Is anything preventing muslims from forming caliphate?
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Mookie
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Well the point in this is they all do want. Is there anything stoping them from doing so? Or would they be able to do what they want and get recognition?
Lateknight
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A lot of stuff like language and history and economics and religious differences. Seriously this is like asking why can't the Catholics all unite under a super-country run by the pope.
Mookie
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"Theoreticaly speaking if all of them wanted to unite is there anything stoping them from doing so?"
Basicaly is there any outside force preventing them from doing that if they desire to do it?
Paul V McNutt
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Yes but there is a procedure for picking a Pope. panicking a a Caliph would be a big problem.
Well catholics never had a supper state like that
Actually they did. It was called the Roman Empire.
Well catholics never had a supper state like that
So did Catholics have to go to other countries to eat supper?
If they came together in a free vote, why should anybody stop them?
Only because we dont like it, when someone other from us in the West wields so much power?
Sorry, that would be hypocrisy to the max.
But the whole thing is unrealistic to the maxy too. Every try at this during the Cold War was an embarrassing act. And that was when the odds where better than today.
Only because we dont like it, when someone other from us in the West wields so much power?
Sorry, that would be hypocrisy to the max.
But the whole thing is unrealistic to the maxy too. Every try at this during the Cold War was an embarrassing act. And that was when the odds where better than today.
CthulhuFhtagn
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I say for this POD
"Theoreticaly speaking if all of them wanted to unite is there anything stoping them from doing so?"
Basicaly is there any outside force preventing them from doing that if they desire to do it?
It's ASB to even consider it, so does it really matter? The differences between Shi'a and Sunni are just too great, so Iran wouldn't be joining. Then you get into the differences between Arab Muslims, African Muslims, Indian Muslims, and Indonesian Muslims. These people all have vastly different cultures and languages.
The entire premise is about as plausible as asking "Is anything preventing all Christians from forming a new Roman Empire"?
it would be no more difficult that all the Christian denominations agreeing to accept the leadership of the Pope...
There is nothing stopping the formation of a caliphate, and it doesn't need to encompas every Islamic country, just one would do. The problem would be finding a suitable caliph, one with the right ancestry as well as moral and political authority. I think that if some country found a good enough caliph other countries would get on board.
In theory? No.
In practicality? Not a chance in the world. Huge issues of Language (largest Muslim population is in Indonesia, followed by Pakistan & India with Egypt # 4), political systems (India's electorate isn't about to join an Islamic superstate, neither is Nigeria or even Turkey), and internal Islamic divisions (Sunni & Shi'a pretty much despise each other more than they dislike Jews or Christians).
Be vastly easier to put all Christians as one superstate, and that would be just about impossible without divine intervention
The last time there was a caliph it was just one of the Ottoman Sultan's many titles, like "Roman Emperor".