Your comment spurred a thought.
Revelation 17:9 states: "And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits."
Is this literal or figurative?
In context of Revelation, it would make sense that this is figurative. We know that the image of a woman is biblically figurative for a church, nation or congregation.
We also know that mountains can represent governments or kings in biblical metaphor.
This passage is asking us to have wisdom here, and it is possible this depiction is of a 'church' or people that 'sit' upon or are supported by seven governments of men, not literal hills.
An Islamic Caliphate is made up of more than just one nation of people. Seven governments that may give this 'congregation/church' a position upon it's back.
Islam is and always has been a theocratic construct. Both medieval Catholicism and Islam share in their power being granted by thrones or governments. Both are willing to sell themselves for power's sake. Both share in the blood of saints.
I'm not solid on this interpretation, but given the time in which we now live and IF the End of the Age is near - then I'm looking at the signs of the times and wondering how they might fit into what scripture says is shortly to be upon the whole world.
Chrislam gives me pause to reconsider my own position on this subject.
Is Washington DC the City of 7 Hills, the Endtimes Babylon City?