Return of the Caliphate
What are we to make of the War Of Terrorism being waged by Muslims today in all parts of the world? What is their plan and ultimately what is their final destination? Why must the Islamic states continue to wage this asymmetric war of attrition with all of the peoples of the earth? Russia, Europa, America, Asia and Africa have come into conflict with the followers of Muhammad not only historically but even now in the 21st Century Muhammadans are stretching forth their mailed fist to beat back Babylon the Great in their attempt to break free from the chains of economic, political, cultural and religious amalgamation. Muslim states are too weak to attack their neighbors conventionally and have thus adapted to their inherent institutional weaknesses for waging war by means of sowing terror. This is the only successful means of waging "jihad" that fulfills their Islamic precepts since their founding in the mid-7th Century AD.
Globalization though friendly towards all cultures around the world is still Europe-centric as their ideas still radiate outwards from the Old World. Most nations have accepted in some form either economically and/or politically the yoke of a European model to govern their subject peoples and thus their own cultures have indeed been subsumed to a higher and "alien" order. The only area in the world that has been reluctant if not hostile to embrace this 21st Century phenomenon has been Al Arabia. The United States of America may be the lone superpower but clearly there are other state actors who are consolidating their own power blocs to compete not only with the Atlantic Alliance (USA and Europe) but also with other regional powers now coming into fruition. Al Arabia is just such one bloc.
Despite their constant treachery, the Islamic peoples can and will unite once more under one flag to fight against this new global hegemonic order. However, it will be the Sunni branch of Islam that will form a distinctly Sunni axis of opposition from Western Africa to the Euphrates in the East and from Anatolia in the North to the Arabian peninsula in the South. I believe the center of this Sunni Axis will be established in Egypt. I also believe there is more to the "dynamic duo" of Al Qaida than meets the eye in that both Ayman Al Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden represent two sides of one coin. Zawahiri is Egyptian by birth and forms the political side of Al Qaida. Bin Laden on the other hand forms the religious side as he is Saudi Arabian by birth. In Islam even though the political is fused to the religious the division of power is seen throughout their history as the political capitol is always located away from the religious capital of Mecca. Since the incarnation of Islam, the caliphates (political capitol) were located in Syria (Omayyad), Baghdad (Abbasid), Egypt (Fatimid) and finally in Turkey (Ottoman). So as goes Al Quaida so goes Islamic history as both Zawahiri and Bin Laden are the shadows and point men for this dual relationship of both political and spiritual entities within Islam.
I also believe Egypt will the next home of the Caliphate because it is here that we saw the birth of International Islamic Terrorism with the advent of the first Moslem terror group, the Egypitan based Muslim Brotherhood. This group was formed in 1928 just 4 years after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and has since been waging their own kind of "Jihad" to reestablish the guardian of the Umma. It should also be noted that in the West it was the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) that became notorious with International Terrorism in the late '60's under Yassir Arafat and he too hailed from Egypt. Terrorism is the new form of Jihad since clearly the Moslem peoples, both Sunni and Shia, are too inept at conventional warfare especially that kind of warfare gelled to perfection in the West as the Arab-Israeli Wars proved so painful. They may have bought our weapons but money cannot buy experience and discipline. Thus, in order to fulfill the tenants of their warlike religion they have resorted to national and international terrorism (unconventional warfare) to expand their control against the pro-western regimes that currently rule over them such as Mubarak in Egypt and the House of Saud in Arabia and the late Shah of Iran for example and recently against their neighbors internationally on all continents of the world. Since international terrorism is the new tactic of Jihad therefore, it is Egypt and the Egyptians (spiritually Saudi Arabia gets the credit as it is the home of Mecca & Medina) that will get the political credit for "spreading" Islam to all parts of the world, albeit in a weaker form than what conventional warfare can deliver as was the case during the initial rise of Islam in the 7th Century AD as conventional warfare was the means of "evangelical" delivery of its faith so long ago.
