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Does the World Need a Caliphate?

Zealots at the Gate

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The Practicalities of the Caliphate

Dijhah is concerned primarily with political influence and then an opportunity for conversion rather than actual forced conversions. We don't have a missionary movement in history. Dictatorship is the fundamental evil in the Middle East. That's what we have to push back against. You have to basically believe in democracy as your religion despite all the failures. To me, I'd better have some kind of guarantee, some kind of higher power telling me that this is worth it.

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