Three Invaders

For decades, politicians have debated and posed solutions for the troubled region we know as the “Middle East” to no avail. Professor Saleem Abdulrauf, a world-renowned American neurosurgeon with ancestral roots in the Arabian Peninsula, has developed innovative solutions in his field, and in this book, he applies his expertise to solving the mystery that is the “Middle East.”

Professor Abdulrauf has operated on hundreds of patients with complex brain tumors and aneurysms; the process of treating such life-threatening conditions involves a review of published data and critical analysis of available treatment options. In some cases, Professor Abdulrauf has had to think outside the box to develop new surgical techniques and instruments to cure his patients. He has learned to systematically and scientifically break down a problem to come up with effective solutions.

In Three Invaders, Professor Abdulrauf employs this strategy to evaluate the situation in the “Middle East” and present novel solutions. He shares with the reader omitted historical facts and provides insights into previously undisclosed geopolitics of popular culture—in particular, the 2,000-year cultural, military, and political history of the interaction among the peoples of the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), with a special focus on the past 100 years.

5 Vexing Questions the Author Answers in the Three Invaders:

Question 1: Back to the Future a film about time travel set in America’s 1950s, is one of the most iconic movies of a generation. Why did Steven Spielberg, in this science fiction movie, choose to make the bad guy an Arab character? In a recent survey, a Pittsburgh-based research firm posed the question “Should Americans, as part of their school curriculum, learn Arabic Numerals?”; 56% of the 3,200 respondents said no, and 15% had no opinion. Perhaps many among the respondents did not know that Arabic numerals are the numbers 0 to 9 which we use every day, reflecting a deep bias. How is this bias connected to the movie Back to the Future?

Question 2: Terrorists planted a bomb in the basement of a church, and in the ensuing explosion, four young girls—11-year-old Denise McNair, and three 14-year-olds, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley—were killed. This occurred on September 15, 1963, in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. The four girls who died that day were African American. The terrorists who committed the bombing were White Christian extremists belonging to the KKK, for whom this was the third terrorist bombing in Birmingham in 11 days. Why did the mainstream media never label these men terrorists and the KKK a terrorist organization?

Question 3: “Then there came to our places a large army, who killed many men and took me and brought me to the great sea and sold me into the hands of the Christians, who bound me and sent me on board a great ship and we sailed upon the great sea a month and a half . . . I reside in this our country by reason of great necessity. Wicked men took me by violence and sold me to the Christians.” This was written in Arabic on the wall of a jail cell in North Carolina by Omar ibn Said, who had been captured in Western Africa in 1807 and sold as a slave in the United States. Is slavery in the US yet another flashpoint in the interaction between Christianity and Islam? Were there forced conversions to Christianity? Why was the Bible used for proselytizing slaves, known as the Slave Bible, so heavily edited? Are there millions of Christian African Americans in the US today who are descendants of proud Muslim families from Western Africa?

Question 4: Spanish Christians call God Dios, French Christians call God Dieu, Arab Christians call God Allah, and Muslims call God Allah or Elah. In the US, whileDios and Dieu would be considered the same as God in English, many in the media and the public consider the term Allahto be a different entity than what they define as God. Why is that? Especially since Jesus, the son of Mary, who spoke Aramaic and not English, used the word Elaha for God, which is akin to the Arabic Allah or Elah. Jesus would not have even recognized the English word God

Question 5: The concentration camps for Muslims in China, the genocide of Muslims in Myanmar, the targeting of Muslims by Prime Minister Modi in India, the apartheid system for Muslims in the occupied territories of Israel; none of these would be tolerated singularly, let alone in combination, by world powers if the victims were Christians or Jews. Such a question was asked by Edward Luce of the Financial Times in January of 2020: “Imagine if China had incarcerated upwards of a million Christians. Or India said it would take all refugees except Christian ones. The west would be in a state of frenzy.” So why are these egregious acts tolerated by the world’s civilized societies and governments?

Bio:

Professor Saleem I. Abdulrauf is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who has performed over 2,000 complex brain surgeries. He is the neurosurgeon-in-chief of the Abdulrauf Institute of Neurosurgery™ and the founding chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is highly published academician and has served as a visiting professor to over 100 universities around the globe. Dr. Abdulrauf has developed a brain bypass surgical procedure as well as microsurgical instruments, both of which have been named after him. He has authored two textbooks in the field of neurosurgery, including the reference textbook for brain bypass surgery. Three Invaders is his first book written for the general public

Dr. Abdulrauf has always been interested in larger social and humanitarian issues. He co-authored a peer-reviewed article in 2019 which examined scientific proof of Nazi crimes against Jews during WWII titled “Crimes Against the Nervous System: Neurological References During the Nuremberg Trials.”

Dr. Abdulrauf’s ancestors hailed from the heart of Arabia in the region known as Hejaz, the birthplace of the Arab and Islamic civilizations. He grew up in the heart of the American Midwest, a region known for its traditional American spirit. This background and blend of cultures gives him a unique perspective on the larger issues discussed in this book.