Posted on 02/26/2006 9:42:17 AM PST by ml/nj
Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, preaching to Moslem masses on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday, has brought it out into the open: the call to restore the Moslem Khalifate, or, "Genuine Islamic Rule."
A plan for the "Return of the Khalifate" was published secretly in 2002 by a group called "The Guiding Helper Foundation." The group explained that it wished to "give direction to the educated Muslim populace in its increasing interest in the establishment of Islam as a practical system of rule."
This past Friday, Feb. 24, however, the plan went public. Sheikh Nawahda called publicly for the renewal of the Islamic Khalifate, which would "unite all the Moslems in the world against the infidels."
The Khalifate system features a leader, known as a Khalif, who heads worldwide Islam. Assisted by a ten-man council, his decisions are totally binding on all Moslems.
According to the Foundation's vision of the Khalifate, significant punishment can only be meted out for 14 crimes, including "accusing a chaste person of fornication," "not performing the formal prayer," and "not fasting during Ramadan."
The Foundation recommends working to restore the Moslem dictatorship using a system of small groups around the world. The purpose is so that the "enemies of Islam" who "will definitely try to stop us" will have a "much harder task, if not impossible, if they are faced with a myriad of small groups of differing locations, ethnicities," etc. This method also "ensures that if one group... is found and cut off, other similar groups will remain undetected."
Sheikh Nawahda reminded his Temple Mount audience that the first step taken by Muhammed in stabilizing his rule was to form the nucleus of the first Islamic country in the city of Medina. Nawahda also said that the status of Moslems around the world has dropped drastically ever since the collapse of the last Khalifate in 1924, after Turkey became a democratic republic.
Nawahda called upon the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority to rise above their personal and party interests, and said that Moslems must return to Islam and join forces in the struggle against the West. He praised the worldwide protests against the anti-Muhammed cartoons, and encouraged the Moslem public to continue such activities. He implied that those who insulted Muhammed are liable for death. The Sheikh designated the Moslem masses as a strong point that can be utilized in the fight against the West.
Maybe for starters they should establish just one single muslim country that isn't a murderous, barbaric hellhole.
A new Khalifate?
That's so 15th century.
You and whose Army?
I think in the imam's usage, worldwide governs Islamic, not rule. The Sunnis regarded all Muslims as citizens of the Caliphate, whether they lived within the boundaries under its control or not.
The Shi'ites won't be pleased by this plan--they regard the Caliphs (after the fourth) as usurpers. (Indeed if we could get rid of the lunatics running Iran, Shi'ites would be our natural allies against al Qaeda, which is part of the 'restore the Caliph' crowd.)
For them, coexistence is shared sacrifice, while tolerance becomes mutual suffering; only extermination remains a goal.
Not to worry. God (the real God) wins in the end.
Good question!
According to the OED, the two terms are interchangable. The first usage example they give for Muslim is from 1615. The first example for Moslem is from 1788 (from Gibbon's Decline and Fall BTW).
ML/NJ
Me?!
I think one of their plans is to f#%K their way to dominence while we sleep.
ML/NJ
Don't tell the libertarians. They'll sign on for this reason alone.
Of course, they'll not be able to agree on which 14 ....
Of course the liberals will tell us that there is no clash of cultures and that it is only extremists that view it that way...of course the fact that this is the leader of the mosque at the 3rd most "important" site for 1.3 Billion muslims couldn't possibly be mainstream.
To quote Aragorn...war is upon you, rather you'd chose it or not.
And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns.
Revelation 13:1 KJV
The line between ape and man is getting smaller and smaller. We know now that baboons can use tools; now we know they can speak--and write as well.
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It's time for Israel to take control of the the Temple Mount back from the Wakf and apply the same laws against incitement they apply everywhere else.
Sheikh Nawahda called publicly for the renewal of the Islamic Khalifate, which would "unite all the Moslems in the world against the infidels."
I think I saw this movie once , it was called Planet of the Apes
Geez....just google and the doc pops up as a PDF.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
make that islamic darkness. RR speaking to us from beyond.
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