Sorry, but that kind of kumbaya, “humanity” eco-religious, can’t-we-all-just-get-along sentiment betrays a superficial grasp of the forces at work in the world.

Sorry, but that kind of kumbaya, “humanity” eco-religious, can’t-we-all-just-get-along sentiment betrays a superficial grasp of the forces at work in the world. Geopolitically, when the Ottoman Empire fell, so did the caliphate. Nothing since the OE has taken the place of that caliphate (ISIS had made an attempt). The Arab states can’t form that sort of caliphate because there’s too much infighting, so the Turks are the only realistic option from a historical perspective. Secular Turkey is not a stable or long term solution and a century is not a very long time. All of this is to say that the past century long interlude is actually unusual for the Islamic world so we’re really returning to the historical norm. Islam lost the battle in WWI, but it does not accept having lost the war. It cannot because then it would not be Islam.