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Off topic, but interesting

Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish Moslem author, has a very interesting post entitled What Would The Caliph Do?" The terrorist movement has as one of its objects the re-establishment of the Caliphate, and Akyol points out that the last Caliphs were actually very pro-American. His brief discussion of history at the end is interesting as well (The abolition of the caliphate, and subsequent secularization of Turkey, led directly to the conflict with the Kurds, and the resurgence of Wahhabism, which undlies the beliefs of the current terrorists).