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Originally Posted by Jamroll
I think many of us, when we think about the Caliphate and the Khalifa, we imagine some bearded yokel with a curved sword lopping off heads and using 7th century dialect. But if we think about it, the Khalifa is likely to be well versed in modernity, bearded he may be, but I doubt he will be of the yokel variety. Remember, Muhammad (saw) was responsible for spearheading a huge social revolution - his ideas were very progressive and radical for the time. He would probably have been viewed as a complete modernist, by his peers. In fact, we know that his peers wanted to maintain the status quo, and stick with how things had always been. To my understanding of this, I imagine our Khalifa will emerge to smash the status quo, to shake things up, and it's not inconceivable that tihs could happen in a modern state like Turkey.
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nothing is inconceivable, but if you look at the current world that we live in and the ones who are agitating or fighting for something like khilafa (not the traditional concept of course), they arent models of modernity. We are not talking about the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic parties in Turkey or other muslim countries, the mainstream Islamic institutions anywhere, etc. We are talking about illiterate rednecks with guns and swords, fanatics with suicide belts and rifles and messianic suicidal doctrines, and crazy political parties like Hizb Al Tahrir or Ghuraba' (wierdos), which attract the refuse of the Muslim communities in the United Kingdom and America (but may have a different role elsewhere). These are fringe people that dont motivate or inspire the rest of Islam
Then other than that, there is a huge reserve of people who say that they support khilafa, but have no idea whom they would want to have that seat or how a government like that should be created, or where, and are not doing anything to further this cause that they claim except talking alot. People like that will never achieve anything if things continue as they are.
Maybe theres a tiny number of people who fit that profile that you described, but i've never heard of any of them. I'd be very interested to hear more about them and their organizations. I think alot of the muslims I described who talk and do nothing would be more motivated to actually do something if there were organizations that actually offered a positive vision and a good future, rather than just Bin Laden the psycho terrorist, The Taliban which led their already destroyed country into even deeper poverty and destruction, the wild fanatics in Iraq chopping people's heads off and blowing up mosques and markets on a daily basis, and 19 year old unemployable losers in London. Thats a vacuum that could be filled, it would be interesting to see it happen
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