The Clash of Civilizations in the Time of Shakespeare by Adrian Morgan

[A little historical perspective on the problem of Islam. It's a long read but well worth the effort. Islams quest to conquer the west has been and is ongoing. It isn't radical Islam or some other euphamism, its Islam and it will not stop of its own accord in its intention to destroy western civilization.]

Anyone with only a passing interest in Islamic affairs will be aware of the term "Caliphate." The last Caliphate, that of the Ottomans, was officially abolished on March 3, 1924, on the orders of the secular government of Turkey. Islamists glamorize the Caliphate as something "good," but in its last years, the Ottoman Caliphate was bloated and corrupt. It gave rise to the Armenian genocide under Sultan Abdul-Hamid II. From the early 16th Century onwards, the Sultan of the Ottomans was also the Caliph. On November 1, 1922 the Sultanate was officially abolished and the deposed Abdul-Hamid lost his title of Caliph. 18 days later Abdul-Hamid’s cousin was inaugurated as Abdulmecid II the very last Caliph.

A year earlier the Topkapi Palace, which had formerly been the seat of the Ottoman Sultans, had been turned into a museum. A color photograph taken for Albert Kahn's "Archive of the Planet" project, using the Lumiere brothers' autochrome process, was taken on November 24, 1922 in the palace. It features the gigantic throne upon which the Sultans had sat.

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