Imagine this, you wake up one morning to the sound of a Caliphate announced by ISIL, then you watch the declaration video through youtube, and familiarize yourself with the so-called your caliphs again through youtube (the enemy's media! allegedly). imagine you A caliphate marketed by different brands of executions, mass shootings and amateur militia courts. On the other hand 28 different nations with different religious doctrines, languages and peoples, not long ago were all involved in bloody wars. Yet they decided to gradually intertwine into an amalgam of economic unity yielding the largest free market in the world, virtually freedom of movement, enacting legislation in justice and home affairs and maintaining common policies on agriculture, manufacturing and security. This Amalgam is known as the EU.
The EU Caliphate! is what you get when carefully planned visions and missions are executed. Not the whims of a youtube caliphate with no understanding of the real geopolitical situation.
Ironically a caliphate determined to spread by the spoils of war "Ghaniima war machinery" from the west fighting another war machinery also from the West. American Humvee against American Humvee.
A youtube caliphate with no understanding of what a Caliphate is, a Caliphate with surreal sentiments that we observe in patients during rounds in psychiatric hospitals claiming to be the awaited "Al-Mahdi", that patient is not to be blamed as everyone knows and sympathizes with the mental health challenges they are going through, stuck in another dimension in their minds, detached from our reality.
For the youtube caliphate, Chants of support and oaths of allegiance appear in my facebook feed every now and then, not from the ton of Arab acquaintances I have but from my kin and blood the Somalis... Most of whom feverishly take every opportunity to debase Al-shabaab.
Are they missing the point that if Al-shabab are bad, ISIL are worst not worse, If Al-shabab are cancer (waa sida ay yidhaahdeene!) ISIL are metastatic cancer that spread all over the body.....
Things will be better for Islam. that statement will be true when we are united, when we understand that through knowledge we can overcome, not through the AK-47 that we don't even make, Through a truthful understanding of Islam and finally by having no underlying agendas such as sectarian, tribal, geographical or ethnic inclinations adulterating our noble cause in making this planet or universe a better place for EVERYBODY (لا إكراه في الدين), a place where the Almighty is worshipped,,, thus the concept of عمارة الأرض ورعاية الكون.....
A good example to look at will be our own history, to glance at our own Islamic Caliphate that spanned a millennium. the peak of enlightenment for the whole wide world.... when the Islamic world became infested with Arab nationalism the Ottomans leaned towards ethnic dominance, and Muslims started having separate identities. crumbling to its knees by the changing hearts, away from the unity of Islam to myopic ethnic and sectarian agendas.
Islam crumbled from its soul and it can rise when it's back.
May Allah Guide our brothers ISIL to the right path...May Allah guide us All to the right path...
Ramadan Karim
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