From: Gene McAloon 

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. 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.

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.

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