Caliphates

The early Muslim Caliphates were some of the most tolerant places for other religions, then us Christians turn up with our “superiority” and decide to turn everyone into a Christian or a corpse.

Doughnuts and Diversity; the essential ingredients of modern British policing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

To the statelets thus created – little Caliphates, little Hindutvas, little Khalistans, and so on – people minded to live in such places would flock from the ends of the earth, entrenching the situation for ever.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

They were influenced by Ibn Taymiyya, a scholar in the Middle Ages who warned that straying from the strict vision of the Salaf founders of the Caliphates of the seventh century would bring about the collapse of the Caliphate and the Islamic Umma.10

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Copts, Arabized Copts, and Arab émigrés formed the population under the various Caliphates, which produced the Egyptian language, a mix of the tongues of ancient Egypt and Arabia.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

Even the failed student uprising in Tiananmen Square that same year perturbed the absolutist commanders of “revolutions” and seekers of Caliphates and Imamates in the region.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

To the statelets thus created – little Caliphates, little Hindutvas, little Khalistans, and so on – people minded to live in such places would flock from the ends of the earth, entrenching the situation for ever.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

Under both the Arab and Ottoman Caliphates, the peoples seeking liberation from the “empire” had ups and downs in their endeavor.12

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

These situations will easily perpetuate themselves, since people will move - not just from around the country, but from around the world - to live in Cameron's little Caliphates, Hindutvas and Khalistans.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

I do take umbrage in the fact that back when these easily duped figures like Butt and Hussain and Hamid were agitating for Global Caliphates, my friends and I would confront them at various Islamic conventions and call them traitors to the Islamic tradition and yet now the WSJ and Observer are parading these figures around as talking heads, while not acknowledging the existent discourse among Muslim communities that challenged them previously.

Ali Eteraz: Media Reliance on Former Terrorists and Radicals is a Joke 2008

The post seventh century Caliphates employed enslaved officials in a number of capacities.

ANC Today 2007