Osama bin Laden chided terrorists in his network for not making the Palestinian cause a primary issue.

“It was necessary to discuss Palestine first,” the terrorist leader, assassinated last year in a US operation, said after a December 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan.

The attackers had instead said the attack was revenge for killing a Pakistani Taliban leader.

That statement and others like it were in a cache of documents made available by US authorities to The Washington Post’s David Ignatius, who included them in a column on Friday.

Bin Laden did not make Palestine an issue until the early 2000s, focusing in  the 1990s on the US presence in Saudi Arabia as his primary reason for targeting Americans. Some analysts have suggested that his decision to emphasize Palestine so was tactical, made in the wake of the attention generated by the Second Intifada; Ignatius’ revelations suggest the terrorist leader had come to attach ideological import to the issue.

The al-Qaida leader also said US President Obama’s decision to abandon the language of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who described a “war on terror,” had damaged the terrorist organization.

He said Obama’s officials “have largely stopped using the phrase ‘the war on terror’ in the context of not wanting to provoke Muslims.”

By naming al-Qaida as the enemy, the Obama administration had diminished its popularity, he said.

Bin Laden’s spokesman, Adam Gadahn, advised him to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 2001 attacks with a video statement to US media — but not to the Fox News Channel.

“As for Fox News let her die in her anger,” said the former Adam Pearlman, an American born a Christian, and whose grandfather was Jewish.

The documents found at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan also indicate that before his death, he directed operatives to assassinate Obama and US Gen. David H. Petraeus.

According to the report, bin Laden explained to his top lieutenant his reasoning for targeting the two.

“Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency … Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the US into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour… and killing him would alter the war’s path in Afghanistan,” the al-Qaida leader allegedly said.

The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah declared, last Monday, that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region,” Raymond Ibrahim of Jihad Watch reported in an article published in the Middle East Forum, on March 14^th.

“The Sheikh based his proclamation on the famous tradition, or hadith, wherein the prophet of Islam declared on his deathbed that ‘There are not to be two religions in the [Arabian] Peninsula,’ which has always been interpreted to mean that only Islam can be practiced in the region,” Ibrahim explained.

Ibrahim noted the inherent hypocrisy in the Grand Mufti quoting the hadith as reason to destroy churches, whereas, when non-Muslims do so “they are accused of being ‘Islamophobes,’ of intentionally slandering and misrepresenting Islam, of being obstacles on the road to ‘dialogue.”
The Mufti’s proclamation to obliterate Churches was made immediately following his recent calls to silence and suppress dissenting views, namely those of the former columnist Hazma Kashgari, whom he insisted be tried in a religious court for a series of ‘blasphemous’ tweets.

While the Mufti asserted that the “justice system in Sadi Arabia is fair,” he nonetheless went on to say that, “all matters related to justice should be reviewed by Shariah courts as God the Almighty said in the Holy Quran.”

Kashgari immediately apologized for his comments, tweeting: “I have made a mistake, and I hope Allah and all those whom I have offended will forgive me,” before fleeing the country.
Furthermore, Ambassador to the United States Micheal Oren, in an article he published in the Wall Street Journal last Friday, affirmed that Arab discrimination against Christian minorities is becoming an increasingly prevalent phenomenon throughout the Arab world.

“In Egypt, 200,000 Coptic Christians fled their homes last year after beatings and massacres by Muslim extremist mobs,” Oren stated. “Since 2003, 70 Iraqi churches have been burned and nearly a thousand Christians killed in Baghdad alone, causing more than half of this million-member community to flee.”

He went on to state that “[c]onversion to Christianity is a capital offense in Iran, where last month Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death” and that “Saudi Arabia outlaws private Christian prayer.”

In fact, Oren asserted, the “only place in the Middle East where Christians aren’t endangers but [are] flourishing is Israel.”

The facts seem to speak for themselves. Yet, as Ibrahim notes, “the West, with all its institutions of higher learning, including governmental agencies dealing with cultural and religious questions—is still thoroughly ‘confused’ as to what Islam teaches.”

Jerusalem is of incidental significance to Islam, its importance varying through history according to political circumstances – that was the message scholars delivered Wednesday at a panel discussion in the capital on the city’s significance to Muslim tradition and faith.

