Persoanlly sure, but as a society? No, everything would be crashing down and we would resort back to tribes.. Becuase we could never handle having all communications and the like plucked from us.

sSubZerOo

:D Oh relax. Humans have been dependent upon electricity for less than a fraction of human history. I think we'd survive fine without it as we had prior to the turn of the 20th century.

Tous Les Matins du Monde. C'est un superb film.

Its a pretty terrible idea. Nasser was onto something with his secular Arabic independence movement. Case in point: Turkey, now doing exceedingly well as a secular islamic country, although the EU admittedly had to push a lot of the reforms and put the gov under great pressure to stop the violence against kurds. Hell, even Cyprus is doing pretty well these days.

What The middle east needs is strong secular leadership which focuses on teaching the real Islam, not that radical BS, the economy and welfare/healthcare. Also can't be racist either. And that doesn't look like its going to happen without ouitside interference (by which I do not mean a freakin war.)

lyeti

The Umayyad Caliphate was pretty secular compared to the rest, and it was also during this time that the Islamic Empire became the most powerful.

I think the last thing the middle east needs is a new caliphate. Back in the day, the middle east was one of the most advanced regions in the world in terms of science and technology. Then much of it became too fundamentalist and now lags behind most of the world. They need to drop the hardcore religous ideology and become more tolerant and more open to technology. It's not a good thing to be against the whole modern world.

sonicare

Back when they were the most advanced civilization in the world, they were ruled under the Caliphate. They had freedom of speech against religion and the government as well.

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By that logic, anybody who doesn't hold experience in a particular area has no right to an opinion? What?

Kill all extremists, no mercy. They hate us already, it's me or them, better be them.

Theokhoth

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't pay too much attention to some fool ignorant of philosophy speaking on that very topic.

Indeed.

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It is a shame that they are in a country which they do not belong in, but they serve our Queen, and that is an honourable duty.

You're straw-manning my argument, saying that my support for a Caliphate is simply asking everyone in the Middle-East to hold-hands and unite, which is absolutely ridiculous and an insult to my intelligence. If you wish to have a reasonable argument, then simply be reasonable. ;)

The journey toward a Caliphate is not an easy one, and will indeed result in much blood-shed, whether with involvement with the West or the Western figureheads running many of the MIddle-Eastern countries. However, the end result is stability which has not been seen since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (caused by Western external and internal involvement).

Yeah, it's a damn shame Canada is just marching in on their soil. But what can you tell those crazy maple-sucking canucks?Setsa

It is a shame that they are in a country which they do not belong in, but they serve our Queen, and that is an honourable duty.

It is my observation that the Middle-East is in grave need of a new Caliphate to unite the Islamic countries under one ruler. So long as they are separated, the Western Nations will continue to take land from them and abuse their countries.

I serve the Queen, and I'm a Conservative Monarchist. I await the arrival of the new King and the changes that will bring.

Perhaps if God told me to do it. . .