Editing Caliphate (section)

=== Al-Qaeda's caliphate goals ===
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[[Al-Qaeda]] has as one of its clearly stated goals the re-establishment of a caliphate.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm |title=Ladin |publisher=fas.org |access-date=5 June 2011 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604101231/http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> Its former leader, Osama bin Laden, called for Muslims to "establish the righteous caliphate of our umma".<ref>Interview (21 October 2001) from bin Laden, ''Message to the World'', Verso, 2005, p. 121</ref> [[Al-Qaeda]] chiefs released a statement in 2005, under which, in what they call "phase five" there will be "an [[Islamic state]], or caliphate".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/alqaeda-chiefs-reveal-world-domination-design/2005/08/23/1124562861654.html |title=Al-Qaeda chiefs reveal world domination design |publisher=Theage.com.au |date=24 August 2005 |location=Melbourne |access-date=1 October 2010 |archive-date=28 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228090853/http://www.theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/alqaeda-chiefs-reveal-world-domination-design/2005/08/23/1124562861654.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Al-Qaeda has named its Internet newscast from [[Iraq]] "The Voice of the Caliphate".<ref>{{cite news |first=Karl |last=Vick |date=14 January 2006 |title=Reunified Islam: Unlikely but Not Entirely Radical |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301816.html |archive-date=11 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011081130/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301816.html |url-status=live |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref> According to author and Egyptian native [[Lawrence Wright]], [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]], bin Laden's mentor and al-Qaeda's second-in-command until 2011, once "sought to restore the caliphate... which had formally ended in 1924 following the dissolution of the [[Ottoman Empire]] but which had not exercised real power since the thirteenth century." Zawahiri believes that once the caliphate is re-established, Egypt would become a rallying point for the rest of the Islamic world, leading the ''jihad'' against the West. "Then history would make a new turn, God willing", Zawahiri later wrote, "in the opposite direction against the empire of the United States and the world's Jewish government".<ref>Wright, 46.</ref>