The event, titled “Jerusalem: How Important is it to Muslims?” was organized by the Middle East Forum and held at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center.

Daniel Pipes, the founder and director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum, opened the panel by outlining Jerusalem’s centrality to Judaism – it is mentioned in the Bible more than 800 times as well as in prayer services, daily blessings and wedding services.

Since the Temple’s destruction in 70 CE and the subsequent exile of Jews from the Land of Israel, Jerusalem has been the focus of Jewish spiritual longing.

In Islam, Jerusalem plays a far more subordinate role, Pipes said.

“It is not prayed to, not mentioned once in the Koran; there are no events in Muhammad’s life directly connected to it; it is not a capital and it is sometimes even seen as a place rejected by God,” he said.

After emigrating from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE, Muhammad enacted religious laws allowing Muslim men to eat Jewish-prepared food and marry Jewish women, and encouraged them to pray in the direction of Jerusalem.

Pipes said that by 624, once it was clear that the Jews had rejected Muhammad’s claim to prophethood, he changed the direction of prayer to Mecca.

“This set a precedent of Muslims raising or lowering Jerusalem’s importance in accordance with political concerns,” said Pipes, who holds a doctorate in medieval Islamic history from Harvard University and is a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Jerusalem’s importance in Islam was temporarily heightened by the Umayyads, the caliphs who transferred their seat of power from Mecca to Damascus in 661. To bolster their legitimacy, the Umayyads deemphasized Muslim sites associated with Muhammad and his successors in Mecca and Medina in favor of pre-Islamic holy sites in Syria – an area in which they included Jerusalem, Pipes said.

Muslims believe the Koran was compiled between 610 and Muhammad’s death in 632. The book describes the Islamic prophet’s night journey atop a winged steed to the “farthest mosque” – in Arabic, “al-masjid al-aksa” – but the location of the mosque is not identified.

The Umayyads built the Dome of the Rock on the site of the ruined Jewish Temple in 651, and what is today known as Al-Aksa Mosque in 705. “The Umayyads built a mosque and called it ‘al-masjid al-aksa,’” Pipes said. “Seventy years after Muhammad, the revelation became a mosque.”

When the caliphate passed from the Umayyads to the Baghdad-based Abbasids six years later, Jerusalem again fell into obscurity, Pipes said. The idea of Jerusalem as the third holiest city in Islam came about centuries later in response to the Crusades, he said.

“Jerusalem became important to Islam when someone else wanted it,” said Moshe Sharon, an Islamic history scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Arab affairs adviser to prime minister Menachem Begin.

“Jerusalem is not on any major trade routes. Only independent or semi-independent states with biblical cultures have made it a capital: The Jews, Crusaders and British,” Sharon said.

“Jerusalem was never a capital under Islam. When the Muslims came here, they created a new capital – Ramle, not Jerusalem.”

Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University said Islam has historically viewed itself as superseding or completing all religions that preceded it. To orthodox Muslims, therefore, the revival of Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel is first and foremost a theological predicament.

Kedar showed a 2008 interview he gave to Al Jazeera in which he responds to the anchor’s warning against “erasing Jerusalem from the Koran” by saying that the city is not mentioned by name once in the Muslim holy book.

“Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, period,” Kedar says in the clip, which has been viewed over 350,000 times on YouTube.

Wednesday’s discussion was notable for its absence of dissenting voices – all its speakers were Jewish, and all but Pipes live in Israel. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on the sidelines of the conference, Pipes delivered the same unvarnished message that typified the evening’s remarks.

“I’ve done a fair amount of research on this topic, and I can’t say I’ve encountered anything by Muslims on this subject that is real scholarship,” he said. “I hope one day there will be.”

Israel has struck oil again, this time off the Tel Aviv coast. Developers maintain the find includes 100 million barrels of oil, worth $10 billion.

Modiin Energy and Adira Energy discovered an estimated 128 million barrels of oil and 1.8 trillion cubic feet of gas in their Gabriella and Yitzhak licenses, in shallow water less than 15 miles northwest of Tel Aviv.

