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- Qaradawi Says Declaration Of Caliphate ‘void Under Sharia’
Like Nico said, HERE. The Muslim Brotherhood vs. ISIS. Muslims fighting Muslims is Awesome, and this whole Caliphate thiing? Yeah, AWESOME! From the Tehran Times: Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has said that the declaration of a so-called Islamic...
- Isis Declares Itself Caliphate, Changes Name To “is” --- Calls On Al Qaeda To Join Them, Declares “international Jihad”
From RT: ISIS jihadists have declared the captured territories from Iraq’s Diyala province to Syria’s Aleppo a new Islamic State – a ‘caliphate.’ They removed ‘Iraq and the Levant’ from their name and urged other radical Sunni groups...
- The Caliphate Rising
Back in January 2006, I published this at my first blog site. Excerpt: From "Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical: Restoration of Caliphate, Attacked by Bush, Resonates With Mainstream Muslims," front-page article in the January 14, 2006...
- A New Caliphate
One of the arguments that some moderate Muslims have expoused is that violence is not permitted in their religion, unless mandated by the ruler of the Caliphate. It' s a claim that has been made to me during my internet travels on more than one occasion....
- Storm Track Disinformation: Who Speaks For Islam?
From The Gathering StormUNC-Chapel Hill sociologist, Charles Kurzman, wrote back in 2001“If you want the Catholic position on terrorism, ask the Vatican. If you want the Southern Baptist position, refer to the Executive Committee and the resolutions...
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Restoration of Caliphate Is Mainstream?
The following is from the Washington Post:
Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical
Restoration of Caliphate, Attacked by Bush, Resonates With Mainstream Muslims
"...The goal of reuniting Muslims under a single flag stands at the heart of the radical Islamic ideology Bush has warned of repeatedly in recent major speeches on terrorism. In language evoking the Cold War, Bush has cast the conflict in Iraq as the pivotal battleground in a larger contest between advocates of freedom and those who seek to establish 'a totalitarian Islamic empire reaching from Spain to Indonesia.'...
"Yet the caliphate is also esteemed by many ordinary Muslims. For most, its revival is not an urgent concern. Public opinion polls show immediate issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and discrimination rank as more pressing. But Muslims regard themselves as members of the umma, or community of believers, that forms the heart of Islam. And as earthly head of that community, the caliph is cherished both as memory and ideal, interviews indicate...."
"'I won't live to see it, and my children won't, but one day maybe my children's children will see someone declare himself the caliph, like the pope, and have an impact,' [said Kerem, a tailor in central Istanbul]...
"Caliph, from the Arabic word khalifa, means successor to the prophet Muhammad. Competition for the title caused the schism between Shiite and Sunni lines of the faith... "
Read the rest.
- Qaradawi Says Declaration Of Caliphate ‘void Under Sharia’
Like Nico said, HERE. The Muslim Brotherhood vs. ISIS. Muslims fighting Muslims is Awesome, and this whole Caliphate thiing? Yeah, AWESOME! From the Tehran Times: Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi has said that the declaration of a so-called Islamic...
- Isis Declares Itself Caliphate, Changes Name To “is” --- Calls On Al Qaeda To Join Them, Declares “international Jihad”
From RT: ISIS jihadists have declared the captured territories from Iraq’s Diyala province to Syria’s Aleppo a new Islamic State – a ‘caliphate.’ They removed ‘Iraq and the Levant’ from their name and urged other radical Sunni groups...
- The Caliphate Rising
Back in January 2006, I published this at my first blog site. Excerpt: From "Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical: Restoration of Caliphate, Attacked by Bush, Resonates With Mainstream Muslims," front-page article in the January 14, 2006...
- A New Caliphate
One of the arguments that some moderate Muslims have expoused is that violence is not permitted in their religion, unless mandated by the ruler of the Caliphate. It' s a claim that has been made to me during my internet travels on more than one occasion....
- Storm Track Disinformation: Who Speaks For Islam?
From The Gathering StormUNC-Chapel Hill sociologist, Charles Kurzman, wrote back in 2001“If you want the Catholic position on terrorism, ask the Vatican. If you want the Southern Baptist position, refer to the Executive Committee and the resolutions...