From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:16:56 +0200, Phil Payne 
wrote:
>
>
>>Not something I would like to call.  My biggest problem is that there's
>>someone out there with greater local knowledge than me and possibly a
>>greater intellect - OBL.  He may yet achieve his caliphate.
>
>
> What  caliphate?  That is pure fantasy. It is far to late historically for
the
> kind of thing now. Even were it to come into existence, the caliph would be
what
> all past caliphs have been, i.e. anything but a mullah or iman. Islamic
> fundamentalists have been trying to emulate Mohammad for centuries. They have
> always failed. Even the secularists of the 20th century failed to unify the
> Middle East.
>
> Forget Osama bin Laden. He and his little bungling bunch of religious
ideologues
> will accomplish nothing at all. They are a pin-prick on the world body,
nothing
> more. It has always been so with these "terrorist" idiots.
They  come and
scare
> everybody for awhile, then fade into nothingness. It has never been
otherwise.
>

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.

Adam

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