Officials called the find “significant” and added, “Surveys conducted in recent months found oil in the target strata. The potential oil reservoir is 128 million barrels of oil, and the contingent reserves are an additional 120 million barrels.”

“Bottom line, there is oil. It’s 100 percent. Secondly, the quantities are commercial,” said Tzachi Sultan, controlling shareholder of Modiin.

The Gabriella license is near shore in shallow water. “At a time of soaring oil prices, this is good news for IDB, Modiin, Adira, said Chaim Gavriella, CEO of the IDB  holding company that owns most of Gabriella’s shares.

The oil was defined as “ high quality” and reportedly can be extracted even easier than the gas.
The amount of oil is estimated to meet Israel’s needs for 18 months, in addition to other energy finds in the Tamar and Leviathan fields off the Haifa coast. Companies developing those fields say there is enough gas and perhaps oil to turn Israel into an exporter.

Sultan said drilling will begin by the end of the year and that it will take approximately five years for the first well to start producing oil.

Adira CEO Jeffrey Walter was ecstatic. “I said that I came to find oil and gas and was laughed at. I was told that there is no oil here. They were wrong,” he told Globes.

The discoveries of oil and gas are expected to provide thousands of new jobs for engineers and others needed to work on infrastucture, and the forecast ability of Israel to be self-sufficient could eventually lead to a large decline in domestic fuel prices and a stronger shekel.

The Knesset’s Education Committee discussed Tuesday the ongoing damage to the Temple Mount caused by Muslims.

The Chairman of the Antiquities Authority, Shuka Dorfman, told the committee that “the Temple Mount is an antiquities site that is not supervised by me like the other antiquities sites are. There are limitations on the supervision. We work in cooperation with the police. We know what goes on there even without being there – I am not pleased with what goes on in the Temple Mount.”

“The authority to approve or prevent [excavation] work [on the Mount] is in our hands and I have received criticism for it. I do not want to criticize, bit prime ministers and ministers know what is going on atop the Temple Mount,” Dorfman said, hinting at Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. 

MK Aryeh Eldad told Arutz Sheva after the committee session that “there is systematic destruction of antiquities organized by the Waqf and the Islamic Movement in order to build the ideological infrastructure for the claim that our Temples never existed. Our prime ministers over the years have surrendered to the Waqf and were willing to accept their rampage on the Temple Mount.”

MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud), who initiated the discussion, said that “there is a dereliction of Israel’s sovereignty on the Temple Mount. Day after day, another bite is taken out of our sovereignty. I ask that the State Ombudsman’s report regarding the Temple Mount, the most holy site for Judaism, be made public.”

A member of the Public Committee for Prevention of Destruction on the Temple Mount, Yisrael Kaspi, said bluntly: “We blame the Prime Minister. There is criminal negligence, there a state of anarchy, destruction is being carried out and by now it cannot be undone.”

Kaspi said that instructions have been issued forbidding work with tractors atop the Temple Mount and forbidding work under the cover of darkness – yet the damage continues. “I am fuming mad,” he said. He asked the committee to call on the government to supervise and safeguard Israel’s national treasures.

The police representative, Lt. Col. Avi Biton, told the committee that the police supervise the Mount 24 hours a day and have access to all spots on the Mount. At present, he said, there is only one tractor on the Mount that transports equipment from place to place.

“The continued, deliberate and illegal destruction of archeological remains from the Temple Mount with the tacit approval of the Israeli government is an unforgivable crime against the people of Israel and an attempt to eradicate all Jewish connection to our holiest site, “ said Rabbi Chaim Richman, Director of the International Department of The Temple Institute. “This is exactly why the Temple Institute is calling on people worldwide to observe the 2nd of Nissan (March 25th) as International Temple Mount Awareness Day  to highlight and celebrate the centrality of the Temple Mount, the theme of the Holy Temple and its intrinsic connection to the Jewish people” he added. Rabbi Richman is the host of Israel National Radio’s Temple Talk podcast.

The chief executive of a group that produced a wildly popular video about African warlord Joseph Kony answered its critics on Monday with a second film on YouTube, defending its tactics and spending practices.

