The Rising Fundamentalist Caliphate: Didn't I Tell You So?
I have been discussing for more than a year now how Bush's horrible foreign policy is enabling the rise of a Fundamentalist Islamic Caliphate, uniting fundamentalist Sunnis against us world wide.
I discussed this regarding Somalia and its neighbors (which got me invited onto BBC Radio twice, though I only went on once,
I discussed this regarding Pakistan, our supposed ally which Barack Obama is right not to trust (remember, the elite forces of the Pakistani army put the Taliban in place in Afghanistan and are probably sheltering them now),
And even regarding such normally stable nations like Morocco, Bahrain, and
But there is a movement that is USING the term and using it in much the way I am. From BBC News: Some 100,000 Islamists have met in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, to press for the re-establishment of a caliphate across the Muslim world. The Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir - which organised the conference - said it had been the largest gathering of Muslim activists from around the world... Hizb ut-Tahrir - or Liberation Party - was founded in Jerusalem in the 1950s by Palestinian religious scholar Taqiuddin an-Nabhani. Today it has a mainly clandestine following in the Middle East, a large presence in Central Asia - where hundreds of its members have been jailed - and active supporters in the West, including London, which is believed to be one of its main bases. Many experts see it as ideologically close to jihadist groups, and suspect its commitment to peaceful means is purely tactical. Indonesia did its best to keep the most extreme speakers away and keep everything quiet. But what we have is a wave of fundamentalism sweeping across Islamic nations, either in terms of taking over governments (Somalia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain...) or leading armed terrorist rebellions against the government in an attempt to set up a fundamentalist government (Morocco, Bangladesh, Iraq...) and a political wing that is pushing for a unified Caliphate. And all of this has been going forward merrily under Bush's watch almost unchecked. If anything, Bush's failed policies have ENCOURAGED the growth of this nasecnt Caliphate.Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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What to do, that's the hard part. In this, like most subjects on the agenda these days, to solve the problem by removing Bush is helpful but only a partial answer. On the US political scene, we have to ask how we got Bush in the first place. His aggressive stance was enhanced by events on 9/ll, but his countenance had many voters hoodwinked on the "compassionate conservative" pitch. When the Oklahoma City bombing happened, it took careful explaining to convince the public that it was a "homegrown" crime. When we had long lines at the gas pump, we knew something was amiss. And each time the price went up, there was a hunch that the Arabs did it.
Just as the fanatic fundamentalists (Christian) in the US chanted a litany, fanatic Islamists could counter-chant. And I might add while they were chanting they placed little Israel out in front to catch the flak.
Before 9/11, when the UN held its human rights conference in Durbin, Bush was adamant about not attending the meetings. There was talk of whether Colin Powell was too senior.
In the United States if one holds deed to land with mineral rights, one has the option to sign a contract, or not, for exploration by an oil company. If one sells the land, one can sell it with or without the mineral rights. Other countries probably have different laws to protect the property holder. But nowhere, except if imperialism prevails, does a sovereign nation--rogue or otherwise--have a desire to lose property, above or below ground.