Pros And Cons Of Al-Baghdadi Caliphate

Since the abolishment of the caliphate by Ataturk in 1924, Islamic society has moved on from the institution, with Muslims around the world integrating themselves into different political systems and finding a new means of finding community. As a result, the resurgence of the caliphate as an institutions, meant to achieve unity within the Muslim community, is instead doing the opposite via the Islamic State (ISIS), which is damaging Islam for its own political gain. This notion is supported in the way ISIS is only selecting certain aspects of the old traditions to emulate, and the way in which it is using the idea of the caliphate despite there being a lack of consensus amongst Muslims. The attempts by ISIS to return to the traditional ways

To solidify his position as caliph, al-Baghdadi uses the old tradition of stating that he is tied to the tribe of Muhammad, the Quraysh. Despite all that al-Baghdadi is attempting to accomplish, there are many flaws in the logic that he is using, especially the fact that there is no consensus within the Islamic community regarding the claims that he has made as the leader of ISIS. Notably, despite organizations such as al-Qaeda being intrigued by the concept of a united Islamic State based out of Arabia, they do not appear to view such things as viable. Specifically, rather than focusing on aiding ISIS in its fight to form a united Islamic state, they are focused on achieving these goals based on their own framework of how to achieve that

Out of the chaos of the Arab Spring and all the failed states associated with it, ISIS found a stronghold; by waiting until the authoritarian governments collapsed, they were able to take hold of many cities so as to form their own makeshift state. Furthermore, ISIS was in essence aided by Western forces, due to certain countries, notably the United States, attempting to instigate a proxy war between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam during the Iraq invasion in 2003. The aftermath of these actions embellished ISIS further, thus enticing certain jihadist groups to assemble behind them to form the “new” caliphate. While certain jihadist groups took this stance, others, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, appear to be in oppose their claim due to it contradicting Islamic law. Specifically, ISIS lacks the necessary conditions to be rightfully titled the caliphate, for they have no state which is governed by sharia, and lack unity with other Islamic