“I understand why a lot of people are wondering, ‘Is this just some slick, kind of fly-by-night, slacktivist thing?’ when actually it’s not at all,” said Ben Keesey of Invisible Children. “It’s connected to a really deep, thoughtful, very intentional and strategic campaign.”

In an online video that runs more than eight minutes, Keesey acknowledges the sting of criticism since Invisible Children released the video “Kony 2012” last week, becoming an internet sensation with nearly 75 million views on YouTube alone. The overnight success has earned the San Diego-based non-profit organisation widespread praise and brought heightened scrutiny.

The group has been criticised for not spending enough directly on the people it intends to help and for oversimplifying the 26-year-old conflict involving the Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader, Kony, a bush fighter wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Keesey, 28, said “program expenses” – money that directly benefits their cause – accounted for 80.5 per cent to 85.7 per cent of total annual spending from fiscal 2007 to 2011. Overhead expenses grew last year, largely due to a $330,000 private foundation grant that was designated specifically for operations.

“This is actually a really good thing to help Invisible Children continue to be more efficient and to increase the quality of our work for years in the future,” he said.

Keesey said travel and transportation expenses – which totalled more than $1 million last year – include costs for 3,000 free movie screenings a year to spread the word about Kony and the LRA.

“Some people have characterised that and said, ‘Is that just the management team flying around and staying in nice hotels. No, not at all. That’s totally not true,” he said.

Production costs -more than $850,000 last year – have been another target for critics. Keesey said those costs are for items like T-shirts, DVDs and bracelets “that fund all of our work.”

Invisible Children reported revenues of $13.8 million last year – aided by a $2 million contribution from The Oprah Winfrey Foundation – up from $8.3 million a year earlier, according to its Internal Revenue Service filing. Expenses grew to $8.9 million from $8.1 million, yielding a surplus of $4.9 million.

The campaign to get Joseph Kony arrested is a case study in how the web has changed political campaigning, says Matt Warman.

From the Countryside Alliance to Big Brother Watch, there have always been single issue campaigns. But thanks to the internet every single housing development seems to attract a Facebook page devoted to opposing it – when the barriers to entry are so low, in terms of both costs and expertise required, the web offers the chance to galvanise a global audience.

Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign, however, has taken that idea to a whole new level: a single, half an hour film has been watched more than 52 million times, its viral growth driven by Facebook and Twitter.

It’s hard to believe every one of those millions has watched the whole film, but key to the campaign has been a compelling story: Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army has terrorised the people of Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere. The campaign to see him brought to trial in The Hague has already been supported by US President Barack Obama and countless others – bringing pop stars such as Rihanna on board is not a radical approach.

But what is shocking is the scale and the speed of Kony 2012’s success, and the speed with which it has come under unprecedented criticism. Suddenly campaigners Invisible Children are forced to be more open than previously – and the apparent urgency of capturing Kony has shot up the news agenda.

The film itself is longer than most, but that doesn’t immediately make it appealing. If there’s a single reason that it has succeeded where others have failed, it’s probably simply that it managed to gain momentum, fuelled by its powerful subject matter. Attracting the attention of enough people, in the massive internet, is down as much to good luck as it is to good planning.

And when it comes to planning, the methods behind these apparent successes are, in truth, simple enough: make a great film, in this case with filmmaker Jason Russell, that highlights the 66,000 child soldiers and the 2 million people displaced by the LRA. Thereafter, simply take advantage of an existing base of supporters to push a theme that rightly tugs on the heartstrings. Within hours, millions more people are aware of the horrors perpetrated by the LRA.

At that point, however, two issues arise: with more awareness comes more scrutiny: Invisible Children has been forced to respond to claims that it spends too much money making videos and not enough making strides towards its stated goals. To be fair to the group, they have been keen to respond in detail and in public.

But there’s a second, moral issue to such single issue campaigns: Britain’s anti-foxhunting legislation was important to the Government of the day, for instance, but Tony Blair cited the excessive time it took up in parliament as the single greatest regret of his premiership. And the resulting laws are now widely seen as fundamentally flawed.

Now, too, the #stopkony Twitter hashtag has a global prominence, it seems likely that the issue will indeed get more attention.

