Why don't Muslims rule the world?

As noted in our video “What is the best explanation for Abrahamic religions?” the endgame for Islam is the restoration of the Caliphate of Hasan through the Mahdi, who will give charity in abundance, satisfying everyone’s needs (Mishkat al-Masabih 27:76). The Messiah will rise to power in tandem and send everyone back to their native lands (Ibn Majah 36:156). This is different from the Jewish expectation that gentiles will become their slaves (Shabbat 32b:6). The term Mawali, by contrast, means a free person. It also differs from the Christian expectation that Jesus will rapture believers in the clouds while those “left behind” will suffer the apocalypse. Islam, however, has a centuries-old problem with Iznogouds, as this video explains. The two most powerful regimes in the Middle East today—namely, Saudi Arabia and Iran—were established by pseudo-Mahdist movements in 1979. As history shows, the main thrust of power politics in the Islamicate has not been to replace people and cultures, but to be “caliph instead of the caliph”. Indeed, all Muslims are native to their countries, except Anatolian Turks, who invaded the Middle East in the 13th c. and, after destroying the Abbasid caliphate, converted to Islam and styled themselves as Caliphs in lieu of the Abbasids. Indeed, Islam has grown to such an extent that it now has the numbers and resources to rule the world. This prompts the question why it doesn’t, which this video answers in some detail by considering some external factors such as competing powers and paradigms, as well as internal factors like its historical development and community rule. The success or failure of a paradigm ultimately depends on biological laws that determine the persistence or growth, or the death or degeneration, of the organism that is the community it represents. As for liberalism, which encompasses the other competing paradigms, the saying is sufficient that civilizations start with stoicism and end in hedonism, to which it is synonymous. Its underlying precept, “Do as thou wilt” ("You will not surely die"), is deleterious. Christianity, for its part, seems to have succumbed to death by a thousand sects since the Reformation. To be clear, the purpose of this video is not to make an apology for or against any legal system, but to explain and predict the present and future of law on a rational basis.

0:26 Superpowers and ideologies
2:25 Analysis
10:16 Looking forward
13:27 Looking back
16:51 Why don’t Muslims rule the world?
22:03 Conclusion