Two weeks and one day ago, I commented in my weekly "News and Views from the Nefarium"(March 1, 2012), about a planned global conference in Austria to discuss the theme of the restoration of a universal Muslim Caliphate, a pan-Islamic state hearkening back to the glories of the Muslim Caliphate of Baghdad, conjuring images of Caliph Harun al-Rashid and the days when Muslim scholars and phiosophers were inventing algebra and discussing Aristotle. THat conference was to be hosted by the Hizb-ut-Tahrir party, as I noted in my comments. Well, one of you forwarded me - on the very same day as I … [Read more...]