But the internet, for all that it contains all the world’s information in one place, has turned complex African and global politics into a single issue. The world wants to #stopkony but the long list of complex issues that need solutions remain as long it ever was. More people may now know about Joseph Kony – but the web has not helped us to work out whether the campaign to capture him really is now more important than it was just a few days ago.

Israelis should think carefully about whether they want such a concentrated Palestinian power on their eastern border, General Mansour Abu Rashid, chairman of the Amman Center for Peace and Development, said in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Abu Rashid’s comments at the Truman Institute came in response to a statement by Dr. Assaf David, who declared that there is an increasing Israeli movement to the political right which sees Jordan as an alternative homeland to the Palestinians. Dr. David has engaged in dialogue on several levels with the Jordanians.

Abu Rashid, the former head of Jordanian intelligence, was a participant in a symposium co-hosted by the Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace and the Israeli Council on Foreign Relations to honor the memory of Dave Kimche, who had been a central figure in the Mossad, director-general of the Foreign Ministry, a member of the board of trustees at the Truman Center, the founding president of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, and a dedicated peace activist.

Abu Rashid, who enjoyed a 20-year friendship with Kimche, with whom he collaborated on various peace projects, said that 81,000 people have already crossed from Syria to Jordan, where they were being treated as visitors, not as refugees. Jordan already has to cope with 400,000 Palestinians who came from Kuwait, 700,000 Iraqis, Sudanese, and people who came from other parts of the region. It simply can not take in Palestinians from Syria.

“Jordan is fearful of expecting Palestinian refugees from Syria. They have neither the resources nor the infrastructure to accommodate them,” said Abu Rashid.

The Arabic Caliphate is not a figment of the imagination anymore: fragments of the Middle Eastern regimes will soon form a group of islands called The Muslim Archipelago.

“A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of Communism.”

These were the first words of Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”. More than a century later a different specter has appeared on the threshold of the Old World: the Specter of the Caliphate.

A year ago Muhammad Badie — the General Guide of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood — stated: “improvement and change that the Muslim nation seeks can only be attained through jihad and sacrifice and by raising a jihadi generation that pursues death, just as the enemies pursue life”.

According to Badie, the ultimate purpose of Arabs is to restore the true face of the Muslim world, which is the State of the Caliphate with Sharia Laws — the sacred and the highest form of human civilization.

Muslim theologians’ standpoint has its own logic. Why would the Arabs adopt social systems alien to them and imposed on them less than a century ago — whether it is democracy, market economy or socialism?

Moreover, they are familiar with the consequences of political experimentation in the recent past.

Liberal democracy? What is the practical meaning of it? The absence of Divine basis, shape, content? Desecration of God and His order? Refusal of values as the supreme value? Rejecting roots as a sacred principle?

Desperate loneliness: “We are left alone, without excuse”? (Jean-Paul Sartre).

The triumph of “the substantial emptiness”? (Ulrich Beck).

Sexual laxity and perversions as an example to follow?

In order to understand someone you need to see the world through their eyes. The liberal freedoms are a blessing for the West and a mockery of the will of the Creator for Muslims. The Islamists’ victory in last elections in Egypt wasn’t the result of brainwashing, but of a deep inner conviction.

The Arab world is ready for the State of Caliphate. It will resemble the theocracy in Saudi Arabia and Iran: the rough laws of “dhimmi” for the non-Muslims (who will survive the slaughter), the submission of women, stoning for adultery, prohibition of usury and homosexuality.

A veteran member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Ahmad Gad called “honorable Al-Azhar to rally the Islamic streams in order to unite the Muslim word and effort, restore the Caliphate… O Allah, guide us, open our hearts to faith, and restore this nation to its previous self — one united nation worshiping You and You alone”.

Dr. Kamal Al-Helbawy, former Muslim Brotherhood spokesman in the West named this future Caliphate — “the United States of Islam”. He implied that Arabs want to erase borders that were drawn up by imperialist nations and build global Islamic State.

This is how another Egyptian Islamic Scholar Ibrahim Al-Khouli has formulated the concept of the Muslim Brotherhood: “Forget about Bin Laden and Al Qaida. That’s not what I’m talking about. I am talking about Jihad which is led by the Islamic scholars … I am talking about the Jihad of the entire nation. We must conduct jihad against the West, who are aggressors against the Land of Islam”.