Turkey, on the other hand, will be denied as the home to a reestablished Caliphate due to their lack of faith as evidenced by Kemal Ataturk and his historical heresy of disbanding the Ottoman Caliphate. However, I also believe that Turkey in spite of its past sins could still be accepted into this resurrected Caliphate as one of the great diadems in the crown of the Umma. Turkey will not be accepted into the European Union for obvious cultural and religious reasons despite its appetite for all things Western and being a member of NATO. Thus, Turkey will have no where to go but into the arms of an Egyptian-based Caliphate. A note of caution, however, should be sounded in that the Turks may not be able to "de-base" themselves by allowing Egyptians to guide them into the future and so its possible that Turkey may in fact be left to its own devices neither belonging to the European Union nor being able to be fully assimilated into a future Caliphate. This in and of itself would be a dangerously weakened hinge by which an enemy of Islam would be able to breakdown the door into the Middle East rather easily should a future Caliphate come to blows against a northern aggressor namely Mother Russia.
The Shia on the other hand are the heretics of Islam as far as the Sunni are concerned. Hence their hatred for their erstwhile brethren in Iran. But here too we see how Shia terrorists borrowed from the Sunni's Muslim Brotherhood and managed to overthrow a "pro-western" regime in Tehran in 1979 under the Ayatollahs with a little help from the incompetent administration of Jimmy Carter. And yet, for the first time in its Islamic history, Iran will NOT be included in the next Caliphate as fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamic doctrine will preclude them from joining their "commonwealth". This will be the Caliphate's Achilles Heel as a independent and nuclear Persia will strike out on its own and in what ways we can only speculate but perhaps Russia once again may provide a clue to the future? We shall see.
As stated here many times since the disastrous U.S. mid-term election in 2006 with Republicans routed from power in both the House and Senate, the War On Terror has come to an ignominious end. It appears that with the shift in political parties in Washington that it is only a matter of time(perhaps less than a year) before American troops are withdrawn from Iraq and ultimately from the entire Middle East in the future as the Democrat party clearly has no stomach for wars of liberation as they once did between the time of Woodrow Wilson in 1917 and JFK in 1960. Thus with America out of the Middle East, a power vacuum will exist and since nature abhors a vacuum it will certainly be filled by a new political entity, a Sunni Caliphate.
Globalization though friendly towards all cultures around the world is still Europe-centric as their ideas still radiate outwards from the Old World. Most nations have accepted in some form either economically and/or politically the yoke of a European model to govern their subject peoples and thus their own cultures have indeed been subsumed to a higher and "alien" order. The only area in the world that has been reluctant if not hostile to embrace this 21st Century phenomenon has been Al Arabia. The United States of America may be the lone superpower but clearly there are other state actors who are consolidating their own power blocs to compete not only with the Atlantic Alliance (USA and Europe) but also with other regional powers now coming into fruition. Al Arabia is just such one bloc.
Despite their constant treachery, the Islamic peoples can and will unite once more under one flag to fight against this new global hegemonic order. However, it will be the Sunni branch of Islam that will form a distinctly Sunni axis of opposition from Western Africa to the Euphrates in the East and from Anatolia in the North to the Arabian peninsula in the South. I believe the center of this Sunni Axis will be established in Egypt. I also believe there is more to the "dynamic duo" of Al Qaida than meets the eye in that both Ayman Al Zawahiri and Osama Bin Laden represent two sides of one coin. Zawahiri is Egyptian by birth and forms the political side of Al Qaida. Bin Laden on the other hand forms the religious side as he is Saudi Arabian by birth. In Islam even though the political is fused to the religious the division of power is seen throughout their history as the political capitol is always located away from the religious capital of Mecca. Since the incarnation of Islam, the caliphates (political capitol) were located in Syria (Omayyad), Baghdad (Abbasid), Egypt (Fatimid) and finally in Turkey (Ottoman). So as goes Al Quaida so goes Islamic history as both Zawahiri and Bin Laden are the shadows and point men for this dual relationship of both political and spiritual entities within Islam.
