From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:29:12 +0100, Adam Flinton

> wrote:
>
>
>>If there were a caliphate e'd have to be a descendant of the prophet
>>i.e. a Hashemi or one of the morrocan lot.
>
>
> Nonsense. You are looking at it from the religious point of view.

No...gosh really.....Next you'll be telling me the Pope has something to do
with religion.

> That doesn't
> apply to the real caliphates that have existed in various parts of the Arab
> world in the past. Not a one that I can recall was descendant of anyone but
his
> father and probably he was a tribal leader.
>

Sigh. Yes Gene.....you can always have a fake pseudo-Caliphate if you wish
just as you can & have had more than one pope at a time.

> You people have got to read a little history on the Middle East and forget
the
> absurd junk you are hearing from your Arab friends, if that is where you are
> getting this stuff.
>

Hey what would they know about their own culture, history & beliefs
when set against the marxist analysis which has proved so correct in the
past.

Adam

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