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Actually, you've tended more toward using conjecture and your own baseless assumptions. Like most who attempt to criticize Islam, you're guilty of confirmation bias to an extreme degree.
...The difference being that some sort of Caliphate existed for over 1,000 years and many of the states that have used a form of this model have been some of history's most successful (Rashidun, 'Abbasid, pre-Selim II Ottoman Empire, etc.) Your arguments regarding 'conditions' are groundless and asinine since not even the worst and most immoral leaders in these societies did anything that wasn't also common practice among their Christian contemporaries. To which form of government should it be compared? American 'democracy'? The United States disenfranchised a large portion of its population on the basis of race until just over 40 years ago. The sort of society you champion has the same history of misinterpretation and depravity and is no more immune to criticism. Approach the subject without bias or preconceptions and this will become apparent.
Actions and practices you attribute to 'Muslims' are immaterial to discussions of the religion itself unless it can be established that a particular action had a firm basis in a legitimate reading of scripture. The Qur'an isn't responsible for everything those who read it happen to do -- your arguments will fall flat until you realize this and attempt to criticize the religion on more legitimate grounds.
When you put forward ridiculous arguments, I treat them with the low amount of respect I feel that they deserve.
'Evidence' that has yet to make an appearance and any of your posts. Yawn.
Denial is not just a river.
I accept your concession.
It is insane to accept that which is not given in discussion Kalam. There is no concession in this post that I can see.
Yet you accept concessions that are not given? Kind of like Muslim honor in war? Hudna Kalam? Set for ten years and re-arm. Then create an event by the other side and attack after two years of hudna (truce)?
True fail.
You do not come here to discuss. You come here to do no more than obfuscate, minimize and form a pretense of Muslims and how they practice Islam.