The Islamic State has proven to be much more appealing to young Muslims in Western countries than al-Qaeda or other jihad terror groups ever were. As I have pointed out many times, this is because of the attraction of the idea of the caliphate, the supranational unity of the Muslims in a single state. Now the BBC has noticed, slipping this salient detail into the fourth paragraph of a generally accurate historical overview of the caliphate and its significance.
“What’s the appeal of a caliphate?,” BBC, October 25, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The last caliphate – that of the Ottomans – was officially abolished 90 years ago this spring. Yet in a 2006 Gallup survey of Muslims living in Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia and Pakistan, two-thirds of respondents said they supported the goal of “unifying all Islamic countries” into a new caliphate.
jewdog says
If the Caliph were a sort of Islamic Pope, a kind of spiritual leader, then this would not be a big deal. Instead, the Caliph is a political leader as well, and his rule is meant to impose Sharia on everyone, like it or not. That makes the Caliphate coercive, and a secular threat, something that Western leaders need to address, but don’t hold your breath.
Twostellas says
And then there the capturing of slaves for the caliphate…workers and sex slave harems, and then tribute of sons and jizya from Christians and Jews, well what’s left of them (that’s gonna be a problem for them, ISIS has just bout wiped them out there)….etc…these people are nuts and sick.
john spielman says
Hmmm, the next big question that comes up with a “unified caliphate’ will be the dress code! Will it be a mandatory Capri pants and turbans of the Taliban of Pakistan and Afghanistan, or the flowing robes and head scarves of Arabs ? Hmmmmm, to dress inapropriately could be fatal !
Champ says
As I have pointed out many times, this is because of the attraction of the idea of the caliphate, the supranational unity of the Muslims in a single state.
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With obama as their “caliph” …
john spielman says
i wonder how willing the Saudis in this supranational caliphate will be to share their oil wealth with the destitute poor muslims of Egypt Pakistan, Bangladesh etc, Somalia,
umbra says
Should the islamic world form a globally encompassing caliphate, it would likely go through a civil war first. The most brutal, most murderous and most treacherous islamic leader with the biggest army would emerged as the new caliph. One could only hope that such an event would literally bring the entire islamic world back to the 7th century – especially technologically and economically.
Twostellas says
Will Europeans be obliged to send their first born sons as tribute?
KrazyKafir says
Ahhhh another valuable and revealing poll that will be ignored.
ConnectingDots says
Wait, that guy has electricity? And he is using it?
Shame, shame! That doesn’t sound very Islamist!
Buraq says
A ‘phate worse than death!
Clowns!
Jeff says
Ben Affleck – This fact contradicts your faulty premise that
“a billion muslims are peaceful, law abiding etc.”
John Rowe says
For your Understanding, Why a Caliphate ?
Sykes–Picot Agreement of 1916 by France, UK, secretly with
Russia. It set the state to stop the Battles of ottoman
empire and Marine Leather necks (leather prevented head
chopping), stopped their Barbary pirate raids of slavery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
Problem – setup Palestine – and Land for Jerusalem & agreements.
The agreement is seen by many as a turning point in
Western–Arab relations. It negated the promises made to
Arabs through Colonel T. E. Lawrence for a national Arab
homeland in the area of Greater Syria, in exchange for their
siding with British forces against the Ottoman Empire.
The Islamic State (ISIS) claims one of the goals of its
insurgency is to reverse the effects of the Sykes–Picot
Agreement. This is not the first border we will break, we
will break other borders,” a jihadist from the ISIS warned in
the video called End of Sykes-Picot.[43] Islamic State’s
leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a July 2014 speech at the
Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul vowed that “this blessed
advance will not stop until we hit the last nail in the coffin
of the Sykes–Picot conspiracy”.
As a novelty ISIS has decided to take a run at world
dominance, by tracing the Ottoman Empire route to Europe where
America is at the end of the road, by way of India or Pakistan
(easy take-over) for Nuclear armament as a suspect, as is easy
to send across the pond to America.
Timing – When America now gets a USURPER President with Mixed
Loyalties not of Americanism but of Muslimism via a new Party
of Loyalties with the Democrat party, where the left lean is
with Obama in the ideology of UN sustained development Agenda
21 (renamed for deceptive use like Green growth in California)
http://www.oecd.org/greengrowth/oecdworkongreengrowth.htm
and Immigration of Muslims timed with this is super suspect of
communist take-over or even worse when considered with action
and intent of ISIS.
UN now wants support to control Governments thus the Elite are
trying to position for what I consider something we don’t want
and a need to battle to prevent it.
The Communist are practiced at take-over as for example the
Common Purpose fascist of UK is embedded into UK socialism and
many pre government military people have fought it longer than
the US.
Here is your Brit’s to train you on Common Purpose.
