The pot is boiling in the Middle East. In Egypt, the big problem is a conflict for power between the church and state. The Muslims want a caliphate, which means church leaders choose the leader. They sell this idea to the masses by teaching them for centuries that Allah is the leader and no one can vote him out of power. The only difference between biblical law and sharia law is a name: God verses Allah. Those competing with Allah for power are the people. After centuries of religious leaders telling the people Allah is all-powerful, how can people cast a vote for a mere mortal; to them it makes no sense. I have no idea how they chose who will be the religious leader in a Muslim society but in the Vatican, only cardinals, not the people, vote for the pope so I suppose the same happens with Muslims. To argue otherwise with any of these people would be like arguing with a nicotine addict about smoking.
Go one more step in this chain of logic. They are killing one another over this. This is a religious war within the confines of a sovereign state, which makes it a civil war; other nations should have no business being involved but the religious aspect negates this. Other Muslim nations are involved; in fact, the Middle East is in turmoil over this one point. Think of it this way, atheist are the most unpopular group in America so I assume the same would be true in Egypt as well, but what if everyone in the Middle East were to give up their belief in Allah, would we have war in Egypt. We can have secular law without religion but we cannot have a caliphate. The conclusion seems to be that if we put the most hated group in charge and we will have peace. It’s a crazy world we live in.
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