And the movement was called as such, they were called a Khawarij by early Muslims, companions of the prophet, cousins of the prophet. The fourth Caliph encountered them. Now without going into a huge amount of detail, because all of that appears in the book, is that the Khawarij took up arms against the majority
And that takes an emotional connection. and in the ISIS caliphate.
the bomb that senior you many bomb maker put together for him was hidden in his create a in a Caliphate and establish their version of Sharia law in a range
I say, Abu Muhammad, I am so impressed by what you have done in the last few months. There's no longer a caliphate, although there are pockets of ISIS in northern Iraq, and obviously still in Syria.
The problem with the Indian zero in Gwalior is that it's 800s. And that's coincidental with the caliphate in Baghdad, the big, very extensive Arab trade. So if you have a zero in India from that time, it could've come there from Europe or from the Arabs, or the other way.
It's not going to get them what they want. They're not going to get a caliphate out of this. But they're certainly getting attention.
But we know that territory is being taken by extremist groups-- ISIS being the most audacious, with their claim of a caliphate that crosses the border between Syria and Iraq. And I think we have a pretty good idea what that would mean-- what that would mean for the region, where you could, possibly,
We could leave our studies and go over as quickly as possible to Pakistan to recruit from the Pakistani Army and recruit from the population, so prime Pakistan as being the starting point for this so-called caliphate. Again, another appropriation of an Islamic term, a historical term that they've now used to call their superstate.
world long before the Arab Spring or his own death because he had nothing to offer. There's no al Qaeda hospital system or social welfare service or ideas about political economy. It's just a restoration of the caliphate, by which he means not the Ottoman Empire, but Taliban-style theocracies from Indonesia to Morocco. Most Muslims see what the Taliban did in Afghanistan. It's not a very attractive model for the future.
well most of the organization and its affiliates still looks towards establishing something along the lines of a caliphate that is overthrown overthrowing regimes across the Arab world all the way probably up to about
of Muslims. And their contention was that most Muslims who accepted arbitration of men, human beings, were not pious believers. So they took up arms and wanted to kill the fourth Caliph , Imam Ali. And in that very early battle what happens is Imam Ali and others expel them from within Islam.
It doesn't take very many psychopaths and nationalists and power-hungry politicians to tip a country into civil war. And also just the whole idea of the caliphate is finally standing up to the West and reclaiming this very real, sort of historical,
Maybe this volatility ultimately leads to a better place. And now they have one group or one ISIS caliphate, as they call it, that spans the border between Iraq and Syria.
And he wore a Yemeni robe. He walked into the encampment of the Khawarij who'd taken up arms against the Caliph . And he said, I don't see a single companion of the prophet among you.
That was me struggling with my own-- For example, I used the term-- I said, "We're calling for a representative caliphate." They basically took issue with my use of the word representative. "What do you mean, 'a representative caliphate'? It's God's law! God's the one who represents us." It wasn't-- They weren't happy with that.
insurgent groups comprise transnational elements like Al-Qaeda, or Daesh, ISIS-- or deliberately set themselves against the existing world order of states by proclaiming their wish to form supranational communities, like the caliphate proclaimed by ISIS. Is every civil war really a specimen of the same species when so many distinct dynamics, ethnic conflicts, wars of secession and national liberation, battles for succession and so on,
It doesn't take very many psychopaths and nationalists and power-hungry politicians to tip a country into civil war. I guess I understand it, the original ideology is they are the caliphate.
- Their homes, their villages, yeah, their families, and land. If we look back a thousand years in history, maybe fifteen hundred years, there was the Khazar Khaganate, the Arabic Caliphate, then the Iranian Empire, or the Persian Empire, I should say.
And they're really being rolled up pretty quickly in Syria. Which doesn't mean that their threat is over with, but what they proclaim to be the caliphate-- they declared the caliphate in the area that they controlled, harking back to the sort of glory days of the Arab world of the Muslim faith.
It doesn't take very many psychopaths and nationalists and power-hungry politicians to tip a country into civil war. having a picnic by a lake, things like that, just this sort of utopian, idealized vision of life inside the caliphate.
Basically, after 12 years of doing this, he had gotten a bit tired. it was like to live under Islamist Al Qaeda occupation for almost a years, you know, where they were building this caliphate.
They're trying to do what has been the dream of extremist Sunnis caught up in terrorism, for a number of years, now, and that is to establish-- or, in their mind, reestablish-- a caliphate, and put one of their own in charge. So yeah, they're very dangerous.
But I was roundly criticized inside the group for that interview because they said it was too soft. That was me struggling with my own-- For example, I used the term-- I said, "We're calling for a representative caliphate." They basically took issue with my use of the word representative. "What do you mean, 'a representative caliphate'?
I believe that the ideology of Islamism is one of the biggest obstacles standing before Muslims and their progress. I said, "If the European Union can come together, why can't Muslim countries come together and form a caliphate?" I'd like to tell you, now, that that analogy is false.