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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:05:21 -0700, Jantero wrote:

> Good Moslems permeate their day-to-day thinking with references to a
> supernatural being, and their fundamentalists would prefer a caliphate
> theocracy as a form of government.
> 

My understanding,  and I know you'll correct me if I'm wrong,  is that 
the Sunni Caliph would be a secular leader and this has been the case for 
well over 1000 years.

The Shia still mourn the death of the Caliph Ali and require the return 
of a Madhi for the restoration of the empire.

I have no idea what form of government the Sufi would like,  but I'm sure 
you'll tell me...

-- 
"Hopefully the fair wind will resume, or this may well take all day."

Admiral Collingwood on being becalmed under the guns of six French ships-
of-the-line at Trafalgar