{"id":7953,"date":"2011-07-28T21:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T05:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2011-07-28T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:59:55","slug":"muslim-call-in-jerusalem-for-a-caliphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/religious-news\/muslim-call-in-jerusalem-for-a-caliphate\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Call in Jerusalem for a Caliphate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/jerusalem.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Jerusalem <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Calls for an Islamic caliphate are increasing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Radical Islamists Trying to Take Over Temple  Mount<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Israel National News<\/strong> &#8211; July 28,  2011<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">On the 90th anniversary of the fall of the Ottoman  Empire, the vast Islamic Caliphate regime which fell in 1921 after WWI,  thousands of members of the Radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir rallied  on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. <strong>They called for Muslims to unite and  embrace the Caliphate rulership once more.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">The rally took place in early July. Demonstrators  flew banners bearing inscriptions such as \u201cThe Ummah (Muslims) Want Muslim  Caliphates.\u201d  A giant banner was put up in the Al Aksa mosque courtyard on the  Temple Mount. Other banners said \u201cNo to Democracy, Yes to Caliphates&#8221;. The crowd  controller, using a microphone, soon had the crowd chanting over and over, \u201cO  Muslim armies, awaken to help Muslims.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/146168\" href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/146168\">http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/146168<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Muslim Brotherhood has long called for such a caliphate government:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the group\u2019s belief, the Quran and Sunnah constitute a   perfect way  of life and social and political organization that God has   set out for  man. Islamic governments must be based on this system and   eventually  unified in a Caliphate. The Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s goal, as   stated by  Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna was to reclaim Islam\u2019s   manifest  destiny, an empire, stretching from Spain to Indonesia. (Wikipedia).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The title caliph has been given to the head of state                in Muslim-governed countries in the past, and we in the Living Church of God have been warning that one may form again with a caliph or Mahdi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The supreme office of caliph,  originally elective, became hereditary&#8230;Eventually&#8230;caliphs became  figurehead or &#8220;puppet&#8221; leaders&#8230;Many Arabs&#8230;seek to re-create the  political and theological unity of the early Islamic caliphate (Stump K.  The Arab World in Prophecy. Plain Truth, December 1979, pp. 9-10).<\/p>\n<p>Al Qaeda named its    Internet newscast, which debuted in  September, \u2018The Voice of    the Caliphate.\u2019&#8230;Kerem   Acar, a tailor in central Istanbul {said}  \u2018&#8230;one day maybe my children\u2019s children will see   someone declare  himself the caliph, like the pope, and have an impact\u2019\u201d   (January 14,  2006).<\/p>\n<p>Indeed,   a coming \u201cMahdi\u201d whose arrival Muslims are expecting\u2014in  Bible prophecy   known as the \u201cKing of the South\u201d (Daniel 11:40\u201345)\u2014will  soon arise and   have a dramatic impact on world events. This powerful  Muslim religious   leader will unite many of the mor<em>e <\/em>tha<em>n <\/em>on<em>e <\/em>billio<em>n <\/em>Muslims. He will pose a genuin<em>e <\/em>threat to the coming European Empire, which will have to crus<em>h <\/em>that  threat in order to continue exploiting Middle Eastern oil to further  its military ambitions. (Meredith RC. Prophecy Fulfilled: God&#8217;s Hand in  World Affairs. LCG Booklet, 2007, pp. 16-17)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A trans-national Arab\/Islamic federation with a caliph\/mahdi leading it would would essentially be considered a caliphate.\u00a0 This is very similar to the type of confederation that the Bible warns will happen in the future (Psalm 83) and seems to be similar to the prophesies for the final King of the South in biblical prophecy (Daniel 11:27-43).<\/p>\n<p>So, if a caliphate ever forms, it is possible that this will fulfill various end time biblical prophecies (Psalm 83; Daniel 11:27-43).<\/p>\n<p>I have been writing for a long time that I suspect that many Muslims will not be satisfied with semi-secular governments in and recently forming in the Arab world and will agitate until they get a trans-national leader, like a caliph\/imam mahdi.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the calls for a caliph now are getting louder suggests that perhaps not too far into the future, that is what will happen.<\/p>\n<p><em>To learn more about what will happen to the Arabic peoples, please check out the first two articles:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/south.htm\">Is There A Future King of the South?<\/a> Some no longer believe there needs to be. Might Egypt, Islam, Iran,  Arabs, or Ethiopia be involved? Might this King be called the Mahdi?  What does the Bible say?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/arabprophecy.htm\">The Arab and Islamic World In the Bible, History, and Prophecy<\/a> The Bible discusses the origins of the Arab world and discusses the  Middle East in prophecy.  What is ahead for the Middle East and those  who follow Islam?         What about the Imam Mahdi? What lies ahead for  Turkey, Iran, and the other non-Arabic Muslims?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/when-will-the-great-tribulation-begin.htm\">Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2011, 2012, or 2013?<\/a> Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great  Tribulation in the &#8220;beginning of sorrows&#8221;? Why do people think the Bible teaches about a peace deal? What happens in the Great  Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles?  When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the  Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem COGwriter Calls for an Islamic caliphate are increasing: Radical Islamists Trying to Take Over Temple Mount Israel National News &#8211; July 28, 2011 On the 90th anniversary of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the vast Islamic Caliphate regime which fell in 1921 after WWI, thousands of members of the Radical Islamist organization Hizb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7955,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}