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Originally Posted by amalekite
United Arab States...well, sort of.....
Before the breakup of the Ottoman empire...Islam was united under a Caliphate
The Caliphate was the Muslim equivalent of a Catholic Pope. He was a religious leader and provided a single voice to unite all of Islam.
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And I guess he rules the same way as the Pope, with love and kindness and the only army he had were equippend with spikes and wore baggy trousers.
Whoops, back to reality.
Read here about how effective Muslim Empires were.
They were dominated by an iron hand and fell apart from within.