Thursday, March 3, 2011

May the Islamic Caliphate Be Forever Dead

Today, March 3rd, in 1924 the Islamic Caliphate in what is now Turkey, ended. The world owes a debt of gratitude to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first President of Turkey. He was the revolutionary statesman that created the country of Turkey as a secular state out of the ashes of the Caliphate after WW1. This set back the goals of radical Muslims by proving that Muslims can be prosperous and western without losing their culture. Secular Turkey also created a buffer zone between the radical Muslims and the west. Without which Europe would be Islamic today.

There are many economic, and human rights issues that I do not agree with Mustafa Kemal about. The important thing is what he got right. Radical Muslims that want to kill everyone, including themselves can be overcome by the right leader. And in so doing, that leader can make the world a better, more peaceful place.

This is important to note when today the Muslim world is rioting against their governments. These riots are primarily caused by the rising cost of food worldwide. The wildfires in Russia and droughts throught Asia and Europe has caused the price of wheat and other staple foods to increase dramatically. In fact Russia has stopped exporting wheat. 

The price of food was just the tipping point. All of these riots are organized by the opportunistic Muslim Brotherhood, an international organization that has as it’s stated goal to create a new Islamic Caliphate. The Caliphate by definition, in the Koran, is a religious state with the worst possible set of rules for everyone except the rulers. Husbands are commanded to beat their wives, everyone has to follow the will of the Mufti on pain of death, and petty crimes are punished with grisly amputations and stonings. This is not the type of world that I want to live in, and I thank Mustafa Kemal Atatürk that I did not have to grow up in such a world. I pray that there is another leader in the Muslim world that can do a similar thing for Egypt, Libya, and the rest of the Muslim countries that overthrow their leadership. 

May the Islamic Caliphate be forever dead. Thank you Mustafa Kemal Atatürk!

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