surprised that Osama can actually understand and read English. I'd bet he could speak it if he HAD to. However, I would gladly hand deliver that letter to him if I was given the chance.

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'bout time a duel was set up..... /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Let's GET IT AWNNN!!!!!!!

This isn't just a Templar practice. I call things out publicly anytime, makes people stand up and speak, or reveal the coward that they are. Just seems a natural tactic. It works.

and if they don't kill him, I'll be lurking about near the dark dingy spooky nuthouse where they'll hold him, lol

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i doubt that Osama will answer the challenge.

*is raum a member of the Priory?

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QUOTEis raum a member of the Priory?

short answer:

nope. I do not have the Cross, I have the meaning of the Cross.

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Raum,

Maybe we can run the Sniper course together and tell Osama there is a ham sandwich out there waiting for him. First one to pop him in his hairy ass wins.