Fourteen years before Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords and the UAE’s normalisation with “Israel”, the present writer was pleased to hear the following:
“It’s a major problem [the lack of a central authority] because Islam in its classical formation recognises the idea of a caliphate. In the absence of the caliphate, it’s just open game in terms of religious authority, so it’s a real problem and we’re suffering from it.”
[‘Shaykh’ Hamza Yusuf, Doha Debates Special Event: Extremism; February 28, 2006]
In sharp contrast, the present writer was disgusted when, years later, as the ongoing Genocide began, the ‘Shaykh’ gave this now-infamous interview, in which he expresses sympathy for Netanyahu (!):
The most disturbing part can be viewed here (notice how he refers to Masjid al-Aqsa as the “Temple Mount”):
Dear noble reader – do I need to say any more?
The Caliphate 