I also believe Egypt will the next home of the Caliphate because it is here that we saw the birth of International Islamic Terrorism with the advent of the first Moslem terror group, the Egypitan based Muslim Brotherhood. This group was formed in 1928 just 4 years after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and has since been waging their own kind of "Jihad" to reestablish the guardian of the Umma. It should also be noted that in the West it was the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) that became notorious with International Terrorism in the late '60's under Yassir Arafat and he too hailed from Egypt. Terrorism is the new form of Jihad since clearly the Moslem peoples, both Sunni and Shia, are too inept at conventional warfare especially that kind of warfare gelled to perfection in the West as the Arab-Israeli Wars proved so painful. They may have bought our weapons but money cannot buy experience and discipline. Thus, in order to fulfill the tenants of their warlike religion they have resorted to national and international terrorism (unconventional warfare) to expand their control against the pro-western regimes that currently rule over them such as Mubarak in Egypt and the House of Saud in Arabia and the late Shah of Iran for example and recently against their neighbors internationally on all continents of the world. Since international terrorism is the new tactic of Jihad therefore, it is Egypt and the Egyptians (spiritually Saudi Arabia gets the credit as it is the home of Mecca & Medina) that will get the political credit for "spreading" Islam to all parts of the world, albeit in a weaker form than what conventional warfare can deliver as was the case during the initial rise of Islam in the 7th Century AD as conventional warfare was the means of "evangelical" delivery of its faith so long ago.
Turkey, on the other hand, will be denied as the home to a reestablished Caliphate due to their lack of faith as evidenced by Kemal Ataturk and his historical heresy of disbanding the Ottoman Caliphate. However, I also believe that Turkey in spite of its past sins could still be accepted into this resurrected Caliphate as one of the great diadems in the crown of the Umma. Turkey will not be accepted into the European Union for obvious cultural and religious reasons despite its appetite for all things Western and being a member of NATO. Thus, Turkey will have no where to go but into the arms of an Egyptian-based Caliphate. A note of caution, however, should be sounded in that the Turks may not be able to "de-base" themselves by allowing Egyptians to guide them into the future and so its possible that Turkey may in fact be left to its own devices neither belonging to the European Union nor being able to be fully assimilated into a future Caliphate. This in and of itself would be a dangerously weakened hinge by which an enemy of Islam would be able to breakdown the door into the Middle East rather easily should a future Caliphate come to blows against a northern aggressor namely Mother Russia.
The Shia on the other hand are the heretics of Islam as far as the Sunni are concerned. Hence their hatred for their erstwhile brethren in Iran. But here too we see how Shia terrorists borrowed from the Sunni's Muslim Brotherhood and managed to overthrow a "pro-western" regime in Tehran in 1979 under the Ayatollahs with a little help from the incompetent administration of Jimmy Carter. And yet, for the first time in its Islamic history, Iran will NOT be included in the next Caliphate as fundamentalist Wahhabi Islamic doctrine will preclude them from joining their "commonwealth". This will be the Caliphate's Achilles Heel as a independent and nuclear Persia will strike out on its own and in what ways we can only speculate but perhaps Russia once again may provide a clue to the future? We shall see.
As stated here many times since the disastrous U.S. mid-term election in 2006 with Republicans routed from power in both the House and Senate, the War On Terror has come to an ignominious end. It appears that with the shift in political parties in Washington that it is only a matter of time(perhaps less than a year) before American troops are withdrawn from Iraq and ultimately from the entire Middle East in the future as the Democrat party clearly has no stomach for wars of liberation as they once did between the time of Woodrow Wilson in 1917 and JFK in 1960. Thus with America out of the Middle East, a power vacuum will exist and since nature abhors a vacuum it will certainly be filled by a new political entity, a Sunni Caliphate.
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