Quotes About Caliphate

#1. The Islamic State's leaders proclaimed the establishment of God's kingdom on earth, called the caliphate. Prophecy was fulfilled, they said, and Judgment Day approached.

William McCants

#2. ISIS has a caliphate the size of Indiana! Also, US military has been totally gutted. Can't even project power anymore.

Jeb Bush

#3. Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

Isaac D'Israeli

#4. Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Richard Engel

#5. The Umayyad caliphate stretched from Spain to India, making it the largest empire in the world

Firas Alkhateeb

#6. Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

Jeb Bush

#7. He also gives a good picture of the profound chaos unleashed in Muslim countries in 1924 by Ataturk's sudden abolition of the caliphate, an institution they had superficially not taken much notice of but which was central to a Muslim's whole identity.

Tom Reiss

#8. I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that's the concern I have over pace.

Adam Schiff

#9. During Uthman's caliphate, a Muslim embassy was sent to China to establish diplomatic relations

Firas Alkhateeb

#10. Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana.

Jeb Bush

#11. Middle East by the Arab Muslim caliphate, ending with Muslim fragmentation and the Iranian Buyid capture of Abbasid Baghdad, saw Muslim and Maronite establishment in Mount Lebanon.

William Harris

#12. A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate,

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#13. Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence.

Maajid Nawaz

#14. We need to destroy ISIS in the caliphate. That's - that should be our objective. The refugee issue will be solved if we destroy ISIS there, which means we need to have a no-fly zone, safe zones there for refugees and to build a military force.

Jeb Bush

#15. Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

David Hackworth

#16. If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Siraj Wahhaj

#17. The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

Agona Apell

#18. If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

David Selbourne

#19. More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

Barack Obama

#20. We have to destroy their caliphate because that gives them legitimacy to go ahead with the global Jihad. We have to take their energy because they are - ISIS is the richest terrorist organization there is.

Benjamin Carson

#21. Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

Richard Engel

#22. The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

William Muir

#23. Idiotic Lord Blakley," she groused.

"And how many tmes have I said it?" said a voice. "It's 'idiotic Gareth' to you.

Courtney Milan

#24. The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.

Roy Peter Clark

#25. I could help you," I said. "Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Janet Evanovich

#26. I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

David Morse

#27. People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

Christine Quinn

#28. Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Simon Cottee

#29. Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

W.P. Kinsella

#30. Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

Andrea Gibson

#31. I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

Mick Ronson

#32. The value of time is only equal to the value of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#33. It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

Mary Doria Russell

#34. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

Anne Fortier