What a 'caliphate' would look like in 2010

[Confederate Kahanist]

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By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends the religious ceremony on the final day of Ashura in the south of Tehran, Shahr-el-Rey, Iran, on December 27, 2009. Shiites in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon wrapped up the annual 10-day Ashura rituals which commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in 680. Photo by Kerim Gulbetekin/AA/ABACAPRESS.COM Photo via Newscom

An Islamic caliphate in the contemporary world would provide for a legislature of Islamists voted on only by members of the faith, judges to carry out justice through Shariah and a reluctant commitment to "bear with" non-Muslims.

The outline comes from Israr Ahmed, who died earlier this year. He founded Pakistan's leading religious organization, Tanzeem-e-Islami, was a prominent Islamic scholar who actively campaigned for establishment of an Islamic caliphate and wrote more than 60 books.

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His proposal was the subject of a recent conference in Lahore that examined his teachings and was documented by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors media in the region.

At the conference on Ahmed's work, Akif Saeed, the new emir of Tanzeem-e-Islami, said his predecessor diagnosed all of Pakistan's problems as "originating from the absence of caliphate."

"The real case of our woes is the delay in the enforcement of Shariah [in Pakistan]. Peaceful protest and other tactics can help us in this regard … Our belief in the oneness of Allah can make the Muslims one nation."

Author Joel Richardson has documented the growing call for a global caliphate, including developments in Turkey as well as Iran.

MEMRI said Ahmed reportedly proclaimed that the head of an Islamic state could reject majority decisions of an elected assembly and believed women should be barred from all professions except medicine and teaching.

The organization translated excerpts from Ahmed's Urdu-language booklet, "The System of Caliphate in Pakistan – What, Why, and How?"

In it, Ahmed wrote that in such a system, the "sovereignty will belong to Allah."

"That will be expressed in the unconditional and complete supremacy of the Quran and the Sunnah over the system and the law. This supremacy will obviously be asserted in the constitution as the basis of the state's existence."

He also concluded that "full citizenship will not be awarded to all the people living within its geographical boundaries, but only to those among them who will announce their belief in Allah and Muhammad as his final prophet."

"Non-Muslims will be a protected minority whose life, wealth and honor will be protected and who will enjoy guaranteed freedom in their beliefs, religious activities, family laws and complete personal law. And their sacred places will be as safe as mosques are. But as law-making in an Islamic state or caliphate will be within the boundaries of the Quran and the Sunnah, and the purpose of the caliphate will be the expansion and completion of the prophet's mission, the non-Muslims will not be a part of law-making or of higher-order policy or strategy development."

He then listed several points for a modern Islamic state, or "caliphhood":

    * All Muslims will be equal

    * "Nothing bars a modern Islamic state" from using a legislature, executive branch and judiciary. "There will be a legislature to continue lawmaking as per the Quran … [and] there will be a judiciary to decide disputes … in accordance with Shariah."

    * "There should be an institution of religious scholars who will check the laws made by or drafts proposed to the parliament for them to be in accordance with the Quran."

    * Political parties "will be barred from including in their programs anything that is against the Quran and the Sunnah." If a politician disagrees, "he should resign."

    * "Democratic values can be propagated and enforced within … the requirement of the Quran's principle of consultation."

    * "All [Muslim] citizens will be allowed to believe, pray and perform their rites and rituals of birth, death, marriage and inheritance according to their sects."

    * It doesn't matter, Ahmed concluded, whether the government is a presidential or parliamentary system.

    * Woman can become a member of a "consultative assembly" while "in proper dress with faces in veils," and non-Muslims "will not be allowed to vote or run for seats in elections." A board could be established to listen to them. "This condition is in every way against the modern norms yet we have to bear with it if we have to make an ideal modern state."

Richardson, the author of "Islamic Antichrist" who blogs at JoelsTrumpet.com, suggested, "Imagine a form of government that promises to end all oppression, where justice always prevails, where the wicked are subjugated, where Muslims dwell together in peace and unity and where God's blessings reside.

"Never mind the fact that whenever Islamic government has been tried, just the opposite has been proven to be true," he said. "History reveals that Islamic rule has always resulted in the oppression of women, children, non-Muslims, minorities and any Muslims of insufficient piety."

He also addressed the issue of whether Turkey is on course to lead a revived Islamic empire.

He cited the work of the National Intelligence Council, which suggested that in the coming years a fledgling caliphate could emerge.

"What is interesting about the council's 'over the horizon' assessment is that the coming caliphate would not be built on acts of terrorism, but instead would be established through peaceful means. By claiming to provide the Middle East with stability, peace and security, the emergence of the coming caliphate will be viewed positively by much of the world. Yet the conclusion of the 2020 report states that even a limited and moderate Islamic caliphate would pose problems for the United States and its global interests of immense proportions."

He reported that Adnan Oktar, a Turkish Muslim intellectual, already has been calling for a "Turkish-led Islamic Union." Oktar, although a controversial figure, is highly respected in many circles and is the most published author in the Islamic world, with over 65 million copies of his works in circulation.

"We should not take Mr. Oktar's vision lightly. For the past several years, I have been highlighting the merging of two very significant developments in the nation of Turkey – the first issue being the rapid Islamization of the nation. … But the second issue, perhaps of even greater significance, is Turkey's re-emergence as leader of the region."