Destruction of the Khilafah

“The point at issue is that Turkey has been destroyed and shall never rise again, because we have destroyed her spiritual power: the Khilafah and Islam.”

Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary, after the abolishment of the Khilafah by Mustafa Kemal

Caliphate - the Western nightmare

What in your opinion are the principal threats of the age? – He answered - “First, is what we call terrorism in the United States, but which is really the uprising of radical Islam against the secular world, and against the democratic world, on behalf of re-establishing a sort of Caliphate. That is directed as much against moderate Islam, than it is against non-Islamic societies.”

Hindustan Times Interview with Henry Kissinger, Nov 2004

Islam transcends the bounds of country

[T]he call of Islam is one which transcends the bounds of country. It may have lost some force as a result of the abolition of Caliphate by Mustafa Kamal Pasha, but it still has a very considerable appeal as witness for example Jinnah’s insistence on our giving undertaking that Indian troops should never be employed against any Muslim state, and the solicitude which he has constantly expressed for the Arabs of Palestine.

March 24, 1940, Lord Zetland, British Secretary of State for the colonial India

Sultan Abdul Hameed Rebuffs Herzl

“Advise Dr. Herzl not to take any further steps in his project. I can not give away a handful of the soil of this land for it is not my own, it is for all the Islamic Nation. The Islamic Nation that fought Jihad for the sake of this land and they have watered it with their blood. The Jews may keep their money and millions. If the Islamic Khalifah State is one day destroyed then they will be able to take Palestine without a price! But while I am alive, I would rather push a sword into my body than see the land of Palestine cut and given away from the Islamic State. This is something that will not be, I will not start cutting our bodies while we are alive.”

Sultan Abdul Hameed’s refusal to see Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement

Turkey ripe for missionary advance

“Turkey presents today the most promising and challenging field on the face of the earth for missionary service.” Thus wrote James L. Barton, missionary executive, in last week’s issue of ‘Christian Work.’ But first he summarized the revolutionary changes in Turkey since 1923. The changes: For a hundred years Christian missionaries have struggled hopelessly to capture the hearts of the Calif-awed Turks. They had come, said Mr. Barton, to suspect that “the Moslem was outside the sphere of the operation of divine grace.” (www.syariahpublications.com)
TIME February 15, 1926, pp. 15-16