Rashidun Imam of Arabia

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Arabia, a territory that had long been torn apart with strife and foreign interests controlling large sections of the Peninsula through private Business Enterprises, using the local tribes for protection and to push their claims. The Riches of the Peninsula, and the natural resources were being stripped from the lands, and their overlords left the people poor, battered, and broken. All attempts to push out the foreign invaders, and their warlords were crushed with savagery that would have shocked the larger world, but was kept silent due to control of what information left there.

 

That all changed when the Rashidun Imam Ali Yasin came out of the An Nafud Desert on Camels back with a band of warriors in tow. No one knew where they had come from, what tribe they were from, or even why. The City of Hail was where they went, and on the way there were often asked,  "Who are you and where do you go armed such?", they would reply, "We are Arab, and we go to Liberate Hail." they would then get the questions in reply, "What tribe is Arab? And how do you plan to liberate Hail, with so few, when so many have tried in the past?" They would always give the same reply. "We are all Arab, you, me, everyone you can see, only our overlords are not Arab. And we will liberate it, because it is Allahs will."

 

No one could figure out how they did it, but what is remembered is that they waited until a few hours before morning, caught the artillery position sleeping and took the guns from them. They left enough men to operate it as they came down from the positions and just as the sun broke over the sky they opened fire onto military encampments of the occupiers. In an hour the guns had gone silent and the flags had been torn down from the city, and the Rashidun Imam was raising a new flag over the city, the flag that would become the flag to represent a singular people, instead of a collection of tribes, to represent a United, Strong, and Free Arabia.

 

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Word of the fall of Hail had spread quickly as every person in Arabia had begun to talk about it, and the word of the fall of Hail brought much alarm to the other controlling interests. Never before had an entire city fallen to revolutionaries. Some were more worried than others, some had thought that they had only had to starve the people of Hail out, and the revolt would quickly be stopped, while others thought that the best way to deal with it was to wipe the area clean. But what they weren't aware of that the idea of a singular Arabia, an the idea that the Rashidun Imam had begun to spread and tell the people was catching on like wild fire, and it was spreading everywhere.  Many young men flocked to his banner as he marched south, seizing towns, weapons, ammunition, and artillery. Before anything major could be done to this growing Arab Revolt as the foreign controllers called it, they had arrived outside of Najran. The arrival at Najran caught them completely by surprise, and the city fell quickly as the Arabs overran machine gun nests, while the people of the city that rose up to join the Revolution, took the big guns.

 

With that news, the Foreign Interests began to spend huge sums of money on shoring up their defenses as well as getting everything of value off the Peninsula, it was becoming very apparent that the revolt might actually hold its course and eventually push them all out. The March would continue south, town after town, village after village, city after city would fall, the resounding cheer "Rashidun Imam" whenever he liberated people would began to be cheered, that is how he got his name, he had never called himself that, the people called him that because he was seen as a holy liberator. 

 

The Revolt would eventually reach the Ocean, as it would sweep through the territory of Yemen, and begin its trek across the coast, heading towards the territory of Oman. The Arab Flag would be raised over many cities and ports, giving a presence to the world that the Arabs were becoming a free an independent nation, and nothing would stop them from gaining it.

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With Yemen, Oman, and the Interior secured, the Revolutionary leaders made their way to Riyadh to discuss their great victory. in a large chamber with a large circular table laid out the council was arguing among themselves on how to run the nation. Rashidun Imam would remain silent for a while before standing up and pointing to a map. "How can we say we are an Arabian nation when Qatar and Bahrain are not free, and the people there still continue to suffer?" The assembly would go quiet before someone would ask how they could be taken, with Persia controlling the coastline that was closest to there, and none of the cities were close enough to stage an effective assault against Qatar or Bahrain, and the coastal Guns of Qatar would prevent any kind of naval invasion. "We will march through the desert, seize Al Hofuf from the North where they would never expect an invasion, then we shall sweep through Qatar, and turn the Coastal Guns onto Bahrain." 

 

Many though he was crazy, and they said it would be done, but within a month, the territory had been liberated and Rahsidun Imam Ali Yasin was heralded as a great victor as he marched through the streets of Riyadh, the new capital of the Free and United Arab State. Now that the easy work of gaining freedom had been done, the hard part of creating a nation had begun.