It is said in Britain that lie’s become the truth, and truth
become the lie’s. People get conditioned like zombie’s. Now
Obama actions make more sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hk1VZR4p1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRm9GUtkXQg#t=4351
The Communist infiltration has tricked down to Corporate levels
and state, county, city levels is some places, thus put on your
boxing gloves. Most people do not understand they will rewrite
your history to their agenda, its like a cultural genocide.
Like Colorado, where no old History of America was no longer
in classroom instruction, where students marched and Bill
Gates another lefty idiot with Common Core in schools a demos
think tank creation affiliated with Common Purpose and
implemented by Obama.
As far as I am concerned, the Democratic party is now communist
thus every whom is a real American should vote Republican. Us
20 million vets no like it, and 40 to 100 mil citizens should
not like it.
In cold war days Russia said they would take-over the USA from
within, Apparently this could be true unless all citizens stand
your ground. Else, prepare to sensitive training.
This is about to come to about, Obama is trying to control all
rights, particularly of speech, is trying to speech restrict &
control internet and news media. It is time to take a stand.
I do believe the Arizona Sheriff Joe Arapio has legal probable
cause to believe Obama was not vetted for eligibility maybe
assisted by socialism, thus all he has done is null & void.
Do your due diligence, give Communist Hell every day, support
Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch as he is suing for crimes of
this administration.
JOHN ROWE USMC (Giving Communist Hell, Every Way, Every Day)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dz9mik6psmx0atp/USA_USMC_PLACARD.PNG
profitsbeard says
I see Al Baghdadi has at least on fan behind him.
(Can’t the Mosad anonymously donate an oscillating version with some C4 inside to blow this psychopath away? They’ve done it with cellphones…)
john spielman says
probably easier to send rats to sniff him out- rats are very intelligent and have exceptionally superb smell, the rats could be trained to send a signal to a drone flying overhead at 40000 feet to unleash hell fire missles upon the site
Jack Diamond says
BBC article grasping at straws: “Many classical Sunni scholars challenge the very notion that the caliphate is a political project. Sheikh Ruzwan Mohammed, for example, argues that the key to the caliphate is really spiritual. “I think the Islamic State should come from within,” he says. “It should be an Islamic State first and foremost of mind and soul.” (and not a political state at all?) The BBC finding and promoting its (Scotish) scholar -of- peaceful- Islam unicorn.
Besides the appeal of a declared Caliphate there is the immediacy of end time prophecies being fulfilled (or self-fulfilled) in Syria. Those American and Canadian converts trying to get there all mention this. The IS magazine is called Dabiq, location of the coming apocalypse. Al-Baghdadi (Caliph Abdullah Ibrahim of Quraysh Al-Baghdadi) changed his names to qualify as a possible Mahdi (Mahdi must bear one of the 99 names of the prophet, so Abdullah; he must be of the lineage of Muhammad, so “of Quraysh” (the clan) and “Ali ibn Muhammad” from the husband of Muhammad’s daughter Fatima). An ISIS member in Syria called Abu Omar was quoted by Foreign Policy Oct.3, 2013 “if you think all these mujahideen came from around the world to fight Assad you are mistaken. All of them came here as it was foretold and promised by the prophet. It is the war he promised us, the war of the Great Tribulation… (and he considered) the jihad in Syria holier than in Iraq, the Qur’an and the hadiths already predicted that Satan will be defeated in Damascus.”
Happy Halloween.
BlueRaven says
Pay attention to this Obama: Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia and Pakistan support unifying all Muslim countries in caliphate. That means Caliphate plus nuclear bombs. If that is not a seriuos reason to bury ISIS deep down in the core of the earth, I can’t think there can be another.
Wtf? says
Can we have a countdown clock on the Jihadwatch website with days ,minutes and seconds until Obamas presidency finishes?
(You will note presidency is in lower case because that’s what he has reduced the once great office to)
ECAW says
“Al-Baghdadi’s brutal regime does not, of course, remotely conform to the classical Muslim understanding of what a caliphate should be…”
That’s the BBC all over for you, a very contentious statement waved away with an airy “of course”. I think a great many people would think it conforms very well to the classical understanding of what a caliphate should be, and the further back you go, and the closer to Mohammed, the more it conforms.
abad says
A crazy idea:
If these Muslims all want a Caliphate, I suggest rounding them all up – all 1 + billion of them and sending them on an asteroid to a rocky planet elsewhere in the galaxy. They can have their Caliphate there, part of our rock’s overpopulation will be solved, and Islam will be removed permanently from earth.
fair_dinkum says
that would just implode..their own racism and tribalism would kill it pretty quickly
fair_dinkum says
its 1st target would be persia
fair_dinkum says
3/4 moslems are inbred..
there’s another headline/