01 July 2014

Meet Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new Caliph of Islam

.... The aim of the caliphate is to usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ or ‘Islamic House of Peace’. But history only shows its constituents eventually turning in on each other. We must ask what security is offered by such a system (for non-Muslims and Muslims) when it could not even protect Muhammad’s own family from itself?

Today the death toll of just Shias caused by Shia-Sunni infighting stands at over a million, and the fighting is yet to stop. [Left Foot Forward] Read more