Tallaabo Posted March 13, 2013 Following the election of a new pope for the 1.2 billion strong Roman Catholics in the world, give your opinion of what the Muslim world would look like if we also had a hierarchy and a caliph like our Christian counterparts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naxar Nugaaleed Posted March 14, 2013 its all hype, who listens to the pope anyways. he will struggle dealing with Vatican bureaucracy let alone affecting the daily live of Catholic Christians. Best he can hope for, a few really cheerful trips to mexico and the rest of latin america. As for Muslims, the decentralized clergy is has been really a good thing, imagine the competing theology of shias, salafis, sufis, ahmadis, druze, alawites, ismacilis, sunnis (shaficis, hanbalis, malakis...). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naxar Nugaaleed Posted March 14, 2013 ibadi, Yazdânism , kharijites and quran only peeps Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tallaabo Posted March 14, 2013 ^ You got a point NN. That is the problem I also thought would make it impossible for us to have a single caliph. Moreover, given the Muslim people's lust for power, the caliph would never stay apolitical or neutral and would in no time transform into another political despot. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
