Reader Bala Ambati sent a link to the web site of an Islamic group in London (loaded with tricky, useless, slow-running Javascript) that makes no attempt to hide its ultimate goal: the establishment of an Islamic State (or Khilafa) that rules the entire world. They explain quite clearly that it is every Muslim’s duty to work towards the establishment of the Khilafa.

After years of James Bond, Austin Powers, the Man From UNCLE, and Maxwell Smart, it’s hard not to laugh. “Rule the world.” Yeah, right.

Well, it’s doubtful they’ll succeed, but this group—which appears to be quite well connected, from their “About Us” page—is trying, for real, to make this happen. And they spend a lot of time thinking about it, as we see on this page under “Islamic Topics:” How Does Islam Classify Lands?

There are many types of Dar in Islam either attributed to Dar ul Islam or Dar ul Kufr. The law and 0rder makes land Dar Ul-Islam or Dar Ul-Kufr. Imam Kasani reported from Abu Hanifa that he said: Dar Ul-Islam will be so even if all the people are kafir as long as the law and order is Islamic and security is in the hands of the Muslims.. Many people try to say that we are living under Dar ul Harb today and that as such the citizens in, for example the UK or Egypt have no sanctity for their lives or property etc. A detailed look at the types of Dar in Islam however will allow us to appreciate that firstly they in grave error and secondly that in fact the concept of Dar is not as simplistic as these people would have us believe.

When there exists an Islamic state there is Dar ul Islam. The definition of an Islamic State according to the classical scholars such as Imam Kalkashandi and Imam Marwardi is: The absolute highest authority for the Muslims worldwide which implements Islam internally and externally and carries Islam to the world. Clearly no country meets this criteria today and since it is the Khalifah himself who will ultimately enter in treaties with other nations or declare war on them there can exist no Dar ul Harb today either, rather the whole world today is Dar ul kufr. Dar ul Harb (land of war) is an attribute of Dar ul Kufr and will not exist in the absence of Dar ul Islam. Upon the establishment of the Islamic state the whole world will potentially be Dar ul Harb outside of the state’s frontiers since the foreign policy of the Islamic State is aimed at conquering the world.

Dar ul Harb consists of every country not ruled by this lunatic totalitarian Islamic State. If you live in such a country, and will not submit to Islamic law (sharia), here’s what they have in mind for you:

Once the Islamic State is established anyone in Dar Al Harb will have no sanctity for his life or wealth hence a Muslim in such circumstances can then go into Dar Al Harb and take the wealth from the people unless there is a treaty with that state. If there is no treaty individual Muslims can even go to Dar Al Harb and take women to keep as slaves.

Far be it from me to give advice to our enlightened multi-culturally sensitive European cousins. But aren’t you just a wee bit worried that this is taking place in London, right out in the open?

Elsewhere on the site, you can find out the current status of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie, who is, unfortunately, under permanent death sentence. (They hedge about who is allowed to carry out the sentence.) But look on the bright side. If he repents writing his novel The Satanic Verses, he still gets executed, but his family can keep their inheritance.

That must be what they mean when they say Islam is a religion of “tolerance.”