One can talk about the democratization of the Arab world, the “Arab Spring”, and liberalization of the Arab society. However, this observation is only external — from another Time and another World — from the West of the XXI century. An internal perspective is completely different. It’s derived from depths of centuries, and it is reflected in the lexis of Badie and Gad, Al-Helbawy and Al-Khouli, Sheikh Yousef Qaradawi (“Constantinople was conquered in 1453 by a 23-year-old Ottoman named Muhammad ibn Murad, whom we call Muhammad the Conqueror. Now what remains is to conquer Rome”) and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Muhammad Ahmad Hussein who said: “The Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. … Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs (i.e.,Jews) is a war of religion and faith”.

Lastly, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani declared that no efforts will be spared to spread Wahhabi Islam across the world, encouraging Jihad while investing €50 million in restoring Sharia in the French suburbs where hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants reside.

Al-Thani is considered a moderate pro-western ruler. A year ago this type of discourse would have been considered unthinkable. Nowadays these words are not only uttered, but are also validated by donations and financial support. Why one may ask? It is because al-Thani wants to be on the “right side of history”. The time has come. All the obstacles, such as corrupt authoritarian regimes, towards the cherished dream have been scattered like sand dunes with the draft of khamsin.

Just like the Jews are longing to return to Jerusalem ; the Christians are awaiting for the Second Coming of Christ and the kingdom of universal justice so the Arabs are yearning to restore Caliphate for centuries. Caliphate — a theocratic state — was the first and only authentic state in the Arab history, the embodiment of the Divine will.

Sharia Laws determine the internal structure of this state, Jihad – its foreign policy. Recently only starry-eyed professors, charmed by the Sufi spiritual practices, have been talking about Jihad as a self-improvement. Jihad, however is not a spiritual improvement, it is the fulfillment of the Divine will, and whatever is not a part of the “The House of Islam” (Dar al-Islam) is actually the “The House of War” (Dar al-Harb).

There hasn’t been any dispute about the supremacy of Sharia Laws and the divine destiny of the Caliphate. Dividing Islam into “moderate” and “radical” is the flight of imagination of Western intellectuals who confuse, primarily, themselves. Islam (like two other Abrahamic religions) is a fundamentalist one, i.e., literally interprets holy scripture.

Only in the XVII-XVIII centuries in Christianity (and later, influenced by the Enlightenment, in Judaism too) more liberal directions, treating the Bible in allegorical terms, have appeared. In general, the orthodoxy does not accept any abstraction. It is based on the concrete prophetic word.

Creator is anthropomorphic in all three religions; He is not an impersonal substance of Deists and the harmonious deity of Neo-Platonists. He establishes the laws and obliges obeying them. Sacred texts about the triumph of Islam “by the means of Jihad” are not an intention, they are a call to action.

Creating a Caliphate will, obviously, take time. Primarily, it’s necessary to neutralize the resistance of the military junta in Egypt, to eliminate the anarchy in Libya , to sweep away the regime in Syria, to crush the Hashemite monarchy and overthrow the rotten Palestinian leadership, suppress ethnic riots and stop the advancement of the Shiites in Iraq and Lebanon. Secondly, it is essential to affirm the principles of Sharia Laws in the minds of people, since these still exist in the collective consciousness as vague ideas. Finally, only then the scattered islands will be united into a single religious and cultural realm with the main goal — the beginning of Jihad.

Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis are not in a hurry. Sheikh Ahmad Gad said “There is no hope for reform without a return to divine rule, which the Creator chose for man…There is no other way but gradual action, preparing the souls and setting an example, so that faith will enter their hearts…”.

Unlike the European people, the Arabs can wait, but they also know how to mobilize their forces. “Be patient if you are an anvil. Be swift if you are a hammer” — says Arabic wisdom. It took Prophet Muhammad two decades to create Islamic Caliphate in the Arabian Peninsula, and it took his followers less than a decade to conquer Persia , Egypt , and to corner the mighty Byzantine Empire.

“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come” — Victor Hugo wrote.

If you want liberal democracy for Arabs, you will get the State of the Caliphate in your own house.