".........The dream of a caliphate is confined to the marginalized: a rallying cry by the bin Laden-Zarqawi crowd, and, among others, by a Central Asian group battling the dictatorships there.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov invokes the caliphate to justify his brutality. Who would have thought he would be echoed by Washington?
Gen. John Abizaid, U.S. commander in the Middle East, says Islamists "will try to re-establish a caliphate throughout the entire Muslim world."
Rumsfeld magnifies the danger, saying "Iraq would serve as the base of a new Islamic caliphate to extend throughout the Middle East and which would threaten legitimate governments in Europe, Africa and Asia."
George W. Bush talks about "a totalitarian Islamic empire that reaches from Indonesia to Spain."Exaggerating the power of the enemy is a standard war tactic (used against Saddam Hussein by both George H.W. Bush in the 1991 Gulf War and by George W. Bush in 2003). But this caliphate business takes the cake. One can laugh it off but for its possible long-term consequences......."
Friday, December 16, 2005
Muslim conspiracy to rule world just nonsense
From the famous desk of Haroon Siddiqui ( I wonder if he has heard of Hizb?):
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hammad,
why must this supposed caliphate be threatening? why does mr. siddiqui feel obliged not only to term this caliphate project near impossible but also that the caliphate is desired only by extremists? why? why?
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