Rebecca’s Pocket has a link to an article about the idea I call the Resurgent Caliphate. It’s a dangerous idea, for those of us who value freedom.
“The Caliphate is a rallying point between the radicals and the more moderate Islamists,” says Stephen Ulph, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. “The idea of a government based on the Caliphate has a historical pedigree and Islamic legitimacy that Western systems of government by their very nature do not have.”
I do not object to people governing themselves. My worry is that the Resurgent Caliphate will have no room for athiest, agnostics, Christians, Buddhists, Shintoists, Taoists, Hindus, Sikhs and other varities of human beings. I don’t have a problem with 1.5 billion Muslims under one government, but I do if they want to outlaw everyone else’s ideas about what’s right and wrong.
The “historical pedigree” of Islam isn’t a pleasant one. The mindset of the men who hold in their mush brains ideas like the one below are what scare me most:
“Islam obliges Muslims to possess power so that they can intimidate – I would not say terrorize – the enemies of Islam,” says Abu Mohammed, a Hizb ut-Tahrir activist. “In the beginning, the Caliphate would strengthen itself internally and it wouldn’t initiate jihad.”
I do not want to be obliged to worship someone else’s way any more than I want a government monitored security camera in my front yard for “my own safety.”
Abu Mohammed is telling you exactly what he wants for your future, and he’s not alone. Go read the full article at the Christian Science Monitor.