The death of the Ottoman Empire in 1917 was a big blow to the Arab Muslims. The Imperial Caliphate was a symbolic system of government representative of Islamic influence, power and unity. To early Islamic hardliners, the collapse of the Ottoman empire ended the almost half a millennium one-kingdom rule of the Islamic religion. It meant a lot of things: no more Islamic invasion, no more aggressive proselytization, no more single authoritative entity to represent Islam in the global stage, no more expansive powers for the religious clerics, among others. In 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded by Hassan al-Banna, an Egyptian Islamic leader, and his five brothers. The brothers pledged to live and die for Islam. However, the Brotherhood was suppressed by the semi-secular government of Egypt. In fact, Egyptian President Nasser, who tried to invade Israel in 1947 and in 1967 (both attempts failed), suppressed the Brotherhood and executed one of its influential leaders, Sayyid Qutb. Nasser clearly understood the threat of the theocratic movement. Qutb, the acknowledged intellectual leader and philosopher of the Muslim Brotherhood, wanted to establish a new Ottoman Empire. His life’s vision was to establish a global Islamic Caliphate through global jihad. He strongly hated Western civilization and the United States. He wrote in his book titled ‘Islam and the Problem of Civilization’: “What should be our verdict on this synthetic [Western] civilization? What should be done about America and the West, given their overwhelming danger to humanity…? Should we not issue a sentence of death? Is it not the verdict most appropriate to the nature of the crime?” fvdb.wordpress/2012/11/23/israel-vs-new-ottoman-empire-state-sovereignty-vs-imperial-islam/
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