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The much-maligned Taliban have managed the affairs of Afghanistan quite well despite extreme external pressure, especially from the US (refusing to pay its $10 billion reserves) and Pakistan that has closed its border with the landlocked country. The Taliban have found new outlets.

Children are the most vulnerable segment of society. During war, they suffer the most. Two case studies are examined—Iraq and Palestine—although in other locales their plight is equally grim. The aggressors take sadistic pleasure in killing children. Palestinian children are especially targeted.

The Bedouin rulers of UAE are extremely hostile to any expression of Islam as a political system. The Ikhwan (Muslim Brotherhood) are their special target. They have now extended their hostile campaign to Europe alleging that the Brotherhood plan to take it over.

Missionaries, orientalists and other hostile creatures have spent their lifetime trying to distort the Sirah of the Prophet (ﷺ) and failed. The greater failure lies with the Muslims, by omission. By failing to see the larger picure, they are missing out on the totality of the Sirah.

In this continuous series of articles, Mohamed Ousman places authority in the context of obedience to Allah and His Prophet. No human being can operate outside this framework and claim legitimacy.

In this concluding article of the 8-part series, bay‘ah, governance, and the Islamic Movement are compared with liberal democratic legitimacy theory. There are fundamental differences between the two.