Caliphism

It is evident from history, that this apprent concentration of the insignia of Caliphism round the Ottoman throne, had not been before wanted for the firm establishment of the Sultan; also, that it since has in no wise added the slightest circumstance of sacredness to his right or person.

Of all the emotions, impatience is perhaps the easiest to manipulate; and there are all too many people in Iraq to drop a suggestion, here and there, of embezzlement, to hint that the ruling conservatives are following the old, rapacious road of the pashas, and that the time is near for a convulsion to remove all vestiges of caliphism and feudalism from the society of Iraq.

As that campaign seeks to do, fighting ISIS means delegitimizing Caliphism at home and abroad.