The Coming of The Caliphate

Cairo - St Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church - Hanging Church

Personal Background

Starting in June, 1972  I traveled for three and a half months throughout Europe, the Balkans, Greece, and on to Israel and Egypt.   Ironically, I had visited Munich, Germany in late June while the Summer XX Olympiad Grounds were being readied for the upcoming events and ceremonies starting August 26.  

 

On September 5, a terrorist group, Black September, massacred eleven Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics Park.  I was in Greece at the time and shortly afterward I flew from Athens, Greece into Cairo, Egypt arriving  on an Air France flight at mid-night and was met in the dark by an Army half-track armored vehicle with soldiers with under-eye black with machine guns pointed at me as I debarked my plane and entered into the Cairo airport terminal with more machine gun sand bag nests positioned and pointed at arriving passengers.  It was intense.

While in Cairo, I visited  the Coptic Church of St. Barbara where Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus had stayed during their travels.  I also heard stories about how the Coptic Christians were shunned and treated as second class citizens in their society too.  At that time, as a casual observer, I was not honestly aware of the Islamic society  due to the fact that any public unrest and Muslim militancy had not even remotely affected the United States or any of its citizens.  After all, 9/11/2001 was still twenty-nine years away from happening on United States shores.

A week later, I went to Israel and began to see and compare differences beyond the cultural beliefs and really felt it between the religions for their regional aspirations for territorial power and control.  Ordained by ancient Holy scriptures, the Jews, Christians and Muslims all laid claims to the Holy Lands.  Again,  I did not understand then what the full significance meant of these demands by either an expected entitlement or as by the virtue of Godly preordained rights laid upon a religious group.

 

I remember getting on a bus going from Jerusalem to Haifa with three teen girls, about sixteen years old, who were garbed out in drab green combat uniforms with Uzi machine guns strapped over their shoulders matter-of-factly as if they were just school backpacks full of books and boarded the bus to take seats in front of me.  Strangely,  I felt more safe, except for the obvious I did not know why.  Reality time check here?  So in 1972, I could see very difficult problems looming ahead even as a naive observer at the time.  

The Caliphate

In the past the greatest Muslim confederations were led by a caliph, a leader of all Muslims. The word "caliph" is the English form of the Arabic term kalifa, which means successor. The ruling institution of the caliphs is called the caliphate.

The modern movement for restoring the caliphate over Islam is presently growing quietly throughout the Middle East. If it should succeed it could possibly decentralize control over Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia—at least 1.5 billion Islamic followers. That would change dramatically the scope of Islamic power and influence in the world today.

The Caliphate is a rallying point between the radicals and the more moderate Islamists. 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.

The Plan

Islam means ‘peace’, but a peace only on its terms, through full submission to Allah’s law. Hence, despite politically correct adulations of Islam by Washington and also Europe, there can be no co-existence between Islam and Western Civilization.  Many citizens are fast becoming aware it is not a "kumbaya moment" and is not going to work.

 
A Reaganite inspired and neo-conservative influenced American policy seems to be moving more openly by attaching the vague label of “evil ideology” to the Caliphate. However, as with Communism, Western policy needs to be bolder in correctly defining Islam as the main threat. By adopting our current slow, deliberate, politically correct Policies of Appeasement that the United States Government has adopted, it will fail as our country loses its sovereignty.

A continuing state of public denial in regards to a conflict with Islam in Washington as well as Europe only breeds more confusion, frustration and contradiction among academic and policy circles aware of the incompatibility between the two doctrines.  

Neville Chamberlain, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, in 1938, sold out his country's sovereignty by capitulating with Adolph Hitler to negotiate his Policy of Appeasement of surrendering Czechloslavakia to Germany. Chamberlain's hollow promise said, "Go home to your beds, it's peace for our time"  as  Hitler continued onward with his conquest of the world.  History calls us again.

It is time to say to wishy-washy gratuitous spineless politicians... The USA is solely based upon Judeo-Christian Beliefs! (We still have religious tolerance and no persecution of others, not like in the Arab countries for Christians or Jews.)

The United States was founded on Judeo-Christian principles or the Christian world view.  This was not by happenstance, this was by design because our Founding Fathers knew that this was the only way in which the people could be assured the freedom, liberty, and justice they sought.  The Judeo-Christian world view sees man as an individual creation of God, special in his own right, worthy and valued in his individuality, with rights as an individual.  This was the basis of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Under the Judeo-Christian world view, our nation has prospered and flourished as no other nation had before or has since.