A modern day Caliphate - How realistic is it?

[Thinker]

HT= Hizb ut Tahrir

I sent them an email asking why they were based in the UK i.e. why are a bunch of Muslims fighting for a Caliphate for all Muslims not based in a Muslim country. They replied that they had other offices in Muslim countries. . . I emailed them back asking them where those other offices were and why one of those wasn't their HQ and they didn't reply!!

 

[alcurad]

are we arguing semantics here? what exactly IS this khilafa? are you suggesting that the way it was done before is how the creator ordained governments to be?
there is no evidence for whatever khilafa is meant, it is an arabic term, that's all there is to it.
something like the US or the EU would be a step forward, but a muslim papacy ruled by the 'rightly guided' clergy is anything but Islamic.

 

[greenshirt]

it would be great if we could establish a caliphate. but with all the different muslim countries these days, it would be really hard. many countries have their own healthcare systems and their own tax regulations. also if we had one unified caliphate then what would the migration deal be like? will more prosperous areas like dubai be filled with people and would people leave pakistan and other poorer countries? and we know this would cause problems to have such mass migrations.

and not only that but will the caliph be a sufi or not? many muslims(most in pakistan) are sufi and would oppose to having a salafi caliph. but if we have a salafi caliph he would be opposed to the ashari aqeedah which some say if you follow takes you out of islam.

i hope and pray that a Caliphate will be established. we desperately need this. we need a society that can be regulated to minimize fitnah and that could work in the interests of our religion.

but is it realistically going to happen? i dont know. i hope so! but sometimes hope is not always realistic. at least for a certain time or under certain implication

 

[Dawud_uk]

it would be great if we could establish a caliphate. but with all the different muslim countries these days, it would be really hard. many countries have their own healthcare systems and their own tax regulations. also if we had one unified caliphate then what would the migration deal be like? will more prosperous areas like dubai be filled with people and would people leave pakistan and other poorer countries? and we know this would cause problems to have such mass migrations.

and not only that but will the caliph be a sufi or not? many muslims(most in pakistan) are sufi and would oppose to having a salafi caliph. but if we have a salafi caliph he would be opposed to the ashari aqeedah which some say if you follow takes you out of islam.

i hope and pray that a Caliphate will be established. we desperately need this. we need a society that can be regulated to minimize fitnah and that could work in the interests of our religion.

but is it realistically going to happen? i dont know. i hope so! but sometimes hope is not always realistic. at least for a certain time or under certain implication

look at what happened in afghanistan, a deobandi movement - the taliban supported by the salafiyyah through arms, mujahideen and money.

so it can happen, there are differences which are acceptable and differences which are not.