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Yesterday morning marked a historic occasion as Fatimah bint-Obaidullah al-Rashid al-Filasteenee was selected to become the new Caliph. This makes her the first female Caliph to rule the Ummah in her own right since the days of Sitt al-Mulk in the early 11th century.
During her first press conference as Caliph at the Hagia Sophia she urged Muslims everywhere to come together and embrace their brethren in these trying times and to put their faith in the Ummah & Allah. She also touched on the growth of violence towards women in the Muslim world, believing this to be the result of corrupting un-Islamic influences like alcohol, American television programs, video-games and western music. Fatimah is scheduled to meet with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church next week followed by a meeting with the Pope in two weeks.
So what is everyone’s first impression of Fatimah? Do you think she will be better than the last Caliph? On the one hand, I find the selection of a woman as the head of the Ummah to be an incredibly progressive move. On the other hand, I’m turned off by the way she seemingly blames all of Muslim world’s problems on “un-Islamic influences”.
OOC.: I’ll leave it up to you to decide how the Caliphate remains to present day (no Kemal Atatürk maybe?) but I will say that the Caliph is a religious figure without control of the political government (though he/she can use the influence to support (or maybe resist?) government’s aims (think of the OTL relationship between Patriarch Kirill and Putin’s government)).
During her first press conference as Caliph at the Hagia Sophia she urged Muslims everywhere to come together and embrace their brethren in these trying times and to put their faith in the Ummah & Allah. She also touched on the growth of violence towards women in the Muslim world, believing this to be the result of corrupting un-Islamic influences like alcohol, American television programs, video-games and western music. Fatimah is scheduled to meet with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church next week followed by a meeting with the Pope in two weeks.
So what is everyone’s first impression of Fatimah? Do you think she will be better than the last Caliph? On the one hand, I find the selection of a woman as the head of the Ummah to be an incredibly progressive move. On the other hand, I’m turned off by the way she seemingly blames all of Muslim world’s problems on “un-Islamic influences”.
OOC.: I’ll leave it up to you to decide how the Caliphate remains to present day (no Kemal Atatürk maybe?) but I will say that the Caliph is a religious figure without control of the political government (though he/she can use the influence to support (or maybe resist?) government’s aims (think of the OTL relationship between Patriarch Kirill and Putin’s government)).